Report Of New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station For Fiscal Year Ending June 30 1918 PDF Download

Excerpt from Progress of Agricultural Experiments, 1922: A Report of the Director of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1922, Including a Financial Statement for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1922 The situation in New Hampshire has not been different from that in the rest of the nation. Farmers have found it more and more difficult to balance their expenses with milk checks and other sources of income. Long hours and tedious labor have in all too many cases made both ends meet only at the expense of soil fertility, fences, buildings, etc. There is no denying the fact that farming as a business has shown less and less of the margin of profit. At such a time research work assumes, in the eyes of those interested in future agricultural welfare, an aspect of almost desperate importance. Up on the Experiment Station devolves the responsibility for determining what methods may best decrease the cost of production and so make possible a greater margin of profit. Improvements in seed and breeding stock, con trol of plant diseases and insect pests, tests of new and old varieties under New Hampshire conditions, the determination of the best combinations of soil and fertilizer, analyses of brands, etc., have a direct bearing on this problem; and the use of information of this type has come to mean almost the difference between success and failure in farming. Through the ex tension service, as well as through bulletins and newspapers, it is now pos sible to carry quickly the results of research work at the Experiment Station into practice in the state at large. 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.