CONTENTS 



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INTRODUCTION 7 



Food for Freedom 7 



The Role of the Experiment Station 7 



Maintenance of Efficiency 8 



Changes in Personnel 9 



Publications 11 



AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 12 



Local Government and Taxation in New Hampshire 12 



Attitudes of Rural Families in Back Areas 13 



Type-of-Farming Areas in New Hampshire 14 



Land Use in Grafton County 14 



Credit Problems in Wholesale Milk Areas 15 



Financial Burden upon Rural Towns in Constructing and Maintaining 



Roads 15 



Operation of the Agricultural Conservation Program in Selected 



Areas 16 



Freezer-Locker Plants 16 



Economies in Purchases by Farmers 17 



Areas of Supply and Channels for Marketing Milk 17 



Summer Recreation 17 



DAIRYING 18 



Dry Rations for Raising Dairy Calves and Heifers 18 



Efficiency of Dairy Herd Management Practices 19 



Causes of Abnormal Relationship (Ratio) of Fat to Solids-not-fat in Milk 19 

 Relation of Conformation of Dairy Cows to Milk and Butterfat Produc- 

 tion 21 



Investigations of Bovine Mastitis 21 



FIELD CROPS AND SOILS .• 22 



Pasture Species under New Hampshire Conditions 22 



Advanced Alfalfa Nursery Trials 23 



Pasture Clearing and Management 23 



Producing Full Roughage Requirements on Dairy Farms 24 



Top-dressing Old Pasture Lands with Lime and Fertilizer 24 



Legumes on Neglected Hay Lands 24 



A Fertilizer Experiment with Dairy Farm Crops in the Connecticut 



Valley , 25 



Field Corn Trials 26 



Silage Corn Trials 26 



Dairy Farm Rotation Problems in Southern New Hampshire with 



Sweet Corn as a Cash Crop 26 



Rotation Fertility and Cultural Experiments with Potatoes 27 



Potato Seed Certification 27 



Bacterial Ring Rot of Potatoes 28 



Temperature Variations in Potato Bins 29 



Run-off, Erosion, and Methods of Control 31 



Experiments to Determine Small Grains Adapted to Better Land Use 



