New England Region Projects
1954-85
Agricultural Experiment Station
(UA 10/2/4)
Size: 5 boxes, (2 cu.ft.)
Biography/History:
The Hatch Act, passed by Congress in 1887, established agricultural experiment stations around the country. It provided $15,000 a year for research and experimentation. The Act was amended in 1955. These funds were used to conduct the New England Region Projects.
Scope and Content:
This series contains the correspondence and reports which pertain to each of the research projects which deal with economic and agricultural topics relative to New Hampshire.
Inventory:
Box 1
| F.1 |
1960-61 |
Proposed Revision to Regional Research Project NE-13, "Studies of the Physical Properties of Behavior and Forms of Forage as Related to Engineering Application" |
| F.2 |
1958-68 |
NE-13, Mechanization, fldr.1 |
| F.3 |
1958-60 |
NE-13, Mechanization, fldr.2 |
| F.4 |
1975-77 |
NE-36, Pesticide Residues in or on Raw Agricultural Commodities |
| F.5 |
1975-82 |
NE-39, Nitrates in Soil, Water and Plants |
| F.6 |
1956-66 |
NE-39, Soil Nitrogen |
| F.7 |
1962-64 |
NE-44, Principles of Mechanical Harvesting of Fruits and Vegetables |
| F.8 |
1958-67 |
NE-45, Forage Crop Diseases |
Box 2
| F.1 |
1962-68 |
NE-46, Milk Composition |
| F.2 |
1963-69 |
NE-47, Social and Economic Consequences of Changes in Employment upon Selected Northeastern Communities |
| F.3 |
1965 |
NE-48 Soil-Plant-Water Relationships |
| F.4 |
1963-68 |
NE-49, The Control of Bird Depredation |
| F.5 |
1962-66 |
NE-51, The Performance of Populations of Domestic Fowl as Influenced by heritable physiological traits and by genes with known pleiotropic effects |
| F.6 |
1963-67 |
NE-52, Utilization of Amino Acids from Proteins |
| F.7 |
1974-77 |
NE-53, Degradation of Agricultural Pesticides in Biological Systems |
| F.8 |
1963-67 |
NE-53, Pesticides |
| F.9 |
1974 |
NE-54, Improvement of Efficiency of Harvesting Apples |
| F.10 |
1965-68 |
NE-54, Improvement of Efficiency of Harvesting Apples |
| F.11 |
1966-69 |
NE-55, Aquatic Weed Project |
Box 3
| F.1 |
1966-68 |
NE-56, Air Pollution Problems |
| F.2 |
1967-71 |
Successor to NE-56 |
| F.3 |
1967-82 |
NE-57, Breeding and Evaluation of Kentucky Bluegrass for Turf- terminated |
| F.4 |
1970-74 |
NE-58, An Economic and Sociological Study of Agricultural Labor in the Northeast States |
| F.5 |
1966-68 |
NE-58, An Economic Study of Agricultural Labor in the Northeast States |
| F.6 |
1967-69 |
NE-59, Regional Research Coordination Northeastern Region |
| F.7 |
1967-74 |
NE-62, Relationship between Known Genetic Markers and Composition of Milk and Other Economically Important Traits |
| F.8 |
1968-77 |
NE-63, Disposal and Utilization of Dairy and Poultry Manures by Land Application |
| F.9 |
1968-75 |
NE-64, Biology of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes, Pratylenchus Penetrans, terminated |
| F.10 |
1973-78 |
NE-66, Genetics and Physiology of Sweet Corn Quality and Biological Efficiency, terminated |
| F.11 |
1970-77 |
NE-70, Engineering Systems for Forage Crop Production and Use |
| F.12 |
1972-83 |
NE-73, Nutrition Improvement in the Northeast Region |
| F.13 |
1971-76 |
NE-74, Breeding of Improved Varieties of Forage Species Adapted to the Northeast |
| F.14 |
1971-76 |
NE-74-75, Regional Forage Crops Technical Committee |
| F.15 |
1971-76 |
NE-75, Breeding for Improved Quality |
| F.16 |
1972-73 |
NE-76, Techniques for Eradicating[sic] of Infectious Diseases of Poultry |
| F.17 |
1971-75 |
NE-77, Community Devices for the Non- metropolitan People in the Northeast |
| F.18 |
1971-77 |
NE-79, Consumer Marketing and Laboratory Studies of Flame Resistant Items, terminated |
| F.19 |
1971 |
NE-80, Improvement of Social and Economic Opportunities for Rural People |
Box 4
| F.1 |
1972-76 |
NE-81, Economic Analysis of Impact of Pollution Control on Marketing Poultry and Eggs in the Northeast |
| F.2 |
1972-73 |
NE-82, The influence of Air Pollution on Plant Productivity in the Northeast |
| F.3 |
1975-76 |
NE-85, Eco. & Mktg. Potentials for Ornamentals in the Middle Atlantic States |
| F.4 |
1973-78 |
NE-86, Effects of Alternative Pricing Structures and Pooling Methods on the Dairy Industry in the Northeast- terminated |
| F.5 |
1973-77 |
NE-88, Future Economic Adjustments in the Marketing of Selected Northeast Fruits and Vegetables |
| F.6 |
1973-78 |
NE-89, Community Structure and Quality of Life: Measurement and Analysis, terminated |
| F.7 |
1973-77 |
NE-90, Rural Land Use Policy in an Urbanizing Environment, terminated |
| F.8 |
1976 |
NE-91, Eco, Evaluation of Alternative Management Strategies and the Atlantic Coast Clam Industry |
| F.9 |
1971-80 |
NE-95, Phenology, Weather and Crop Yields, terminated |
| F.10 |
1977 |
NE-97, Analysis of Rural Land Market in the Northeast |
| F.11 |
1975 |
NE-98, Rural Land Market |
| F.12 |
1956-80 |
NE-99, Biology and the Control of Vascular Disease in Trees- terminated |
| F.13 |
1975-80 |
NE-100, Recreation Marketing Adjustments in the Northeast, terminated |
| F.14 |
1978-80 |
NE-101, The Impact of Nematode Populations on Crop Yields - terminated |
| F.15 |
1978-81 |
NE-105, Implications of Demand. and energy changes for the Northeastern Poultry Population and Egg Industries, terminated |
| F.16 |
1976-83 |
NE-106, Breeding Cool Season Forage Species for Improved Feeding, Value and Productivity |
| F.17 |
1976-81 |
NE-109, Regional Potato Testing, terminated |
| F.18 |
1978 |
NE-111, Integration and Evaluation of Forage Production, Handling and Utilization Systems, terminated |
| F.19 |
1977-85 |
NE-113, Families' Time Use |
Box 5
| F.1 |
1979-84 |
NE-119, Impact of in and out Migration and Population Redistribution in the Northeast |
| F.2 |
1976-84 |
NE-120, Rural Gerontology, terminated |
| F.3 |
1978-80 |
NE-122, Economic Factors Affecting Northeast Market for Local Fruit and Vegetables |
| F.4 |
1978-83 |
NE-125, Socio-economic Factors and Rural Land Use |
| F.5 |
1977-82 |
NE-128, Economic Impacts of the 200-mile limit on Rural Northeastern Communities |
| F.6 |
1979-83 |
NE-129, Socio-Economic Impacts |
| F.7 |
1977-81 |
NE-141, Rural Development research, terminated |
| F.8 |
1960-69 |
NEM Miscellaneous, fldr.1 |
| F.9 |
1960-62 |
NEM Misc., fldr.2 |
| F.10 |
1961-62 |
NEM Misc., fldr.3 |
| F.11 |
1954-66 |
NEM Florist and Orn. |
