Early Records
1885-1906
Agricultural Experiment Station
(UA 10/2/1)
Size: 1 box (.33 cubic feet)
Biography/History:
The Hatch Act, passed on March 2, 1887, authorized establishment of federal Agricultural Experiment Stations. The New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station was formed in August of 1887 as a department of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in Hanover, NH. The Station began with two departments--Dairy, and Field and Feeding. A. H. W. Wood was superintendent of the Dairy Department and G. H. Whitcher temporarily in charge of Field and Feeding. Other personnel were F. W. Morse, chemist; C. H. Pettee, meteorologist; H. H. Lamson, microscopist-photographer; a farmer; and a clerk.
The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was founded in 1866 in Hanover, NH. It was removed to Durham, NH in 1893 and became the University of New Hampshire in 1923.
Scope and Content:
This series contains documents pertaining to the establisment and early operations of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station.
| F. 1 | Items relating to the setting up of the Experiment Station, 1878-1896 |
| F. 2 | The Hatch Act, March 2, 1887 |
| F. 3 | Notes concerning the object and duties of the Experiment Station, nd |
| F. 4 | Correspondence - Dairy Dept., 1885-1895 |
| F. 5 | Correspondence - Dairy Dept., 1896-1897 |
| F. 6 | Experiment Station Financial Estimates, 1897-1898 |
| F. 7 | Daily field reports, 1894-1896 |
| F. 8 | Agricultural Experiment Station Report: Roads, c. 1894 |
| F. 9 | Agricultural Experiment Station Report, 1894 |
| F.10 | Agricultural Experiment Station Report, Biological Dept., 1896 |
| F.11 | Agricultural Experiment Station Report, 1902 |
| F.12 | Agricultural Experiment Station Report, Jan. 20, 1904 |
| F.13 | Agricultural Experiment Station Report, April 7, 1904 |
| F.14 | Agricultural Experiment Station Report, March 30, 1905 |
| F.15 | Agricultural Experiment Station Report, May 22, 1905 |
| F.16 | Agricultural Experiment Station Report, Oct. 3, 1905 |
| F.17 | Agricultural Experiment Station Report, Jan. 6, 1906 |
| F.18 | Agricultural Experiment Station Report, April 5, 1906 |
| F.19 | Agricultural Experiment Station Report, June 1, 1906 |
| F.20 | Agricultural Experiment Station Report, Aug. 7, 1906 |
| F.21 | Thesis: Some Factors Effecting the Efficiency of Cream Separation by Centrifugal Force, by Frank C. Britton, 1895 |