EXPERIMENT STATION. 17 



Standard Rations, and to study the nutritive value of ensilage. 

 These investigations* so completely demonstrated the utility of 

 the Experiment Station, that the Legislature of 1881 voted to in- 

 crease the Station income to $8,000. North Carolina lately has 

 furnished her station with excellent accommodations at public 

 expense. New York is just organizing a station at an outlay of 

 $20,000 per annum. 



FERTILIZERS.! 



In respect to its terms, the Station makes tico classes of analy- 

 ses of fertilizers and fertilizing materials ; the first for the benefit 

 of farmers, gardeners and the public generally; the second for 

 the private use of manufacturers and dealers. Analyses of the 

 first class are made gratuitously, and the results are published as 

 speedily and widely as possible for the guidance of purchasers and 

 consumers. Those of the second class are charged for at moderate 

 rates, and their results are not published in a way to interfere 

 with their legitimate private use. The Station, however, distinctly 

 reserves the liberty to use at discretion, for the public benefit, all 

 results obtained in its Laboratory, and in no case will enter into 

 any privacy that can work against the public good. 



During 1881, one hundred and seventy (170) samples of fertil- 

 izers have been analyzed. Of these, 44 were examined for private 

 parties, and the i-emainder, 126, for the general use of the citizens 

 of the Statd 



The samples analyzed for the public benefit have been sent in 

 from various quarters of the State, in most instances by actual 

 purchasers and consumers, but in some instances by dealers or 

 agents. 



All the analyses of the first class are made on samples under- 

 stood to have been taken in accordance with the printed instruc- 

 tions which the Station supplies to all applicants. Here follows a 

 coj^y of these instructions. 



* For the account of them see subsequent pages of this Report. 



f The matter of this and of several subsequent pages, explanatory of the samp- 

 ling and valuation of fertilizers, is copied with a few appropriate alterations from 

 the Report for 1880. 



