June, 1919] ANNUAL REPORTS. 13. 



Vakiety Tests of Field Beans. 

 Twelve varieties of field beans were grown with yields as high as eighteen, 

 bushels per acre. The yellow-eye and red kidney gave the best results. 



Variety Tests of Small Grains. 



The following small grains were sown on one-thirtieth acre plots in the 

 spring of 1918: 



1 . Three varieties of spring wheat ; 



2. Four varieties of barle}^; 



3. Thirteen varieties of oats; 



4. Eight varieties of winter wheat. 



The average yield of the wheats w^as 18 bu. per acre, and the best was the 

 Marquis with 22.1 bu. The average of the barleys was 46.5 bu. per acre; the 

 largest was Vermont Champion, a two-row sort yielding 49.5 bu. The oats 

 proved an exceptional and fine crop. The thirteen varieties yielded 53.6 to 

 86 bu. per acre, "Swedish Select" standing highest with "Worthy" second. 

 The w-eight per bushel of all but two of the varieties was 32 lbs. or over. 



The varieties of winter wheat were sown in the fall of 1918. Two of these 

 were being sold by New England seedsmen and six of them were high yielding 

 sorts secured from the Ohio Experiment Station. The object of the test was 

 to determine the most promising variety for local production. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL 



HUSBANDRY. 



e. g. ritzman. 

 DEPARTMENT ORGANIZATION. 



Owing to the basis on w-liich this Department is operating it has had only 

 two regular or permanent employees, namely, an animal husbandman and a 

 shepherd. In view of this Hmitation in assistance, both in the office and out- 

 side, a considerable amount of work has been done by hiring extra day labor. 



In this Department there is no division of time betw-een Station and CoUege 

 w^ork as all of the time of the force is primarily given to Station work. 



Correspondence has been mainly of a routine nature such as answering 

 letters asking for information on management, feeding, etc., of live stock. A 

 considerable amount of correspondence has been engaged in by the animal 

 husbandman in the capacity of secretary-treasurer of the New Hampshire 

 Sheep Breeders' Association. This consists in a large measure of answering 

 letters asking for information on management and breeding of sheep. Prob- 

 ably less than one-tenth time has been necessary for all correspondence. 



Field work was also done in the form of lectures given in behalf of the 

 emergency food production campaign. 



Three technical articles were pubhshed during the year. Two of these, 

 namely, on "Nature and Rate of Growth in Lambs," and on "Family Per- 

 formance as a Basis for Selection in Sheep," were printed in the Journal of 



