The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-07-17

attended every Farmers Institute
and every agricultural meeting OF any
kind in the State to which they were
invited, or to which they had access.
Members of the Station staff have
conducted Farmers Institutes, or de-
livered lectures upon agricultural sub
jects in four-fifths Of the counties Of
the State. The Director, during the
time Of his connection with the Ex-
pertinent Station, 10 addition to or
ganizing and looking after the details
and management of the enormous vol
ume OF scientific work under his care
referred to above, has supervised and
largely edited nine annual reports and
forty eight bulletins. He has deliver
ed over one hundred and fifty lectures
upon agricultural subjects before ag-
ricultural meetings in the state, and
about thirty-five lectures on educa-
tional and scientific topics before 9TH
er assemblies in this State. He has
been called upon for lectures and adj
dresses upon agricultural and scien-
tifc topics in Canada, New York, Mas
sachusetts, Pennsylvania, District of
Columbia, North Carolina, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Lou
isana, Colorado, Illinois, Wisconsin
and Ohio. The work of the Expert
ment station under his direction has
received ample recognition among the
Experiment stations of this country,
and has been literally copied and quo
ted in Canada, Great Britain, France,
Germany and Australia.
DR.. Myers has had the happy facul-
ty Of gathering around him staff Of
most carefully trained and highly ed
ucated scientific men. In fact, with
single exception, and he has gained
a national reputation, the members of
his present staff are all graduates and
post graduates of noted educational
institutions Of this country. DR.. Ny
ers himself is graduate and post
graduate OF an eminent institution in
this country, and spent three years
in careful study and preparation for
his work at German Universities. In
addition to this, before entering upon
the great work of directing and organ
izing the West Virginia Agricultural
Experiment Station, which has been
so successfully conducted under him,
he had organized and for number of
years conducted the work of the State
Chemist in Mississippi, where he also
had extensive experience extending
over number Of years in organizing
and conducting work of an education
al character connected with the cele-
brated Mississippi Agricultural Col
lege, which is probably the leading in
stitution of its kind in the South.
DR.. Myers is a native of West Vir-
ginia and still owns the home farm
upon which he grew up, in Ohio coun-
ty, near Wheeling. 1t may be safely
asserted without fear of successful
contradiction, that there is no man In
West Virginia who carries with him
the ripe scholarship, the eminent sci
entific attachments, and the wealth
of experience in station work that are
at the command of the Director whom
the Board of Regents have seen fit,
without any assignable cause, to re-
move from his position. He is one of
the eight Directors in the entire Uni
ted States, who has been able to sus-
tain himself since the organization of
the Experiment Stations to the pres
ent time. To fill this vacancy will be
a difficult task. To select an inferior
man would be a misfortune, and it
win be hard to find the equal of DR..
Myers.