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RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS 7
with 76; improvement of dairy stock RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS
and products, 36, as compared with
40; improvement of timber crops, com- Through such revision, readjustments
bating forest-tree insects, and forest and coordination of research programs
maintenance, management, and reseed- and projects as has been described
ing, 29, as compared with 36; improve-the experiment stations not only efment
of human foods and of food- fected substantial economies in the use
management practices, 9, as compared of f unds, but were able to put iom
with 11; maintenance of economically creased emphaths famngd farm homei
important wild life and combating ani- omplete information on the total
mal pests, 5, as compared with 3; and number of station projects active durstudies
of weather conditions impor- ing the year as compared with the pretant
to agriculture, 3, as compared vious year is not available, but such
with 3 the previous year. information is available for all projLines
of work in which cooperation ects supported by the Adams and Purbetween
the stations and the Depart- nell funds. Adams projects increased
meant was most extensive during the from 420 in 1931 to 436 in 1932, Puryear
included: Soil surveys, represent- nell projects from 1,340 in 1931 to
ing practically every major agricul- 1,458 in 1932. There was a wide vatural
area in the country; prevention nation in the number of projects supof
soil erosion; improvement of irriga- ported by the Adams and Purnell funds
tion practices; utilization and cost of at the different stations. In general,
farm power; use of concentrated ferti- there appears to have been a tendency
lizers; fertilizer requirements of pota- toward a larger number of projects
toes on different soil types; machine with smaller individual allotments
placing of fertilizers for cotton, corn, 'from these funds.
potatoes, and canning crops; improve- The Adams fund was used, as herement
of corn and other cereals; breed- tofore, mainly to support fundamental
ing of improved varieties of potatoes research having as its object more efresistant
to disease; establishment of ficient production and improvement in
type varieties of vegetables; use of quality and use of the product. Of the
parasites to combat the oriental fruit 436 Adams projects, 87, allotted $113,moth;
increasing the efficiency of oil 000 of Adams funds, dealt with investisprays;
plant-disease survey; relation gations having as their object better
of conformation and anatomy of the control of plant diseases; 55, allotted
dairy cow to productive ability; use of $96,000, with maintenance of soil ferproved
sires in breeding for high milk tility and more efficient use of fertiand
butterfat production; beefiness lizers; 54, allotted $55,000, with more
and milk production in dual-purpose effective control of insects and related
cattle; quality and palatability of subjects; 47, allotted $68,000, with a
meat; the growth of wool; cure and more scientific basis for plant and aniprevention
of contagious abortion of mal breeding; 46, allotted $103,000,
cattle; economic and sociological sur- with improvement of animal producvey
of the Appalachian highlands re- tion; 41, allotted $71,000, with more
gion; types of farming; cotton grades effective control of diseases of liveand
market prices; livestock produc- stock; 31, allotted $65,000, with imtion,
marketing, and meat utilization provement of horticultural practice
in areas released from cattle-tick quar- and products; and 26, allotted $51,000
antine; and establishment of a farm of Adams funds, with the physiological
real estate tax index. behavior of plants with reference to
Cooperation between the stations nutrition and growth. A limited nunmand
Department bureaus in agricul- ber of Adams projects and a small
tural research is thus being aimed at proportion of Adams funds were deimportant
specific regional and nation- voted to investigations relating to home
al problems and is coordinating to a economics, but none to investigations
high degree the efforts of the interest- in agricultural economics and rural
ed research agencies as well as the use sociology.
of the best facilities available. For Of the 1,458 Purnell projects 348, inexample,
the work in the quality and volving an expenditure of $781,000.
palatability of meat coordinates re- dealt with economic problems; 53, insearch
in animal production, human volving an expenditure of $113,000 of
nutrition, and economics, both in the Purnell funds, with rural social condiDepartment
and in the stations con- tions; and 145, calling for an expendicerned,
and is typical of the coopera- ture of $273,000, with home economics
tive research of regional or national problems. It thus appears that one
character involving groups of stations. third of the Purnell projects and
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