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NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

 New Hampshire College Agricultural Experiment Station, Durham. 

 Department of New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Control: John G. Tallant (Chair.), Pembroke; Henry W. Keyes, Haverhill; 

 George A. Wason, New Boston; Charles W. Stone (Sec.), Andover; Charles S. Murk- 

 land (Pres.), Durham. 



STATION STAFF. 



Charles S. Murkland, M. A., Ph. D., President of the College. 

 W. D. Gibbs, M. S., Dir.; Agr. A. Williams, Asst. in Dairy Husb. 



Fred W. Morse, M. S., V. Dir.; Chem. Clarence M. Weed, D. Sc, Ent. 



Frank W. Rane, B. Agr., M. S., Hort. Harry A. Clark, B. S., Asst. Chem. 

 Charles H. Pettee, M. A., C. E., Met. A. F. Conradi, Asst. Ent. 



Herbert H. Lamson, M. D., Bact. Frederick C. Keith, Clerk. 



Harry F. Hall, Gardener. 



LINES OF WOKK. 



The lines of work pursued at the New Hampshire Station during the 

 past year have been much the same as in previous years. Attention- 

 has been given mainly to the study of silage and the ripening of fruits; 

 field experiments, including tests of forage crops, rotation, tillage, 

 and methods of using barnyard manure; feeding experiments with 

 horses and dairy cows, including the keeping of individual dairy records; 

 horticultural investigations, including tests of varieties of corn, pota- 

 toes, strawberries, and tomatoes, and experiments in forcing green- 

 house crops; study of plant diseases and the bacteria and fungi causing 

 changes in silage and the deca}^ of fruits; entomological investigations, 

 including experiments in the suppression of insect pests and studies of 

 the life zones of the principal insects of the State; and the continuation 

 of the comparison of different grades of gravel for roads. 



The station is continuing chemical and bacteriological studies of 

 apples with reference to the keeping qualities of different varieties, 

 causes of decay, etc. , under commercial cold-storage conditions. It is 

 also making experiments in the improvement of old pasture lands and 

 studies of the origin of red-clover seed in cooperation with the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry of this Department. It continues to cooperate with 

 the State board of agriculture in the inspection of fertilizers and the 

 enforcement of laws relating to oleomargarine, but under a law passed 

 by the State legislature, approved February 20, 1901, the inspection of 

 oleomargarine and other food products, water supplies, milk, etc. , will 

 henceforth be in charge of the State Laboratory of Hygiene. The same 

 legislature also amended the fertilizer law, making it conform more 

 closely with the laws enforced in other New England States, and 

 passed an act to regulate the sale of concentrated commercial feeding 



