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STATION STAKK. 



B. W. Kiljiore, M. S., Director. F. L. Stevens, M. 8., Vn. D., Bioloijid. 



W. A. Withers, ^I. A., ChrmiM. W. G. JMurrison, M. A., AasiMant Chrmist. 



( '. W. I^urkett, M. S., Pu. D., . {(jrumlluriM. J. C. Kendall, B. ^.,Amstant in Dairying. 



W. F. Ma.«sey, C. E., IIorticnltnriM. J. S. Jeffrey, Poit/tnjnian. 



Tait l^utler, D. V. S., ]'elerin(irian. B. 8. Skinner, Fann Si(}>irintt'n<lfid. 



Kniiikliii Sherman, jr., B. S. A., Erdo- B. F. Walton, SuperiulcudaU of Agricul- 

 mologid. tural Experimental Work. 



A. F. Bowen, Bursar. 



GENEKAL OUTLOOK. 



The work of the North Carolina Station has Imen continued alon^ 

 nearly the same lines as formerly. The poultry work has been con- 

 siderably extended by the purchase of additional breeding stock and 

 the erection of houses for their accommodation and for experiments 

 with them. The nitrification experiments with ditierent soils and fer- 

 tilizer materials have been continued, together with the study of 

 methods for determining the nitritying power of ditierent soils. This 

 work is conducted with great care and skill and reflects credit upon 

 the station. A new feeding-stutt's inspection act was passed by the 

 last legislature and the State board of agriculture has employed a 

 chemist who will have special charge of the work and will conduct 

 microscopic studies of feeds and their adulterants. The biologist is 

 making a careful stud}- of a wilt disease of tobacco which has been 

 present in the State for at least two years. During the past year he 

 cooperated with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department and 

 the State department of agriculture in a study on the black rot of the 

 grape and the results have been published as a station l)ulletin. Some 

 cooperative work is also being done with the Bureau of Soils in making 

 a soil survey, with the Bureau of Chemistry on the availal)le plant 

 food in soils, with the Division of Entomology on the San .lose scale 

 and the Asiatic ladybird, and with farmers in preventing the smut of 

 grain. 



The North Carolina Station and the State department of agriculture 

 continue to work together harmoniousl}' and eti'ectively, and the assist- 

 ance of the latter materially strengthens the work of the station in the 

 State. The department now maintains three experimental farms, 

 which are attracting much attention from the farmers, many of whom 

 come long distances to see theuL The work of these farms consists 

 largely of variety, cultural; fertilizer, and other tests with cotton, corn, 

 peaiuits, tol)acco, and gi'ain, and experiments with grasses and forage 

 crops and stock. About $5,000 was used for tliis work during the 

 past year. The department still conducts on a somewhat larger scale 

 the insp<>ction work in entomology and (piarantine work with Texas 



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