North Carolina State University, North Carolina Agricultural Research Service Annual Reports 1879-1994

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

North Carolina State University, North Carolina Agricultural Research Service Annual Reports 1879-1994

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/ua101_002

The annual reports of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service include annual and biennial reports from the Agricultural Research Service (many under its former designation of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station), and reports documenting "Accomplishements in Tobacco Research in North Carolina." Materials range in date from 1879 to 1994. The North Carolina Agricultural Research Service began as the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station in 1877. The Experiment Station, the second of its kind in the United States, was established to conduct tests on commercial fertilizers and other agricultural products, as well as to perform experimental research on agricultural nutrition and growth. As such, the Experiment Station worked closely with the North Carolia Department of Agriculture. In 1979, the Agricultural Experiment Station was renamed the Agricultural Research Service.

8.25 Linear feet

North Carolina State University. Special Collections Research Center

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6636407

North Carolina State University. Special Collections Research Center

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

North Carolina State University

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xw89rs (corporateBody)

Currently, there are 24 University Standing Committees. Members of each of the University Standing Committees are appointed by the chancellor at the beginning of each academic year. The Committee on Committees provides the chancellor with recommendations concerning the composition and charge for each committee, its chair, and its faculty, staff, and student members. These recommendations are in part based on voluntary expressed preferences, on a general principle of rotation, and, whenever appro...

North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cc5drr (corporateBody)

North Carolina. Agricultural Research Service

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64f658g (corporateBody)

The North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station was created in 1877, and transferred from the state to North Carolina State University in 1889. The Station was jointly run by the two groups and became a source of contention between the State Department of Agriculture and the University through the early part of the twentieth century. In 1979 the title "Agricultural Experiment Station" was changed to "Agricultural Research Service." From the description of North Carolina Agricultur...