202 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Washington Station is doing much for the advancement of 

 agriculture in the State, especially along lines related to the produc- 

 tion of field crops and live stock. One need of the wheat growers is 

 a fall-sown wheat that will not winterkill, and this the agriculturist has 

 tried to obtain. The production of grasses and other forage crops 

 and the improvement of the ranges are very important problems 

 related to the development of animal production in the State, which 

 the station is investigating. Closely related to these also are the 

 feeding experiments and the veterinary investigations. The con- 

 tinued success and consequent growth of the college with which this 

 station is connected, as well as the increasing importance of the agri- 

 culture of the State, make it very desirable that this station should 

 have a director who can give his time and energy fully to the study 

 and administration of the important affairs of this department of the 

 college. It is hoped, therefore, that the offices of president of the 

 college and director of the station will be separated in the near future. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, Morgantown. 

 Department of West Virginia University. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Regents: E. M. Grant, ]\forgantoivn; C. E. Haworth, Huntington; J. W. 

 Hale, Princeton; C. M. Babb, Falls; J. R. Trotter, Buckhannon; D. C. Gallaher, 

 Charleston; J. B. Finley, Parkersburg; C. D. Oldham, Moundsville; W. J. W. Cowden, 

 Wheeling. 



STATION STAFF. 



D. B. Purinton, Ph. D., LL. D., President of the University. 



J. H. Stewart, M. A., Dir.; Agr. C. D. Howard, H. S., Asst. Chem. 



A. D. Hopkins, Ph. D., V. Dir.; Ent. Frank B. Kunst, 2d Asst. Chem. 



Bert H. Hite, M. S., Chem. Horace Atwood, M. S., Asst. Agr. 



K. C. Davis, Ph. D., Hort. John Wallace, Sten. and Clerk. 



Gilbert M. John, Asst. Hort. M. A. Stewart, Libr. 



W. E. Rumsey, B. S. A., Asst. Ent. W. J. White, Auditor. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the West Virginia Station during the past year has 

 been along the same lines as heretofore pursued, including field experi- 

 ments with cereals, forage crops, and grasses; a continuation of a 

 comprehensive series of experiments designed to study some of the 

 important problems in soil fertility, involving the use of commercial 

 fertilizers, barnyard manure, green manures, and crop rotations; feed- 

 ing experiments with sheep; experiments with poultry with reference 

 to the production of meat and eggs, the study of the different feeds 





