Agriculture Experiment Station Research Highlight
1975-
(UA 18/10/5)

Size: 2 Boxes, (.75 cu.ft.)

History:
Research Highlights is a publication geared to telling the public about research which is being carried on by scientists in the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture.

Scope and Content:
This series is made of copies of Research Highlights starting with the first volume in Winter 1975. (Also BioSci S 537 .N4)

Inventory:
Box 1
F.1 Vol.1 No.1 Winter 1975 Yun Tzu Kiang "A New Look at an Old Crop: The Soybean: A Garden Vegetable";David Koch "The Soybean: High Protein Animal Feed"; James Holter "Cows Have an Energy Crisis Too"; Richard Strout and Richard Ringrose " Farming the Sea: The New Hampshire Salmon Project".
F.2 No.2 Spring 1975 David P. Olson "Wildlife under the Power Lines"; William Mautz "Wildlife: What Do They Eat, Woh Much Food Do They Need?"; Thomas Adams and Harold Hocker, Jr. "The Search for a Better Christmas Tree: The Balsam Fir Project"; "Drying Out the Lumber: Automation in the Kiln; " A Special Dedication".
F.3 No.3 Winter 1976 "Japanese Quail in New Hampshire"; "The Killer is Heart Disease"; "Can Faulty Diets Cause Faulty Brains"; "Safeguard For Healthy Animals".
F.4 No.4 Spring 1976 "How Healthy are New Hampshire Trees?"; " Keeping One Jump Ahead of the Insects"; "Disease Forecasting in Field and Orchard"; "Dimboa: a New Wolrd for Corn Breeders".
F.5 No.5 Winter 1977 "Satellite Sensing For Down-To- Earth Problems"; "Sewage Sludge - from Waste to Resource"; "Sanitary Landfill - How Sanitary?"; "How Long Can a River Stay Clean?"
F.6 No.6 Spring 1977 "Monitoring the Red Tide"; "Helping Corn Grow in Cool N.H."; How Much Protein is Enough for Calves?"; "A Sweeping Cure for Black Flies"; "Henry Davis Retires".
F.7 No.7 Winter 1978 "He Studies Enzymes to Make Better Trees"; "Tree-Top Studies May Solve Waste Problems"; "Persistant Research on a Persistant Parasite"; "A Botantist Grows Plants in Test Tubes"; "New Projects".
F.8 No.8 Spring 1978 "Tailor-Made Tomatoes 13 Years From Idea to Table"; "Squash Goes From Vine to Bush"; "The Scent of Lilacs Can Linger Past May"; "His Plants Are Grown All Over the World".
F.9 No.9 Winter 1979 "Putting Fire to Work in Forests"; "N.H. Lands - Where is it Going?"; "Town Forests - Overlooked Treasures".
F.10 No.10 Summer 1979 "Fuel Wood - Past, Present, Future"; "Fruit Can Help Pay Land Costs"; "Less Electricity - More Eggs"; "Green Houses: Solar Energy for Plants".
F.11 No.11 Winter 1980 "Why Do People Behave Like That?"; "Once a Pollutant, Now It's Black Gold"; " . . . They Quietly Cease to Exist."; "She Watches Cells Make Protein Fibers"; "Robert Blickle Retires".
F.12 No.12 Summer 1980 "It's Been All Plow 'Til Now"; "That Was The Weather That Was"; "Genetics: Clues To Cancer Genesis?"; "Where's Everbody Going?".
F.13 No.13 Winter 1981 "Morse Code: Keeping the Insects in Order"; "Better Way to Make the Pest the Prey"; "Pollen: Nothing to Sneeze At"; "Emphasis on Search in Cancer Research".
F.14 No.14 Spring 1981 "Soy: Bean for all Seasons"; "Perfecting the Solar-Power Plant"; "Transplant Helps Old Mares be Mothers"; "Basic Biology: A Weapon in Cancer War"; " Skogie Retires".
F.15 No.15 Winter 1982 "Research: The Path to Better Farming"; "Tracing the Travels of Heavy Metals"; "Perfecting the Perfect Package"; Enzymes: Keys to Cancer?".
F.16 No.16 Summer 1982 "Marine Economics Comprises a Complex Kettle of Fish"; "Cutting the High Cost of Calories"; "Sunapee: a New Name on The Front Door"; Gerald Dunn Retires"; W.r. Dunlop Retires"; " Dean Avery Rich Retires".
F.17 No.17 Winter 1983 "The Computer Catalog: Plant Species, Cow Vitamins, and Soil Graphics"; "Algal Studies Help Nip Blooms in the Bud"; "Tracing the Tracks of the Railroad Worm".
F.18 No.18 Summer 1983 "Seed Study May Help Save Endangered Species"; "New Cover Keeps Greens Greener"; "What's in a Label?"; "They Make Sense out of the Census"; "Walter Collins Retires".

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Box 2
F.1 No.19 Winter 1984 "Small Farms - Big Contributors"; "Salvaging Untillable Land"; "Polyester Takes to the Fields"; "Helping the Sun Along"; "30 Tons - That's a Lot of Squash".
F.2 No.20 Summer 1984 "Keeping Lumeber on the Straght Path"; "Making the Palcid Cow Efficient"; "Bacillus - a dirt cheap Factory"; "Better pest Control with kitchen Methods".
F.3 No.21 Winter 1985 "Watching Out for New Hampshire Bobcats"; "Animal Diagnosticins Can Save Human Lives"; Testing, Testing, Testing"; "From Air Pollution to Soil Pollution"; "Lest Technology Rob the Future".
F.4 No.22 Summer 1985 "Coaxing Better Forage form our Rugged Terrain"; "Rediscovering an Old Resource"; "Avoiding Overkill in Pest Management".
F.5 No.23 Winter 1986 "Christmas Trees - A Boom Industry"; Treetop Photography Helps New England Foresters"; "The Care and Feeding or Rumen Microbes"; "Of Bread and Wine and Cancer Cells".
F.6 No.24 Summer 1986 "Fit Pigs, Fat Pigs, and Human Hearts"; Chicken May Show Us How To prevent Malaria"; "How Clots are Both Healers and Killers"; Colorful Algae and Deadly Toxins".
F.7 No.25 Winter 1987 "Can This Tree Resist That Fungus?"; "Cells Adapt to Light"; "Beetles Litter the Forests"; "Fertilizer From Thin Air"; "A Man of All Seasons - Gordon Byers Retires".
F.8 No.26 Summer 1987 "Agronomy: Before There was an Experiment Station, there was an Agronomist"; "Plant Pathology"; "Entomology: Using Old Methods in New Ways"; "Forestry: Trees, Soil, Water, and Wildlife."; "Horticulture: Plants Bear the Label 'Developed' in New Hampshire"; "Animal Science: Cows, Sheep, Chickens, Pigs, Horses, and Now People".
F.9 No.27 Winter 1988 "Genes Spell Immunity"; "Test Tube Trees"; Genetic Engineering Puts Plant Breeeders on the Fast Track"; Scattering Ashes on a North Country Farm"; "Mike Ikawa Retires".
F.10 No.28 Summer 1988 "Counting on Growth"; "Local Planning"; Land Use Changes"; "Who Owns the Water?"; "Retirements - Ed Herbst and Frank Hoornbeek".
F.11 No.29 Winter 1989 "To Thin or Not to Thin"; "Will the Gypsy Return?"; "Getting the Bear Facts"; "Satellites Spy on Forest Fitness".
F.12 No.30 Summer 1989 "Rowcovers: Best Bet for Quick Yield"; "Gardening in the Infra Red"; Agriculture and the Environment"; "New Help for an Old Crop"; "Soybean Genetics".
F.13 No.31 Winter 1990 "Trekking Lobsters"; "Bloomin' Algae"; "Yankee Shrimp"; "Angling for Water Quality"; "Retirement - Harold Hocker".
F.14 No.32 Spring 1991 "Contolling Obesity"; "A Real Heart-Stopper"; "The Cancer Switch"; "Better Breeding"; "Richard Strout Retires".
F.15 Spring 1993 Drew Sanborn "New Strategies in the Battle Against Apple Scab"; Virginia Walter Schonwald "Community Based Composting"; Louis Mazzari "Is Your Water Safe To Drink?"; Sharon Keeler "How Do Fat Cells Break Down?"; Kim Billings "Walking With Deer"; "Blood Clotting - Friend and Foe".
F.16 Spring 1994 Sharon Keeler "Looking for Mr. Good Beetle"; Steve Fowle "The Long and Viny Road"; Steve Fowle "Breeding Better Berries"; Sharon Keeler "Yo-Yo Dieting and Breast Cancer"; Susan Warner Smith "Getting to the Heart of Atherosclerosis"; Virginia Walter Schonwald "The Relevance of Soil".
F.17 Spring 1995 Louis Mazzari "Elementary, My Dear"; Virginia Stuart "Agents of Mayhem", Susan Warner Smith "In the Realm of Gene Research, Yeast Rises to the Occasion", Sharon Keeler "When it Comes to Seeing 20-20, Carrots are 24K"; Dan Wise "The First in a Thousand-Mile Journey"; Sharon Keeler "In Search of Peter Cottontail".
F.18 Autumn 1996 Smith, Susan Warner "When Taxes Hit Home"; Casanave, Suki, "Sweet Success: Lilac expert devotes his life to creating the perfect bloom"; Keeler, Sharon "Deciphering the Code: Tiny worm may hold genetic key to cancer"; Casanave, S. "Perpetual Harvest: New England's forests are becoming a resource for the world"; Metzler, Barbara "Puzzles Posed by Chickens: Why do some birds resist disease and some succumb?"; Merrill, Lorraine Stuart "A Fish Story: Adaptable tilapia promise food for the future"
F.19 Spring 1998 Keeler, Sharon "Amphibians in New England"; McGrail, Mike "Looking for Better Ways to Describe The Soil Underfoot"; Cyr, Desiree "Pressing a Page to Write the Book on Plant Life"; Metzler, Barbara "Tracking the Mystery of Zink Transport"; Keeler, S. "Enzymes and the Miracle of Sight"; "Attitudes and Access to New Hampshire's Waters"; Cyr, D. "Studying Gels to Save Food and Lives"
F.20 Spring 1999 A Weed that is a Wonder Plant; One Bad Apple' Fertiltiy in Cattle; Tested by Trash; Bacteria and Bioremediation; Water, Water Everywhere; Public Lends a Hand; A Brook and Its Bugs; Ecological Reserves; Managing a Forest; Clues to Climate Change; Food Poisoning
F.21 Spring 2000 Cardiovascular Disease; Stress Therapy; The Secret Life of Lobsters; Clams provide model for Cancer Research; To Feed or Not to Feed [wild deer]

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