Agricultural Research in 

 New Hampshire 



Annual Report of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station 



1935 



J. C. KENDALL, Director 



This past year marked the twenty-fifth of the present administration of 

 the New Hampshire Agricuhural Experiment Station ; and a summary of 

 some of the important results of the period was published in Bulletin 287, 

 entitled "Twenty-Five Years of Agricultural Research." The present re- 

 port, therefore, will confine itself merely to the current year. 



The Station is now operating 7^ different projects in the fields of Agri- 

 cultural Economics, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural and Biological 

 Chemistry, Animal Husbandry, Agronomy, Botany, Dairy Husbandry, En- 

 tomology, Forestry, Horticulture, and Poultry Husbandry. 



A notable advance in popular support of agricultural experiment stations 

 is signalled in the passage by Congress of the Bankhead-Jones Act. While 

 New Hampshire's Station allotment under this appropriation is small, 

 amounting to only $2,089.30, the fund sets up a system of regional research, 

 in which the various state experiment stations will cooperate with the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. Development of regional and national 

 projects has been evident during recent years. 



Through cooperation with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration 

 it has been possible to make a much more definite map of the type of farming 

 areas of the state than has ever before been possible. 



A cooperative study in milk marketing has also been developed on a 

 regional basis with the other New England experiment stations and with the 

 Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. Preliminary work has already been completed outlining the 

 program, the general purpose of which is to discover possible improvements 

 in marketing methods, practices and facihties and possible improvements in 

 methods of public control. 



Our soils program is now achieving the firm scientific basis which it 

 has so long needed. During the year we were able to begin, in cooperation 

 with the U. S. Bureau of Soils, a detailed survey of the better farming areas 

 of*the state, combined with a reconnaissance survey of the wooded and 

 poorer areas. The work has been completed in Grafton and Sullivan 

 counties. Sixty-six different soil types have been found thus far, involving 

 25 different series and 19 phases. Meanwhile improvements in laboratory 

 technique make it possible to give fairly definite recommendations as to soil 

 management. 



The northeastern experiment stations have agreed to develop special 

 regional studies of pasture improvement. The details of this program are 

 now being worked out. 



