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Published: 2015-08-05

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Excerpt from Progress of Agricultural Experiments 1926: A Report of the Director of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1926, Including a Financial Statement for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1926 The broadening out of research work into the field of agricultural economics has perhaps been the outstanding feature of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station's first year of additional help from the Purnell Fund. This appropriation, made available by act of Congress in 1925, has for the first time made it possible for the Station to investigate such problems as the economic balance between production and consumption of food stuffs grown in the State, the trends of production, the costs of growing various crops under New Hampshire conditions, and the important marketing problems which during recent years have been of more and more concern to people interested in the agricultural welfare of the State. As a ground work for investigation of this type it was considered advisable to concentrate during the past year on the completion of an economic survey which we believe has the distinction of being the first state-wide survey of its kind that has been made in this country. The study reached into every section of New Hampshire, securing records from practically every retail store as well as a large percent of the hotels and camps. The results have already been set forth in Station Bulletin No. 222, "Can New Hampshire Produce More of What She Eats?" The study has raised several interesting questions; for example, it was found that over 300,000 bushels of potatoes, nearly half of those marketed in the state, are shipped in during the competing season when local grown potatoes could be sold. Whether certain types of farms cannot efficiently produce this crop by the use of improved methods in competition with outside areas, is one of the questions which we are now pursuing. Another important problem raised by the study deals with the possibility of producing poultry and vegetables for the White Mountain hotel trade. With many crops it was surprising to find how nearly the demand is at present supplied by locally grown products. The importance of knowing the facts regarding these questions is obvious. It is only by patient research that a true picture of the situation as regards production and marketing is possible. During recent years it has been possible for the Station to carry on more of its investigations throughout the state as a whole. So much of the research work has been of necessity conducted at headquarters in Durham that many people have perhaps not realized the state-wide significance of the work; but there is now a noticeable increase in the amount of territory over which it spreads. The investigators conducting the economic survey went into most of even the small towns in 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.