June, 1919] ANNUAL REPORTS. 7 



mist, left the Station to take up extension work in Ohio. In addition to the 

 above changes, Mr. Harry P. Young, Assistant Agronomist, has taken up work 

 in Farm Management at Cornell University, and Mr. W. L. Doran, Assistant 

 Botanist, resigned to take up work with the Government. Mr. E. G. Ritzman, 

 Animal Husbandman, spent a period of service at Plattsburg. It has been 

 difficult to find men to fill these vacancies and to continue some of the regular 

 Station activities. In spite of the interruptions and changes incidental to the 

 war, the regular Station program has been maintained without material change 

 that would seriously affect continuing the work when normal conditions have 

 returned. 



The College and Station have derived unexpected benefit as a result of hav- 

 ing a Voca,tional Training Detachment located at the College. Several build- 

 ings of which the institution was badly in need have been erected. A new 

 model poultry plant was built and makes a valuable addition to the equipment 

 and facihties of the Poultry Department. A new and up-to-date piggery will 

 furnish accommodations for future work in pork production. A wagon and 

 machinery shed and shop has been constructed for the Farm Department, two 

 large dormitories, a Y. M. C. A. building, an ell on the Gymnasium, additions 

 to the shops, and much needed cement walks to connect the main buildings on 

 the campus are some of the improvements which have been made this year. 



The war has helped to bring about a much closer relationship than ever 

 existed before between the members of the Experiment Station staff, the Exten- 

 sion force, and the public. There has developed a new respect and more con- 

 fidence on the part of the pubhc in established agencies and their work, since 

 they have proven their value during the national crisis. The Experiment 

 Station faces the reconstruction period with a new feeUng of confidence and 

 with the ambition to improve upon its past record of accomplishment. An 

 indication of the high regard in which New Hampshire College and its work is 

 held by the people of the state is shown by the large attendance at the Field 

 Meeting held at the College last summer, where there was an attendance of 

 over five thousand people from all parts of the state. 



The rapid development of extension activities under the stress of war con- 

 ditions has only served to emphasize the close relationship which must exist 

 between the Extension force in the field and the investigator at the Station. 

 The Extension force is . continually bringing new problems direct from the 

 farmer to the Station to be solved or explained by the trained speciaUst, and 

 the Experiment Station is freely giving from its store of accumulated knowl- 

 edge reliable advice and assistance, meanwhile attacking new problems to meet 

 new issues and to prepare for the future drafts which are sure to be made upon 

 its resources. This is as it should be, and serves to emphasize the wisdom and 

 farsightedness displayed by the authors of the Federal Hatch and Adams Acts, 

 and the more recent Smith-Lever Law which provides so well for the accumu- 

 lation of authentic information by our Experiment Stations, and a very effi- 

 cient agency, our Extension Services, through which to distribute and make 

 readily accessible where most needed the accumulated knowledge of State and 

 Federal agencies and institutions. 



WTiile War Emergency Work has retarded and interfered with the best 



