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property is kept in the general Experiment Station Office and duplicate cards 

 are sent to the different departments containing the information with reference 

 to departmental Station property. 



All of the Station cuts that have been used in publications have been filed 

 in suitable cabinets with card references bearing a reproduction of each cut 

 with a place for suitable records, in case for any reason, it is necessary to 

 remove any of the cuts from their proper place in the filing cabinet . 



New sets of filing binders have been placed in the Station library for holding 

 in temporary bindings, publications as they are received from other Stations, 

 where they are kept in proper sequence and from which they cannot be readily 

 removed or misplaced until secured in the permanent bindings. An attempt 

 is being made to keep on file complete and up-to-date sets of Station literature, 

 Government and other important publications in uniform bindings. 



Our mailing list has increased quite rapidly during the biennial. We have 

 added over 2,500 names to the permanent mailing list of the Station. These 

 names have been placed on stencils so that they may be used in the addressing 

 machine. 



A change has been made in the system of keeping Hatch and Adams accounts 

 that will allow for the separating of the Hatch and Adams sales accounts 

 from the general miscellaneous account of the Station. It is the practice 

 now to have all of the money received from sales used, so far as possible, 

 directly in the interests of that particular Hatch or Adams Fund project 

 that is responsible for creating the Sales Fund. We have found this plan, 

 while requiring a little more work in the office, has been decidedly in the 

 interests of the more efficient use of Station funds. 



Land for Experimental Purposes. 



One of the most serious handicaps to the work of the New Hampshire 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at the present time is the lack of sufficient 

 land suitable for conducting field investigations. 



The soil on the College farm is variable as to its composition and uneven 

 to such an extent that satisfactory field tests are practically impossible. 

 Aside from the plots upon which long-time fertilizer tests on grass are being 

 conducted, there is no land upon the College farm that is well adapted to 

 experimental purposes. There is no soil on the College farm that is suitable 

 for growing large crops of either corn or potatoes even though it were uniform 

 in composition and level enough to permit its use for experimental work. 

 This lack of good farm land adapted to investigation is a very serious handi- 

 cap to the work of the Station and accounts in a large measure at least for 

 the Station not having under way a larger number of field tests. Not only 

 is the College farm lacking in land answering the requirements mentioned 

 above, but there is apparently no land possessing such qualifications within 

 reasonable distance of the College that can be purchased or rented. 



New Hampshire agriculture bears ample testimony to the need for conduct- 

 ing cultivation tests and crop rotation investigations which will help to solve 

 the real agricultural problem, which is to maintain and increase the fertility, 

 and hence the productive power of our soils more economically. The average 



