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77. Mineral Composition of Freshly Fallen White Pine and Red 

 Maple Leaves. 



78. Studies on the Bitter-pit Disease of Apples. 



79. Penetration of Oils into Insect Eggs. 



a. Influence of oil characteristics. 



b. Influence of age of egg and of species. 



Scientific Contributions 



79. Semi-micro Methods for Determining Copper Reduced by 

 Sugars. 



80. Isolation and Characteristics of Bacteriophages for Staphlo- 

 cocci in Bovine Mastitis. 



81. The Influence of Three-year Rotation and Fertilizer Treat- 

 ments on the Organic Carbon of Soils. 



82. Relation of Weather to Prevalence of Internal Cork in Apples. 



AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



Taxes, Types of Farming, Land Utilization, 

 Road Financing, Farm Purchases 



During the fiscal year sixteen research projects have been under way 

 in the Department of Agricultural Economics. Three of these were in 

 cooperation with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and under the 

 active leadership of personnel from the Bureau. Several are described 

 under other subject matter headings. 



Because of the urgent need for directing the Department's research 

 resources to help in the war effort special emphasis has been made to 

 complete the older projects. As a result ten projects including the three 

 in cooperation with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics have been 

 completed and the results are or will soon be published. With the excep- 

 tion of two projects which should be completed by the first of January, the 

 work of the Department in the coming year will be devoted to projects 

 that have a direct bearing on the war and postwar situations. 



The Department has been called upon to do many committee tasks 

 in connection with the War program. Members of the Department did 

 considerable work on the report to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics 

 on the production possibilities for 1943. 



The research projects which have been carried out by the Depart- 

 ment in the last decade have laid a foundation of economic information 

 that is very useful to committees and action agencies in planning produc- 

 tion and marketing of agricultural products in these times. 



Local Government and Taxation in New Hampshire 



The services of local government are vitally important to our rural 

 economy. Rural people can and will look for efficiency in local govern- 

 ment, to the support of which they contribute heavily. The taxable 

 wealth of all municipalities in 1941 was only 43 per cent greater than in 

 1914, but the taxes assessed against that property increased nearly three- 



