BULLETIN 199 



DIGGING UP FACTS 

 FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE FARMS 



A Brief Survey of Some of the Research Work Conducted at 

 the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station 



Agriculture does an annual business in New Hampshire esti- 

 mated at $40,000,000. 



It represents an investment of $118,000,000. 



If conceivably its affairs could be run on a centralized basis like 

 that of the large industrial concerns, it would not hesitate to 

 spend one per cent of its annual output for research work. This 

 would amount to $400,000. One of these concerns, for example, 

 itself partially engaged in agricultural work, reports that it 

 spends an average of $2,000,000 a year for research work, and 

 finds itself well repaid for so doing. 



There is hardly a large business concern in the country which 

 does not have its trained staff of investigators constantly at work 

 on problems which will modify the future conduct of its affairs. 

 To ascertain the truth of this statement the Experiment Station 

 recently asked a large number of such concerns what amount of 

 money they planned to spend each year for research work. Not 

 a single one of them replied that they did not make such an ap- 

 propriation ; but on the contrary each stated that they spent sub- 

 stantial sums for a scientific study ^ of the factors that influence 

 their business. On the preceding page are quotations from some 

 of these replies. 



Just as the directors of a large commercial concern call in their 

 research workers to consider questions which directly affect their 

 business, so farmers of the state turn to the Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station with questions which mean the difference between 

 profit and loss to them. 



