160 BEPOET OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Island; 6, Suggestions concerning treiitmcnt of seed corn with de- 

 terrents ngainst crows; and 7, An apparatus for measuring acidity in 

 cheese making and butter making; and tiie Annual Keport for li)08. 

 The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as fol- 

 lows : 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act ,$13. HOO. 00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 9,000.00 



Total 23,400.00 



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 State approjoriated $175,000 for the maintenance of the col- 

 lege of agriculture, an increase over last year of $25,000. A new 

 law provides for the appointment by the governor of five members 

 on the Cornell board of trustees, to include the commissioner of 

 agriculture and the state superintendent of education. The station 

 is doing valuable work along a variety of lines. 



ISrOBTH CABOLINA. 



North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, West Raleigh. 



Department of >sorth Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



C. B. Williams, M. S.. Director. 



The North Carolina Station followed the same lines of investiga- 

 tion pursued the year before, when the station was brought under the 

 management of a distinct board of control and its connection with 

 the state board of agriculture terminated. The different lines of work 

 were developed during the year and the station proceeded on a more 

 settled and efficient basis. In March, 1909, the legislature passed a 

 bill providing for paying for the printing of the bulletins and reports 

 of the station. A new barn, costing $2,500, was built on the station 

 farm to replace the one destroyed by fire. 



During the year Tait Butler, veterinarian and animal husbandman, 

 resigned to take up editorial work. J. L. Burgess, formerly of this 

 Department, was appointed to conduct work in the study of leading 

 southern crops, their improvement, and their adaptation to tj'^pe soils. 

 I. O. Schaub, assistant in soils at the Iowa Station, was appointed 

 to carry on similar work at this station, but w^as later put in charge 

 of extension work. 



The Adams fund projects were materially strengthened during the 

 year by extra equipment and more workers. The work on apple and 

 lettuce diseases was actively prosecuted, and a large collection of 

 apple-leaf spot made for preliminary study; the life history of the 

 lettuce drop disease, and a bacterial disease of lettuce were worked 



