Agriculture -- Study and teaching

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Correspondence, printed bulletins and programs, clippings, and other materials from the files of Andrew D. Hopkins, Head, Department of Entomology, West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, relating to the West Virginia Experiment Station, farmers' institutes, and the Blennerhasset Park project of 1935. The correspondence is by, or mentions, John A. Myers, A.D. Hopkins, C.R. Orton, and W. G. Peterkin.

Scope and Contents Includes records of the West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station. Records include incoming and outgoing correspondence for and from Agricultural Experiment Station directors and staff, a minute book, Experiment Station Reports, photograph albums, papers, and glass plate negatives. The records document the Experiment Station's work researching injuries to crops, problems with poultry and livestock, soil and fertilizer, etc. Series include:Series 1, Correspondence,...

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A prospectus advertising "Farmers' Week and the Farmers' Winter Courses to be held at the College of Agriculture, West Virginia University" starting on January 3, 1916 (11 1/2 in. x 27 in.). This item is Series 16, No. 3 of the West Virginia University Bulletin, and was separated from a bound volume for preservation.

Scope and Contents Twenty glass plate negatives (with one print) of West Virginia University College of Agriculture activities, created circa 1890-1910. Subjects include chicken houses, Kanawha orchard, butter making, students in class, tufted titmouse in basket on tree, drove of cattle, vineyard at French Creek, dairy machinery, female canners, Dr. John A. Myers and Hopkins at their desks, Professor F. W. Rane teaching, Prof. L. William Rane in the horticulturalist room, John Alva Myers, milk weighing, Hite...