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EXPERIMENT FARM AT SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA. 



VIEW OF THE EXPERIMENT FARM AT SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA, 

 VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT. 



The above illustration shows a portion of the vegetable department of the 

 Experimental Farm of the North Carolina State Horticultural Society at Southern 

 Pines in that State. This farm is being conducted by the North Carolina Horti- 

 cultural Society in co-operation with the North Carolina Experiment Station and 

 its object is to ascertain the relative proportions of the three principal fertilizer 

 ingredients, Potash, Phosphoric Acid and Nitrogen, needed by various crops for 

 their best development. 



This enterprise is of much importance to all American farmers since it is the 

 first attempt in this country to study the problem of proper plant nutrition on 

 such an extensive scale. The experiments conducted here are after the pattern 

 of the celebrated experiments of Rothamsted in England, and results forthcom- 

 ing are being watched with the greatest interest by agricultural investigators. 



