AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN 

 NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1930 



Report of the New Hampshire Agricultural 

 Experiment Station 



J. C. KENDALL, Director 



In a period of economic depression such as we have been going through 

 for the past year the importance of research work becomes even more 

 obvious. There must be a body of reliable information on which to 

 base decisions; and without such information, we are more likely in 

 times of stress than ever before to be washed away from our moorings. 



Especially valuable is it to have data on economic phases. Questions 

 on costs of production, on marketing, on land utilization, on farm man- 

 agement, on cooperative finance come to the fore. And the agricultural 

 experiment stations of the country are convinced that the economic 

 studies, made possible by the Purnell legislation, have come none too 

 quickly. 



In this connection it may be well to point out that agriculture as a 

 whole pays much less for research than do other important industries 

 of- the country. According to a pamphlet issued by the Division of En- 

 gineering and Industrial Research of the National Research Council, 

 expenditures for research made by millionaire manufacturing compan- 

 ies in the United States averaged about $13 for each $1,000 capital 

 invested. Included in the list were automobile, chemical, food, steel, 

 leather, lumber, metal-working, paper, rubber and textile industries. On 

 the other hand the survey of land-grant colleges and universities re- 

 cently made by the United States Department of the Interior indicates 

 that the expenditures of state and federal agencies for agricultural re- 

 search amount to about 43.5 cents for each $1,000 of capital invested 

 in agricultural production. Industry is about 30 times as solicitous as 

 as agriculture for research, according to these figures. 



Among important new projects recently started were a wholesale milk 

 farm study in the Woodsville-Haverhill area and studies of the time 

 of cutting hay. All told, 77 projects are now in process of investiga- 

 tion. Significant results during the year are reported in the following 

 pages. 



New publications were issued during the year as follows: 



Bulletin 245 — Inspection of Commercial Feeding Stuffs 1929. 

 246— Results of Seed Tests for 1929. 

 247 — The White Pine Weevil in New Hampshire. 

 248 — Inspection of Commercial Fertilizers for 1929. 

 249 — Roadside Marketing in New Hampshire. 

 250— Agricultural Experiments 1929. 



251 — Operating Costs of Retail Grain Stores in New Hamp- 

 shire. 



