Annual Report Of The Director Of The New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station For Year 1930 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Agricultural Research in New Hampshire: Annual Report of the Director of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1931 In times such as these every public agency must feel more keenly than ever the duty to fulfill its public trust: to return to the general good a greater sum in ultimate values than it has taken out. Such return is often difficult to measure accurately, especially in the research field, where we must often grope and fail. But it is only through constant experimentation that agriculture has advanced to its present levels, and only by the same means can we continue to progress. If public research seems costly, one may well consider how much more expensive and frequently impossible is research on the part of the individual farmer. And if public research seems inconclusive at times, it must be remembered that the observations of lone and untrained men would be hopelessly so. Civilization is committed to the laboratory and to trained research; and the pathway ahead out of economic depression would only be the darker if they were withdrawn. The past year has seen several important projects to a stage where conclusions could be drawn; among them, our economic fruit farm studies, the survey of Grafton County dairy farms, Boston milk consumption study, contact-insecticide project, study of root growth of white pine, studies in human nutrition, land utilization study, spray residues project, head lettuce investigation, etc. The following pages will give some details as to the significant results of the year. In the meantime it has been possible to develop several important new studies. 'The dairy situation in New England is acute, and one of the pivotal questions is the relative cost of Grade A as compared with Grade B milk. We are conducting a study of the practices and factors affecting marketing costs and quality of product. Of equal importance to the dairy industry should be a series of efficiency studies in the Connecticut Valley, dealing with dairy farm organization and production practices. With the completion of these projects, as well as of the Grafton County survey, previously noted, the Experiment Station should be in a position to give new counsel that will be welcome to many dairymen throughout the state. Other new investigations deal with coccidiosis of chickens, which has proved one of the most menacing of poultry diseases during recent years; and further development of the land utilization question; a beginning of definite Record of Performance work for poultry breeders was also made. The staff suffered a real loss during the year in the death of Philip R. Lowry, assistant entomologist, who had been with us for ten years and who died suddenly April 29 while engaged in his laboratory work. 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.