The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-06-21
APPOINTED AGRICULTURAL L
AGENT FOR THE RAILROKD
COMPANY WITH HEADQRAf-1
TIERS AT MORGANTOWN:1
Large Appropriation
MAIDS by Company for Work in This
State In Agricultural and Horti-
cultural Lines.-Agent to Cooper
ate with Industrial Bureau Also.

James H. Stewart, formerly di
rector of the West Virginia agri
cultural experiment station, is now
agricultural agent of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad Company, with
headquarters in Morgantown. Mr..
Stewart s appointment is effective
June 1st and is announced in the
following circular issued by the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad com
.pany:
Baltimore, June 1.-Effective
with date, Mr.. j. H. Stewart is ap-.
pointed agricultural. agent of this
company, with office at Morgan
town, w. Va. He will be charged
with the: duty of developing the
agricultural interests of the sys
tenn, particularly in West Virginia :;
I'm inducing immigration; aiding in
idlverHfication of crops; advising
agrlculturalists and horticulturists
as to methods and crops best suited
to their soil; cooperating with
state and federal authorities in the
development of the region tribu-
tary to the system, and exploiting
to other sections of the country the
possibilities existing in the terri
tory under his charge. He will al
so cooperate with the industrial
bureaM, in the location of indus
tries. -
1t is understood that the rail
road company has made an appro
'priation. Of 100000 for the work
in West Virginia, to be done under
the supervision of Mr.. Stewart.
Although no details have been
made public, it is reported that Mr.
Stewart will have a corps of assist
ants in his local office, which will
j pc e. tlhlcoroughAy equipped for the
carrying on of the agricultural de-
partment. The Manufacturers Rec
ord of June 9Th comments as fol-
lows upon Mr.. Stewart appoint
ment:
=. "Mr Stewart comes to the Balti- !
more & Ohio fully equipped, both
by experience and knowledge, to
render invaluable service in the du-
ties assigned to him. His splendid
work as director of the West Vir-
ginia agricultural experiment sta
tion was largely responsible for
awakening the people of the state
to the peculiar adaptability of it's
soils and climate for fruit growing,
dairy farming, truck raising and
the splendid opportunities avail
able in intensive farming.
Gas a result West Virginia is
raising some Of the finest apples
and peaches grown in America; the
Ohio river valley is becoming a
veritable truck garden, throughout
the state, in it's fertile valleys,
coves and table lands, agriculture
and horticultural crops are flour
ishing, dairy farming is steadily
increasing, and generally West
Virginia has been brought to a
realization that it possesses in these
resources. opportunities for devel-
opment that in every way match
the industrial opportunities lying
in it's vast supply Of coal, natural
gas, petroleum, timber, limestone,
glass sand, shales, clays, etc.
"The special attention which the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad has
been giving to West Virginia as re-
hected in the millions of dollars it
is spending upon it's roadbed in
that state; the wide publicity it
has given in the industrial oppor-
tunitieS in the section traversed by
it's line, and the new agricultural
department that has just been ere
ated will prove Of incalcuable ben
eft not only to the section travers-
ed by it's own line, but to West
Virginia as whOlp.o