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Forest Experiment Station. In one other field during the past year similar 

 interest has also been shown. The problem of the use of electricity as a farm 

 power is being attacked in several sections of the country by the National 

 Committee on the Relation of Electricity to Agriculture. With a view to 

 instituting such a study in a typical New England area this committee has 

 dm'ing the past year selected the New Hampsliire Station as its co-operating 

 partner. Plans for a research project in this hne lasting over a three-year 

 period have been outUned and agi'eed upon; and the work will start soon under 

 funds subscribed by the committee. 



Still another project in which outside aid has made possible a greater volume 

 of research work at this Station is the series of nutrition studies, can-ied on in 

 co-operation with the Nutrition Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington. This work has been outUned in previous reports. 



Diu-ing the past year the Station has lost through resignation its chemist, 

 Dr. H. R. Kraybill, who leaves New Hampshire with a considerable volume of 

 research work accomplished to take up new duties at the Boyce Thompson 

 Institute. C. P. Spaeth, assistant chemist, and J. T. Sullivan, graduate 

 assistant, also resigned during the year; and their places have been taken by 

 S. R. Shimer and H. F. Schaeffer respectively. 



The director of the Station was appointed to membership in the Forest 

 Research Council of the Northeastern States at its institution to serve for a 

 period of three years, and has thus had a voice in the formulation of the forest 

 research program aheady mentioned. He has also been appointed to a com- 

 mittee of the New England Research Council on Marketing and Food Supply 

 to draw up a New England research program in agricultural economics. 



PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS SERVICE. 



The following pubhcations have been issued during the year: 



Station Bulletin No. 209 — Inspection of Commercial Feeding Stuffs for 1923. 

 " " " 210 — Inspection of Commercial Fertilizers for 1923. 



" " 211— Results of Seed Tests for 1923. 

 " " " 212 — Progress of Agricultural Experiments, 1923 



(Report). 

 " Circular No. 23 — A Simple IVIethod for Determining the Keeping 

 Quality of Milk. 

 Technical Bulletin No. 26 — The Effect of Varying Feed Levels on the Physio- 

 logical Economy of Steers. 

 Technical Bulletin No. 27 — Experiments on Resistance of Apple Roots to Low 



Temperatures. 

 .Scientific Contribution No. 21 — Toxicity Studies with Some Copper Fungicides. 



The system of press dispatches covering results of work at the Station has 

 also been maintained, thus keeping the public informed in a non-technical way 

 of the important research accomplishments. Forty-nine articles were sent out 

 in this service during the year, and were generally printed in the press of the 

 state. 



