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value in assisting to disseminate the best information obtainable where it is 

 most needed, desired, and where it would accomplish the most good. 



Cooperation and Demonstration. 



There is a large class of people in the state who are interested and engaged in 

 agricultural pursuits who will not and cannot be reached directly by the college 

 and station or its publications. It has been found that they can be reached 

 and most effectively through some form of cooperation and by means of dem- 

 onstrations that carry the work of the college and station directly to the doors 

 of the men who will use it. Seeing is believing with the average farmer, but 

 when once convinced, experience teaches, he will gladly put into execution 

 6uch methods and practices as have been shown to bring in the best results in 

 his own neighborhood on his own or similar soils. 



The station has already started in a limited way some cooperative and 

 demonstration work in different parts of the state and it has received the most 

 hearty endorsement. Many states are appropriating more money for exten- 

 sion work alone than New Hampshire appropriates for the whole institution. 

 As a result, there is in those states a wonderful agricultural awakening and 

 progress in better and more successful farming methods. It is felt that in no 

 other way can the agricultural interests of the state be better served and the 

 work of this institution become more effective, than through the aid of exten- 

 sion work. This has prompted the request which has been made for a small 

 sum of money to start this line of work in New Hampshire. 



The New Hampshire station is and has been for years, supported almost 

 entirely by federal funds and the very least thing that would seem right for the 

 state to do, is to furnish an amount at least equal to the amount of money 

 furnished by the federal government, to supplement and to extend the scope 

 and usefulness of the college and station by means of publications, introducing 

 agriculture into oui public schools and by various forms of cooperation and 

 demonstration throughout the state. 



County Demonstrations and Experimental Plots. 



It would be highly desirable if arrangements could be made so that the 

 station could have the use of a small area of land in each county, such as might 

 be found on many of our county farms, that would represent as nearly as 

 possible the type of soil most prevalent in that county. This would assist in 

 meeting the objections often raised against experiments conducted on the 

 college farm or at any other place in the state. 



For example, if it was desired to test varieties of corn as to yield and general 

 adaptability in the state, the results derived from these county test plots 

 should be much more reliable as representing conditions in the state, than if 

 conducted on one type of soil and that not typical, here at the station. 



Such an arrangement would enable the station to try out on different types 

 of soils methods of culture, fertilizing, and crop rotations, which would create 

 new centers of neighborhood interest in farming and should prove of much 

 value in determining the agricultural needs of the state and in finding the best 



means of meeting them. 



Respectfully submitted, 



JOHN C. KENDALL, 

 November 1, 1910. Director. 



