Stable Manure Saved and Composted-Rice products as a Feedingstuff, 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; Report of Work done for the State Board of Health, 1881, 8 pages; Treatment of Cotton Lands-Station at State Fair, Bulletin for October, 1882;

Report of the Station, 1882 (bound), 152 pages;

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; The Soja Bean-Waste Products of Tobacco Factories, Bulletin, May, 1883:

Analyses of Fertilizers, 1883, 16 pages;

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;
North Carolina Phosphates, report on, 26 pages;

Report of Station, 1883 (bound), 104 pages;

Analyses of Fertilizers, season of 1885, 16 pages;

Analyses of Fertilizers, 2d edition;

Report of Station, 1884 (bound), 104 pages;

Analyses of Fertilizers, additional, Fall 1885, a circular, 2 pages;

Analyses of Composts, etc., a Bulletin, 2 pages;

Injurious Insects and Diseases of Stock, a Bulletin, 2 pages;

Report of Station, 1885 (bound), 112 pages, 3 charts;

Instructions for Voluntary Observers and Displaymen, 24 pages;

Report of Station, 1886 (bound), 130 pages, 3 plates.

The following were issued by Dr. H. B. Battle :

Formulæ for Composts, Sept., 1887, 4 pages;

Report of N. C. Weather Service for 1887, 37 pages;

Composts and Ingredients Composing Them, 24 pages;

Report of Experiment Station for 1887 (bound), 225 pages, 1 chart, 2 plates.

ANALYSES OF FERTILIZERS; SPRING AND FALL, 1887..

MARLS, LIMESTONES AND PHOSPHATES..

HOME-MADE FERTILIZERS

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REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR

OF THE

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION,

FOR

1887.

INTRODUCTION.

The year 1877 was an eventful one in the history of North Carolina. It marked an era in the advancement of the agricultural interests of the State; in the advancement of the occupation in which three-fourths of her people are engaged.

On the 12th day of March of that year, there was enacted a law by the General Assembly which created a "Department of Agriculture, Immigration and Statistics, and for the Encouragement of Sheep Husbandry." So great was the demand on the part of prominent citizens for an institution of this character, that on the very day of the ratification of this act, the Board of Agriculture, as specified by the act, met in the City of Raleigh and completed the organization. of the Department. The Governor of the State, the President of the University, the President of the State Agricultural Society, the State Geologist, the Master of the State Grange Patrons of Husbandry, as ex-officio members, and two other prominent agriculturists elected by them, constituted the first Board of Agriculture. Upon them devolved. the labor of establishing, in compliance with the act, as a part of the Department of Agriculture, an Agricultural Experiment and Fertilizer Control Station, the first in the Southern States, and the second in America.

The objects for which the establishment of the Station was desired at that time were two-fold:

1st. To protect the farmers of the State from the fraudu

lent fertilizers then flooding the market, by requiring every manufacturer doing business in the State to take out a license on each brand on sale by him; to exercise a general control of the trade by a system of inspecting all brands legally on sale in the State, and by a chemical analysis of these brands to ascertain if their qualities were maintained at a certain guaranteed standard.

2d. To carry on experiments in the field (in the language of the act)" 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 soil."

Besides these two principal objects, the new institution was designed to be a bureau of information on all subjects pertaining to agriculture, where farmers and others could seek information in regard to farming or any of its allied branches. Where seeds, marls, soils, composts or any fertilizing ingredient could be examined and their quality determined. Where feeding stuffs could be analyzed and their value ascertained. Where insects, injurious to vegetation, could be studied and remedies recommended. Where varieties of cultivated plants could be tested. Where seeds could be examined with reference to their purity and capacity to germinate. Where farmers could obtain special information on subjects, which by reason of their limited libraries, they could not obtain for themselves.

The first decade in the life and growth of the Experiment Station has been completed. It will not then seem amiss, at this time, to give a brief history and outline of the work accomplished, and the benefit it has been to that class for which it was established, and for whose best interests those in charge have, at all times, endeavored to carry on the work.

The Experiment Station commenced operations at Chapel Hill, in connection with the State University, with Dr. A. R. Ledoux as its first Director, on April 19th, 1877. The

first analysis of a fertilizer ever made in the State was completed on May 8th. The first recorded paper was one on composting and compost formulas. Mr. W. B. Phillips was elected an Assistant Chemist in June, 1877, and continued to serve in that capacity till October, 1882. Mr. J. C. Taylor commenced work in September, 1878, and continued with the Station till January, 1881. Mr. George Warnecke remained with the Station from September, 1878, to November, 1879. At his resignation, Mr. Wilhelm Mager was appointed in his place, and remained till July, 1880. Mr. A. D. Mickle assumed charge of the records of the chemical work and conducted the clerical labors of the office from October, 1878, till July, 1883. Dr. Ledoux resigned the Directorship in November, 1880, and Dr. C. W. Dabney, Jr., was elected to fill the vacancy. In January, 1881, Mr. H. B. Battle commenced work as Assistant Chemist. Mr. Wm. F. Brugman remained with the Station from January, 1881, to August, 1881.

In the summer of 1881, the Station was removed to Raleigh where it occupied large and commodious quarters in the Agricultural Department Building, recently purchased for the use of the various branches of the Department. At this time the facilities for work were greatly increased, fully equipped laboratories were supplied, and offices were arranged on a more permanent basis. The Station continues to occupy these quarters.

In January, 1882, Mr. F. B. Dancy commenced work at the Station, and is still in its employ. Dr. B. von Herff remained at the Station from January, 1883, to April, 1887. Mr. W. A. Withers came to the Station in January, 1884, and is still connected with it. On the 1st of September, 1887, Dr. Dabney resigned his position, and the present Director has had charge since that time.

In April, 1886, a farm was added to the agencies of the Experiment Station, to carry out what had been in contemplation from the beginning, namely, the institution of ex