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Title: Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Subjects: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Agriculture
Publisher: (Raleigh, N.C.?) : Board of Agriculture
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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ent Station.W. F. Massey, Horticulturist of the Station. On behalf of the German Kali Works : B. von Herff. The Supervising Committee has been organized as follows:H. B. Battle, Chairman.Gerald McCarthy, Secretary. C. D. Tarbell, Resident Member at Southern Pines. The local superintendent is D. D. F. Cameron. Pig. 3.—Appearance of the Experimental Farm (fruit department) on February 12, 1895,before the work of clearing was commenced. HORTICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS DURING 1895. 165 2. LOCATION OF THE EXPERIMENTS. Moore County, N. C, was selected as the location of the experimentalfarm, because it is the center of a large and rapidly developing fruit dis-trict, embracing already many hundreds of acres in grapes, peaches,blackberries, and other fruits. The soil has proven to be well adaptedto the growth of these fruits, and is as uniform and level as is pos-sible to secure for the extensive field experiments which were de-signed. The soil here found represents vast bodies of land originally
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Pig. 4.—Sketch map showing location of the fruit and vegetable department of mental Farm. the Experi- 166 N. C. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1896. in long-leaf pine, but now partially covered with a growth ofsmaller pines, oaks, and dogwood. The original pines of mer-chantable size have long since been cut and sawed by the insatiatelumberman. These bodies of pine lands, which are well illustratedby Fig. 3, cover the adjacent counties, and stretch easterly, northerly,and southerly, extending southward through South Carolina andGeorgia. The illustration is reproduced from a photograph of theexact location of the fruit field of the Experimental Farm as it ap-peared on February 12, 1895, a few days before the work of clearingwas commenced. On account of the equable climate, good natural drainage, and thebeneficial effect of the air surrounding the pine woods, this regionhas become noted for its health resorts, among them being SouthernPines, Pine Bluff, Aberdeen, Manly, and the more

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