14 N. ri. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION [Bulletin 199 



Home-Grown Dairy Feeds 

 Clover for the Dairy Herd 

 Rape for Sheep 

 Breeding and Feeding of Chicks 



— and many others 



Hand in hand with the question of cutting the grain bill goes 

 another that in some respects affects it: 



HOW CAN WE GROW BETTER CROPS? 



Every year the seed catalogues are filled with lists of varieties 

 all claiming superlative rank and asserting that the buyer's money 

 should be invested in the particular brand described. No farmer 

 can afford to dodge the question of varieties; and the intelligent 

 purchaser is tempted to try them all with a view to ascertaining 

 which do the best on his particular farm. This is an expensive 

 process; and the field can be greatly limited by a state-wide sys- 

 tem of experimentation. Furthermore, trials of varieties are 

 without value unless they are conducted on a basis that insures 

 equal conditions. Through the careful tests of the Experiment 

 Station a representative list of the varieties best suited to the 

 state can be made and narrowed down by the countj^ Farm 

 Bureau, or individual farmer, to fit the particular local needs. 

 In this way all of the varieties unsuited by climatic conditions or 

 to average New Hampshire soil are eliminated. 



SOME OF THE VARIETY TESTS 



Variety tests have already been made by the Station with field 

 corn, oats, field beans, soy beans, wheat, root crops, forage crops, 

 apples, peaches, plums, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, grapes, 

 peas and tomatoes. Some of these have had a decided economic 

 importance, as, for example, the narrowing of the leadership in 

 apples to Baldwin, Mcintosh, Wealthy and Gravenstein; and the 

 variety tests with oats, corn, soy beans and tomatoes. 



It is not only a function of the Experiment Station to try out 

 different varieties but, where opportunity affords, to create new 

 ones. In this way an improved strain of ensilage corn, named 

 "New Hampshire 500," has been secured. On certain types of 



