88 NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE 



DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY AND 

 AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING 



1895-'96. 



I. Meteorology 



Regular observations of temperature, pressure, and weather 

 have been carried on the past year, as begun the previous year 

 and described in the last annual report. Weather flags have 

 also been regularly displayed and during the summer mouths an 

 extra set of nags has been loaned to Mr. Arioch W. Griffiths, 

 who has displayed them from a tower on a hill near his resi- 

 dence at Packer's Falls. By the aid of a telescope he has read 

 the sigual-flags on the tower of the experiment station building, 

 about two miles distant. The siguals, as displayed in this 

 locality, have been of service to an important farming section 

 of this town, as well as to portions of Lee and Newmarket. 



A few months since, a weather bulletin board was placed in 

 position in the lower hall of the experiment station building, 

 upon which the most important weather changes and reports 

 are daily recorded for the benefit of the station staff. 



Mr. James A. Foord, New Hampshire College, class of '98, 

 has continued in charge of observations to the satisfaction of 

 the department. During the summer vacation his duties were 

 performed by Arthur Given, also of the class of '98. 



The detailed record of observations taken will be found in 

 the appendix. 



II. Agricultural Engineering 



This department has been called on by other departments of 

 the station for a few surveys during the year but the most of 

 its energy has been expended upon experimental road work. 

 Grading and surfacing in different ways was carried on during 

 portions of the summer upon a section of the highway, in front 

 of the college property, about seven hundred feet in length. 

 Through the kindness of Mr. M. H. Harlow, representing the 

 Ingersoll-Sargeaut Drill Co., a steam drill has been loaned the 



