Nov., 1910.] W'N'UAL REPORTS. 31 



Needs of the Department. 



Assistance. — I recommend that an assistant be appointed to have charge 

 of the work in the greenhouses involved in the several experimental projects, 

 which from time to time may require the use of the greenhouses; and that 

 a graduate student assistant be employed to assist in carrying out the details 

 of many of the projects under way. 



I'* rmaru ut Improvements. — The department is much in need of a cool 

 and cold storage house provided with the proper packing rooms for vegetables 

 and fruits. The need of adequate storage for [vegetables has never been 

 tieated in an experimental way by any agricultural experiment station. The 

 cold storage of fruits has received attention from four experiment stations 

 in other states, but has not been adequately touched upon by this Experiment 

 Station. The writer believes that the practicability of a storage house using 

 wood, paper and dead air spaces as insulating materials and ice as a refrigerant 

 should be demonstrated for the benefit of the orchan lists of this state, who at 

 the present time are compelled to unload their fruits at harvesting time at 

 such prices as the dealers may choose to set. 



The most important need of the Department of Horticulture is suitable 

 land on which to carry out experimental work. There does not exist on the 

 farm of the New Hampshire College any area of land sufficiently large, of 

 uniform physical character or content of fertility to be suitable for the obtain- 

 ing of accurate results from variety tests, fertilizer experiments, methods of 

 cultivation, or other experimental data immediately connected with the culture 

 of crops of the garden or the orchard. This is a matter of such importance 

 that it cannot be too strongly emphasized in this report. The remedy must 

 consist in the lease or purchase of suitable areas of land for the purpose of 

 experimentation. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL 



HUSBANDRY. 



T. R. ARKELL. 



Organization and Equipment. 



Experimental work in this department is confined entirely to investigations 

 in the breeding and feeding of sheep. Owing to the lack of proper accommo- 

 dations it is not possible to maintain hogs. Before effective experimental 

 work can be accomplished with hogs, it is necessary that a suitable hog-barn 

 be erected, since at the present time no building whatever is provided for 

 this purpose. This department also has crying need for a poultry plant. 

 The high prices for eggs and dressed poultry that prevail in the state through- 

 out the entire year and the proximity to the great Boston market make poult ry 

 raising a most important industry. The Experiment Station can be of little 

 material assistance in this regard to fanners in the Btate unless it be equipped 

 with a poultry plant wherein investigations may be pursued to discover 

 methods of management most adaptable to New Hampshire conditions. 



