THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT AND FERTILIZER CONTROL STATION. ESTABLISHED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 1877, FOR THE PROMOTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURE. 1. Offices and laboratory in the Agricultural Department Building, corner of Edenton and Halifax Streets, Raleigh. The chemical work of the Station will include: The analysis of all Fertilizers legally on sale in the State; The analysis of Agricultural Chemicals, of Composts and Home-made Fertilizers, and of all materials from which they can be made; The analysis of Soils, Marls and Mucks; The analysis of Feeding Stuffs; The analysis of Drinking Waters and Articles of Food. The Station has facilities for doing the following botanical and other work: The examination of Seeds with reference to their purity, and capacity to germinate; The testing of varieties of Cultivated Plants; The examination of Grasses and Weeds; The study of Insects injurious to Vegetation. 2. The Experiment Farm and Plant House of the Station was established during 1886 adjacent to the Fair Grounds of the State Agricultural Society, one and a half miles west of Raleigh. There experiments will be carried on, in the language of The Code, "on the nutrition and growth of plants with a view to ascertain what fertilizers are best suited to the various crops of this State, and whether other crops may not be advantageously grown on its soils." The General Assembly of 1887 established the North Caralina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, near the City of Raleigh, and connected this Experiment Station with it. It also directed that the whole of the funds appropriated to this State by the Congress of the United States by the bill known as the "Hatch Bill" should be devoted to this Experiment Station. The work of the Station will be greatly enlarged under this act. 3. A Weather Observing and Signal Station was established at the Experiment Farm during 1886, by the aid of the United States Signal Office. This will be the central office of the State Weather Service, an organization of voluntary observers and displaymen, for collecting climatic statistics and studying the meteorology of this State, and for publishing frost and other weather warnings. The Station is a bureau of information for farmers, and every person interested in developing our agricultural industries is invited to apply to the Station for any information connected with farming. Many publications upon the subjects mentioned are mailed, free of charge, to citizens of North Carolina applying for them. Correspondence is invited upon subjects pertaining to scientific agriculture. Farmers are especially invited to visit the Laboratory, the Experimental Grounds, and the Weather Station. Address: DR. CHARLES W. DABNEY, JR., DIRECTOR, NORTH CAROLINA Agricultural Experiment and Fertilizer Control Station. OFFICERS. CHARLES W. DABNEY, JR., PH. D., DIRECTOR. MILTON WHITNEY, SUPERINTENDENT FARM SINCE APRIL 1, 1886. ASSISTANTS. BALDUIN VON HERFF, PH. D. W. O. BAILEY, Signal Corps, U. S. A., WEATHER OBSERVER, AND ASSISTANT FOR STATE WEATHER SERVICE. LABORATORY AND OFFICES, CORNER OF EDENTON AND HALIFAX STREETS, RALEIGH; FARM, PLANT HOUSE, AND WEATHER STATION, 14 MILES WEST ON THE HILLSBOROUGH ROAD. VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME. PUBLICATIONS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA EXPERIMENT STATION, 1878 TO 1886. This list includes reports, special publications and contributions to The Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, but excludes all circulars, directions and forms. Unless marked otherwise, they are unbound. The following were issued under the Directorship of Dr. Albert R. Ledoux: Directions for making Vinegar, 1878, 4 pages; Analyses and Valuations of Fertilizers, 1877-'78, 30 pages; Ville's formula for composting, and others furnished by Dr. Ledoux, 1878, 16 pages; The Sugar Beet in North Carolina, 1878, 50 pages; Silica vs. Ammonia, results of comparative soil-tests of Popplein's Silicated Phosphate, with a number of ammoniated guanos, 1878, 24 pages; Analyses and Valuations of Fertilizers for 1877 and 1878, republished, 1879, 16 pages; Report of the Director to the Legislature, January, 1879, Document No. 8, 16 pages; Analyses and Valuations of Fertilizers for 1879, 8 pages; Formula for Composting, 1879, 16 pages; Report of the Station for 1879 (bound), 193 pages; Report of the Station for 1880, including Analyses of Fertilizers for that year (bound), 148 pages. The following were issued by Dr. Charles W. Dabney, Jr.: Analyses of Drinking Waters, Bulletin for January, 1881; Value of Active Ingredients of Fertilizers, Bulletin for February, 1881; The Use of Agricultural Chemicals, Bulletin for March, 1881; Adulterated Chemicals, Bulletin for July, 1881; Analyses and Valuations of Fertilizers, 2d edition, 1881, 12 pages ; Report of the Station for 1881 (bound), 172 pages; Trade in Fertilizers-Extension in Cotton Culture, Bulletin for Jan., 1882; Home-made Manures--High-manuring on Cotton, Bulletin for February, 1882; Does Cotton Exhaust? Cotton Seed and its Uses, Bulletin for March, 1882; Stable Manure Saved and Composted-Rice products as a Feeding-stuff, Bulletin for April, 1882; Analyses of Fertilizers, 1882, 8 pages; Analyses of Fertilizers, 2d edition, 1882, 12 pages; Experience with Home-made Manures, Bulletin for June, 1882; Treatment of Cotton Lands-Station at State Fair, Bulletin for October, 1882; Horn, Leather and Wool-Waste, and the Fertilizers made from them, 1882, 10 pages; Finely-ground Phosphates or "Floats," 1882, 10 pages; On Kainite, 1882, 28 pages; Rice and its Products-Food and Fodder Plants, Bulletin, May, 1882; Analyses of Fertilizers, 2d Edition, 1883, 16 pages; Cotton Seed and its Products, Bulletin, June, 1883; N. C. Resources for Commercial Fertilizers, I. Ammoniates; II. Potash Sources, Bulletin, December, 1883; III. Phosphates, Bulletin, January, 1884; The Trade in Fertilizers during 1883, 12 pages; Cost of the Ingredients of Fertilizers, Bulletin, February, 1884; The Phosphate Investigation, Bulletin, March, 1884; Analyses of Fertilizers, season of 1884, 16 pages; Composition of North Carolina Phosphates, Bulletin, April, 1884; Report of Station, 1883 (bound), 104 pages; Analyses of Fertilizers, season of 1885, 16 pages; Report of Station, 1884 (bound), 104 pages; Analyses of Fertilizers, additional, Fall 1885, a circular, 2 pages; Injurious Insects and Diseases of Stock, a bulletin, 2 pages; Report of Station, 1885 (bound), 112 pp., 3 charts; Instructions for Voluntary Observers and Displaymen, 24 pages. CONTENTS. PAGE. 3 THE WEATHER STATION AND STATE WEATHER SERVICE, LABORATORY AND EQUIPMENT, EXPERIMENT FARM, BUILDINGS, &C., FIELD EXPERIMENTS-On pasture and hay grasses, On varieties of cotton, On some new forage crops, On the improvement of worn-out soils by peas, PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE SOIL-General considerations on soil |