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WEST VIRGINIA TREES

BULLETIN 175

Agricultural Experiment Station

College of Agriculture

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY

Morgantown

JOHN LEE COULTER, Director

Bulletin 175 September, 1920

Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agriculture, West Virginia University

JOHN LEE COULTER, Director,

MORGANTOWN

West Virginia Trees

A. B. BROOKS

Bulletins and Reports of this Station will be mailed free to any citizen of West Virginia upon written application. Address Director of the West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, Morgantown, W. Va.

THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA

Educational Institutions

THE STATE BOARD OF CONTROL

E. B. STEPHENSON, President Charleston, W. Va. JAMES S. LAKIN Charleston, W. Va. J. M. WILLIAMSON Charleston, W. Va.

The State Board of Control has the direction of the financial and business affairs of the state educational institutions.

THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

M. P. SHAWKEY, President Charleston, W. Va.

State Superintendent of Schools

GEORGE S. LAIDLEY Charleston, W. Va. NOAH G. KEIM Elkins, W. Va. EARL W. OGLEBAY Wheeling, W. Va. FRANK N. SYCAFOOSE Webster Springs, W. Va. L. W. BURNS Grafton, W. Va. W. C. COOK Welch, W. Va.

The State Board of Education has charge of all matters of a purely scholastic nature concerning the state educational institutions.

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY

FRANK BUTLER TROTTER, LL.D. President

Agricultural Experiment Station Staff

JOHN LEE COULTER, A.M., Ph.D. Director BERT H. HITE, M.S. Vice-Director and Chemist FRANK B. KUNST, A.B. Assistant Chemist CHARLES E. WEAKLEY, Jr. Assistant Chemist W. E. RUMSEY, B.S.Agr. State Entomologist N. J. GIDDINGS, Ph.D. Plant Pathologist ANTHONY BERG, B.S. Assistant Plant Pathologist ERNEST L. ANTHONY, M.S. Dairyman H. O. HENDERSON, M.S. Assistant Dairyman HORACE ATWOOD, M.S.Agr. Poultry Research E. L. ANDREWS, B.S.Agr. Assistant in Poultry Husbandry ROBERT M. SALTER, M.Sc. Soil Investigations R. E. STEPHENSON, M.S. Assistant in Soil Investigations I. S. COOK, Jr., B.S.Agr. Research Agronomist T. C. McILVANE, M.S.Agr. Assistant Agronomist R. P. BLEDSOE, M.S. Assistant Agronomist J. K. SHAW, Ph.D. Horticulturist H. A. JONES, Ph.D. Assistant Horticulturist L. F. SUTTON, B.S., B.S.Agr. Assistant Horticulturist H. E. KNOWLTON, B.S.Agr. Assistant Horticulturist H. L. CRANE, M.S.Agr. Assistant Horticulturist ROLAND H. PATCH, M.S. Assistant Horticulturist H. W. RICHEY, B.S.Agr. Assistant Horticulturist ERNEST ANGELO, B.S.Agr. Assistant Horticulturist L. M. PEAIRS, M.S. Research Entomologist E. A. LIVESAY, M.S.Agr.. Animal Husbandry R. H. TUCKWILLER, B.S.Agr. Assistant in Animal Husbandry C. V. WILSON, B.S.Agr. Assistant in Animal Husbandry A. J. DADISMAN, M.S.Agr. Farm Economics C. A LUEDER, D.V.M. Veterinary Science C. E. STOCKDALE, B.S.Agr. Agricultural Editor D. M. WILLIS, LL.M. Financial Secretary J. C. JOHNSTON Chief Clerk MARY A. FOX Assistant Librarian