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other improved facilities for such college officers as are connected 

 with the station. The college had an enrollment of about 110 agri- 

 cultural students during the year, and is doing much toward intro- 

 ducing elementar}' agriculture into the public schools of the State. 



The State department of agriculture is continuing its work in the 

 inspection of foods and fertilizers and the management of experi- 

 mental farms. During the past few years about $G5,000 has been 

 spent for the land and equipment of four farms of about 200 acres 

 each. Besides the farms established at Kingsboro and Statesville, 

 one has recently been laid out at Willard for truck crops, and one at 

 Blantyre, in the mountain section, for orchard fruits, potatoes, cab- 

 bage, celery, and other truck crops. These farms are devoted largely 

 to demonstrations of results determined elsewhere, but there will also 

 be some experimental work. As far as they are devoted to field crops, 

 the experiments will be largely parallel to those carried on on the 

 station farm at Raleigh. 



The North Carolina Station is making progress in the differentia- 

 tion of its research work, and its influence is being more widely felt 

 in the State through its work in different localities. If its present 

 policy is steadily maintained, the accumulation of results along the 

 practical lines on which most of its operations are being conducted 

 will undoubtedl}^ be of increasing benefit to the State. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The principal lines of work conducted at the North Carolina Sta- 

 tion during the past year were as follows: Chemistry — rate of nitri- 

 fication of different nitrogenous substances in different soils, mtthods 

 of analysis; soils; field experiments — variety, cultural, and fertilizer 

 tests with cotton, corn, and cowpeas, experiments with grasses and 

 forage plants; horticulture; plant diseases — wilt of tobacco and 

 melons; animal husbandry — beef production, feeding work horses; 

 diseases of animals; poultry experiments; dairying, and tests of farm 

 machinei-y. 



INCOME. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as follows : 



United States appropriation .$Lo,000.00 



State appropriation "14, 000. GO 



Farm i)roducts "TL 35 



Total 20. 77L35 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 fund has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this Department and has been approved. 



o Estimated amount of State appropriation spent for e.\i)eri mental purposes 

 during the fiscal year ended December 1, 1905. 



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