May, 1921] BIENNIAL REPORT. 5 



Personnel. 



During the past year the staff was maintained practically intact until the 

 close of the year, when the resignations of W. H. Wolff, Assistant Horticul- 

 turist, and F. C. Werkenthin, Assistant Botanist, were received. These posi- 

 tions were filled shortly afterward by S. W. Wentworth and W. L. Doran, 

 respectively. Since the close of the year, the Station has suffered a loss in the 

 resignation of J. H. Gourley, Horticulturist, whose work in the Adams Fruit 

 Bud Formation project has been particularly noteworthy. His position has 

 now been filled by Mr. George F. Potter, formerly of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin. The position of station chemist, which had been vacant for some time, 

 was filled October 25, 1919, by the appointment of Dr. H. R. Ivraybill of the 

 Division of Horticulture and Pomology of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. The work in the chemical laboratory has grown to an extent 

 demanding the services of an assistant chemist, and Mr. C. P. Spaeth has been 

 appointed. During the previous year the position of assistant agronomist was 

 filled by Mr. M. Gale Eastman, and that of executive secretary by Mr. H. B. 

 Stevens. 



Publications. 



The high cost of printing has materially affected the number of publications 

 which it is possible to issue. It was thought advisable, under the circumstances, 

 to await the close of a biennium before publishing a report on station work; 

 and several other manuscripts are on hand which, it is hoped, may be published 

 soon. The publications issued for the past two years were as follows: 



Bulletin No. 190 — Sod, Tillage and Fertilizers for the Apple Orchard, 



by J. H. Gourley. 

 Bulletin No. 182 — Cost of Raising Beef Cattle in New Hampshire, by 



E. G. Ritzman. 

 Bulletin No. 191 — Inspection of Commercial Feeding Stuffs. 

 Bulletin No. 192 — Annual Report of the Experiment Station. 

 Bulletin No. 193— Results of Seed Tests. 

 Bulletin No. 194 — Inspection of Fertihzers. 

 Circular No. 20 — Storage of Potatoes, by O. Butler. 

 Circular No. 21— Can the Farmer Mix His Own Fertilizers? by F. W. 



Taylor. 

 Circular No. 22 — Spraying for Late Blight of Potatoes, by O. Butler. 

 Technical Bulletin No. 14 — Some Fundamental Factors that Determine 



Progress in Farm Sheep Breeding, by E. G. Ritzman. 

 Technical Bulletin No. 15 — Comparison of Some Traits of Conformation 



of Southdown and Rambouillet Sheep, by E. G. Ritzman. 

 Technical Bulletin No. 16 — A Respiration Chamber for Large Domestic 



Animals, by F. G. Benedict, W. E. ColHns, Mary F. Henry, and Alice 



Johnson. 

 Scientific Contribution No. 12 — The Effect of Environment on the Loss 



of Weight and Germination of Seed Potatoes During Storage, by O. 



Butler. Journal of the American Society of Agronomy, 11: No. 3, 



114-118, March, 1919. 

 Scientific Contribution No. 13 — The Minimum, Optimum and Maximum 



Temperature of Spore Germination in Some Uredinales, by W. L. 



Doran. Phytopathology, v. IX, No. 9, Sept., 1919. 

 Scientific Contribution No. 14 — Relative Adhesiveness of the Copper 



Fungicides, by O. Butler and T. O. Smith. Phytopathology, v. IX, 



No. 10, Oct., 1919. 



