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has been so marked as to gain the unqualified support of 

 cranberr\- growers. The Market-Garden Field Station was 

 later established at North Lexington, although in the beginning 

 not on an experimental basis. The next step, logically, is to 

 go west of the Connecticut and establish an experimental sub- 

 station in the hills of western Plampshire, Franklin or Hampden 

 county. Many technical problems of production must be 

 solved before these hill farms can be brought back to their 

 old-time productive condition. 



Additional Assistants. 



An unexpected result of the organization and development of 

 the county farm bureaus has been the increased demand made 

 on the Experiment Station for service in investigating problems 

 affecting agriculture. The inability of the Station to meet 

 these demands is causing criticism. While there is no doubt 

 that much of this criticism arises from ignorance rather than 

 knowledge, yet the fact is that the farmers of the State, as 

 represented by their county agricultural agents, are more eager 

 than ever for knowledge and for facts. The Experiment Sta- 

 tion cannot ignore these demands, and is making every effort in 

 its power to meet them. At present, however, investigations 

 under way are so numerous and so important as to make it 

 almost imperative that we secure additional assistants to give 

 attention to the new problems which are constantly arising. 

 Those needed in the immediate future are as follows: — 



Assistant to the Director. 



Clerk and graduate assistant, Department of Agricultural Economics. 



Assistant research professor, Department of Botany. 



Assistant research professor. Department of Horticultural Manufactures. 



Assistant in experimental market gardening, Market-Garden Field Station. 



Assistant in experimental pomology and graduate assistant, Department 

 of Pomok)gy. 



Assistant research professor and two graduate assistants. Department of 

 Microbiology. 



Poultry pathologist, ' Department of Veterinary Science. 



Research j^rofessor and laboratory assistant. Department of Farm Man- 

 agement. 



Research professor, Department of Rural Sociology. 



Poultry pathologist ^ and collector of blood samples, Poultry Disease Law. 



1 One-half time. 



