REPORT OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRI- 

 CLLTLIRAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



For the Biennium Ending June 30, 1920. 



In spite of the fact that, so far as finances are concerned, the past two years 

 were ones of extreme stringency, due to the inflated currency and the availa- 

 bility only of Federal appropriations, the New Hampshire Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station can report the maintenance of all of its projects. 



It has been necessary to curtail the work in many important particulars in 

 order to "live on the same income" as before the war, however, and were it 

 not for the prospect of aid from state sources in the near future, the outlook 

 for the maintenance of research work in agriculture in the state would be a 

 serious one. 



It is gratifying to know that, hand in hand with the development of extension 

 work in the state, there has come a deeper appreciation of the value of the 

 research activities which are fundamental to the success of any state-wide 

 agricultural program. People are beginning to reahze, as never before, that 

 the peculiar problems of New Hampshire's farming should be put under the 

 microscope, and all knowledge possible gleaned from the study. It has, of 

 course, not been possible to conduct all of the research projects with this end 

 in view, since the Adams projects under the provisions of the Federal act have 

 to do specifically with the fundamental principles of agricultural science _ 

 Here, too, we beheve that the New Hampshire Station is not in any way to be 

 ashamed of the contribution which it is making, along with the other experi- 

 ment stations of the country, toward those deeper problems which affect the 

 farm business of the whole nation, and of the world. 



Projects. 



Projects have been carried on as follows: 



Adams Fund. 



Department of Animal Husbandry. 



(a) Nutrition Studies. 



(b) Sheep Breeding. 



Department of Botany. 



(a) Relative Adhesiveness of the Copper Fungicides. 



(b) Studies on the Effect of Fungicides and Insecticides on Plants. 



(c) A Study of the Toxic Action of Fungicides to Parasitic Fungi. 



(d) Relation of Potassium to Growth in Plants (in co-operation with the 



Department of Agricultural Chemistry). 



Department of Chemistnj. 



(a) Plant Metabolism Studies. 



(b) Relation of Light to Fruit Production (in co-operation with the 



Department of Horticulture). 



(c) Method for the Determination of Arsenic (as part of the project, 



Studies on the Effect of Fungicides and Insecticides on Plants, in 

 co-operation with the Botany Department.) 



