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portions of this country, Canadians, English, Scotch and Irish, and next to 

 these the sturdy German stocli. 



It is the home seeker, the investor, no matter how small, that the Board is 

 seeking to attract to the state. This has been its work and is responsible for 

 the many exhibitions of resources made in the past and for the illustrated 

 literature it annually sends out to thousands who enquire for information and 

 enlightenment as to the opportunities of the Old North State. Every avail- 

 able channel for advertising the State is taken advantage of, and it is ex- 

 pected that this systematic work will bring to us the people who want homes. 



The last session of oiu* Legislature appropriated $5,000.00 for this work 

 and required the Board of Agriculture to use a like sum annually for the 

 purpose of securing desirable immigration. 



THE BULLETIN. 



This monthly publication is the mouth piece of the Department, carrying to 

 the homes of our farmers, truckers, dairy and cattle men, the results of the 

 experimental work done in all depai*tments under the direction of the Board. 

 It also gives exact information to all purchasers of commercial fertilizers of 

 both the money and the plant food value of every brand of fertilizers sold or 

 offered for sale iu the State. 



The Department is doing ten times as much work now as it did twenty years 

 ago, and the Bulletin has ten times the circulation it had at that time. Its 

 purpose is to give to the reader the best advice obtainable, based upon scien- 

 tific knowledge and research and experimentally proved at the Board's Test 

 Farms. It is in no sense an "Agricultural Journal," nor is it intended to take 

 the place of one. 35,000 copies are issued monthly giving the best information 

 obtainable to the farmers of the State free of cost to them individually. 



THE MUSEUM. 



The one aim of the museum is to place before the visitor in an attractive 

 and convincing way such interesting and valuable facts regarding the natui-al 

 resoui'ces and natural history of the State as may be taught by means of a 

 display of well labelled specimens, and a fact taught in this way is much more 

 convincing and its effects much more lasting than one learned from a book or 

 lectiu-e. This idea is always kept in view' iu the conduct of the museurn. 



This is one state institution of which all the people seem proud. Go where 

 you will, from the moimtains to the sea, in nearly every community will be 

 found people who have visited the museum and brought away facts and im- 

 pressions that will stay with them as long as they live. 



The teachers in the schools and colleges of the city recognize the museum's 

 value educationally. Many classes are conducted through it for special lines 

 of study and individual school children are frequent and constant patrons. 

 Among excursions, State Fair visitors and crowds here for other special 

 occasions are always some gi'oups from schools and colleges all over the State, 

 and the museum is not the least of Raleigh's attractions as an educational 

 center. The museum invites correspondence and the submittal of specimens 

 for identification from every section of the State. The museum of the State 

 Board of Agriculture is generally conceded to be the best museum of resources 

 and natural history in America devoted to one State's products. 



NEW YOKK. 



The Board of Agriculture and the workers of the Department are constantly 

 on the outlook for things which can be done to better the farming industry. 

 The four test farms, which are now in operation, have created a demand in 

 other sections for this class of work ; and the Bonrd of Agricidture. at its last 

 meeting, passed a resolution expressing its purpose to establish, as soon as its 

 means would permit, a farm in the northeastern section of the State to con- 

 duct experiments with peanuts and the general farm and trucking crops in 

 that section ; one in the Old Bright Tobacco Belt to make tests of tobacco and 

 other crops now grown or which may be profitably grown in that section ; and 

 one in the northwestern end of the State to study the grasses, grains, live 

 stock and other farm problems of interest there. ^ 



