Annual Report Of The Director Of The New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station 1949 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Agricultural Research in New Hamphire: Annual Report of Director of New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1934 With a considerable body of knowledge of agricultural problems behind us, each decade still develops new questions which press for solution. The past few years have been a time of trial for the farmers of the state. The economic situation seems to have national and international implications - a sort of universal wave length which reaches to the last farm. The increased cost of grains, for example, has raised questions as to the possibility of raising more of our own feed stuffs. The influx of many new part-time and subsistence operators has resulted in specialized questions as to effective procedure for this new clientele. Meanwhile, new processes, new trends in the world at large are constantly reshaping the demand for our farm products. It is most fortunate that we have been able to carry on economic investigations during the past ten years. These studies have helped greatly to throw light on the unwieldy questions of marketing and economic production. The increasing importance of engineering problems has also been evident, and the need for much more work in this field is clear. The various fields of knowledge are becoming so specialized that there is more need than ever for a cooperative attack on many problems. We are finding it more and more advisable to get the combined viewpoints of specialists in different fields, and an increasing number of our research projects are now being prosecuted on a cooperative basis between different departments. There are similar opportunities between the Experiment Stations of the different states in this region. The northeastern Station directors have been cooperating in an attempt to coordinate research and to combine forces where feasible; and regional conferences of various specialists are proving of more and more importance. We are happy to announce that during the past year our chemical technique has been perfected for the determination of plant nutrients in soils. It is now possible to learn more about state soil samples than ever before, and to give more definite recommendations as to fertilizer treatment and soil management. Requests for this service are already increasing rapidly and are threatening to swamp our available facilities. The soil fertility studies of the last few years are already indicating important, facts as to soil management, and we now expect, through the cooperation of the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture, to begin next spring the long needed reconnaissance soil survey of the state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.