we have paid $1,000 upon the debt on the building. This leaves a debt of about $1,400 which we expect to be able to pay between this and the first of next June. Everything at the Experiment Station is moving along smoothly and satisfactorily. Pursuant to the orders of the board in regard to the Station Staff helping out with the instruction in the University, I would say that Mr. Hite is prepared to give lectures of two hours per week upon Organic Chemisiry, and Mr. Hopkins is prepared to give the necessary instruction in entomology in the spring term. I will try to give two hours' lecture a week upon Advanced Agriculture. It, however, should be understood that it should not interfere with the work of anyone connected with the Experiment Station. The attention of the board is called to the fact that every member of the Station Staff is putting in more hours than is considered a day's work by the members of the Faculty, and that whenever additional labor is piled on to the Station Staff, to that extent it will cripple its efficiency. A member of the University Faculty generally feels like he had done his duty when he has lectured not exceeding three hours a day and gets three months vacation. Members of the Station Staff are compelled to be at their posts from about eight o'clock in the morning until about five or six in the evening, and frequently at night, and gets only 30 days vacation and frequently cannot take that. We feel that the board will not intention ally do the Station Staff injustice by piling upon them excess ive duties, and we hope they will also bear in mind that the law does not permit the expenditure of the Station appropriation for teaching. Mr. Hite does not say anything about additional compensation for teaching. Mr. Hopkins feels that he is entitled to additional salary if called upon to teach in the University. The board or the Station Committee should audit the Station accounts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, as we are required in a short time to report the expenditures to the gov ernment. The auditor informs me that he has the books ready for the consideration of any committee of the board that may be appointed. I believe the Legislature at its last meeting made provisions for securing some land, and I am not certain whether it was for the Station or for the University. The board will do well to consider the advisibility of securing a farm at the earliest possible opportunity, as it is impossible to run an effective agricultural department in the University, or to carry on the best Experiment Station work without more land than we have available. In the Experiment Station we are doing the highest class of scientific work, and our work and Station Staff are recognized among the Experiment Stations of the country as being among the very best, and we desire to improve upon our work as soon as the board can provide proper facilities. The director is not aware of anything in the Experiment Station requiring any action of the board at the present time. It will be necessary in the early future to provide an additional stenographer, but this matter can be acted upon by the Station committee as has been the custom in the past. Respectfully submitted, JOHN A. MYERS, Director. West Va. Agricultural Experiment Station. FINANCIAL OF THE REPORT WEST VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION United States Appropriation. 1894-'95. UNITED STATES APPROPRIATION—1894-'95. To receipts from the Treasury of the United States as per appropriation for fiscal year ending June 30, as per Act of Congress approved March 2, 1887, $15,000 00 All personal service not reported under salaries, but not included labor on buildings, improvements or repairs. Monthly employes. No. 5; average rate, 25.80. Work that cannot be classified as above including teams, plowing, harrowing, &c Total First Monthly Employes: ... 927 45 1,459 05 370 55 $2,757 05 Second Daily Employes: For printing annual reports-No. of pages For envelopes for bulletins and reports, $436.71* Total 252 28 252 28 Bulletins and annual report printed by the State. *The Station book-keeper has classified envelopes for bulle tins and reports as stationery. (See abstract 4, part.) ABSTRACT 4-POSTAGE AND STATIONERY. The total amount expended for postage and stationery is $984.87, (see page 3 ante). This includes $436.71 for envelopes for bulletins and reports, (see abstract 3, at page 6 ante). ABSTRACT 6-HEAT, LIGHT AND WATER. *Under this head we classify photographic plates and sundry photographic materials, soap, paint, &c. ABSTRACT 8-SEEDS, PLANTS AND SUNDRY SUPPLIES *The greater part of the materials purchased under this head was paid for from State funds under the head of "Building and Repair." ABSTRACT 9-FERTILIZER. The fertilizers bought were principally stable manure for which we paid at the rate of $1.00 per two-horse wagon load, and a limited amount of commercial fertilizer bought at the market prices. ABSTRACT 10-FEEDING STUFF. We have no farm and hence do not raise grain. |