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A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this department and has been approved. 



The work of the North Carolina station in general is proceeding 

 regularly and in accordance with definite plans. Although condi- 

 tions limit the range of the station work, increased interest in its 

 operations is manifested throughout the State. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the Nortli Carolina State Department 



of Agriculture, Raleigh. 



B. W. KiLGOKE, M. S., Director. 



The principal lines of work followed at this station during the 

 year included soil investigations to determine the fertilizer or plant 

 food requirements of different crops on the different types of soil 

 occurring in the State, and experiments with crops, including cotton, 

 corn, and other cereals, peanuts, cowpeas, soy beans, and tobacco, to 

 determine which of these are best adapted to the various soils and 

 what methods of cultivation and general crop management are most 

 efficient. The work was conducted on the five test farms or substa- 

 tions in Iredell, Buncombe, Edgecombe, Pender, and Transylvania 

 Counties, representing different types of soil, and on a large number 

 of similar areas or individual farms over the State where different 

 kinds of soil are found to be typically developed. Analyses of the 

 soils on which the work was done were made and some of the results 

 of the work were published during the year. 



Work was in progress on the testing of varieties of the leading 

 crops for the different parts of the State, and the improvement of 

 these varieties by breeding and selection was also given attention. 

 Experiments Avith potatoes, cabbage, celery, and apples were carried 

 on in the mountain section of the State, and with strawberries, lettuce, 

 pecans, and peaches in the eastern or coastal plain section. Feeding 

 experiments w^ere made with beef cattle to determine the profitable- 

 ness of beef production when fed on the crops generally grown on the 

 farms of the State. 



A large amount of demonstration work in addition to the farmers' 

 institute work and embracing spraying, pruning, and other orchard 

 practices, selection of seed, methods of cultivation, fertilization, and 

 other phases of production for different crops was conducted, and 

 cooperative work with this department on the Scuppernong grape 

 w^as carried on at the Pender test farm. Cooperative work with 

 tobacco was also in progress. 



The work of the station is supported from the finances of the State 

 department of agriculture, which amounted to $104,000 for this year 

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