Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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To Michigan Slate men and women for many of whom Col- lege days will soon be but a memory, I gladly wish the best of things ; a spirit of fellowship, of understanding and of tolerance : a life which will ever be for you one of high adventure, chal- lenging all your strength, and then a sense of achievement of something done that was worth doing. JOHN PHELAN, .■ .M., Dean of lite College. Page TxveiUy-nine

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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE L. Whitney Watkins, Manchester .-...--- Term Expires 192O Mrs. Dora Stockman, Lansing -------- Term Expires 1926 Melville B. McPherson, Lo vell -------- Term Expires 1928 Jay R. McCoU, Detroit ---------- Term Expires 1928 Clark L. Brody, Lansing - - - Term Expires 1930 Herbert Gowdy, I ' nion Pier -------- Term Expires 1930 Hon. Thomas E. Johnson, Ex-oi ficio, Lansing. Kenyon L. Butterfield, Ex-officio, Presiding O fficer. Herman H. Halladay, East Lansing, Secretary. Jacob Schepers, East Lansing, Treasurer. Michigan State College is under the control of a constitutional board known as the State Board o£ Agriculture. The members are elected from the state at large tor a period of six years, two being elected each odd year. The board likewise elects a secretary who is also secretary of the college, and a treasurer, both of whom hold ofifice at the will of the board. L. Whitney Watkins M. B. ilcPherson C. L. Brody H. Gowdy Dora Stockman Page T ' ceuty-cight

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AGRICULTURE The Agricultural Division includes three distinct lines of effort, viz. — Education, Research and Extension. Educational work in agriculture now requires a corps of nearly seventy-five technically trained instructors. The course offered includes general agriculture, forestry, horticulture, landscape architecture and agricultural economics with options in animal and dairy hus- bandry, poultry, crops, soils, apiculture and agricultural engineering. The Agricultural Experiment Station includes a staff of scientific investigators, num- bering about seventy-five persons, including representatives of the science and veterinary divisions. The official research projects with which this staff is engaged numbers nearly two hundred. Four agricultural sub-stations and one for forestry are located in various parts o f the state. The results of research are given to the public by means of bulletins and the public press. The Extension Division carries out to producers from the soil the results of research which have immediate practical application. This staff numbers one hundred and thirty- five persons, including administration, county agents, extension specialists, home demonstra- tion club officials and clerical staff. This division carries the work of the college to the people through direct contact and also by means of specially prepared publications. R. S. SHAW, B.S.A., Dean of Agriculture. Fdge Thirty