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

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PERSONNEL Shaw, R. S., D. Agr Dean a»d Director Hill, E. B., M. Agr Assistant to the Dean AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING Musselman, H. H.. B. S Head of Defartmcnt Fogle, V. D., B. S -Issistant Professor and Research Assistant Sauve, E. C, B. S ■is ' iistant Professor and Research Assistant Robcy, O. E., B. S Issistant and Sf ' eciatist Gallagher, H. T., M. Agr Instructor and Assistant Hammond, R. E Instructor White, C, M. Ag. Eng Draftsman ANIMAL HUSBANDRY Bro«ii, G. A., B. S Head of Defartmcnt Edwards, W. E. J., M. S Associate Professor and Research Assistant Branaman, G. A., B. S Instructor Freeman, V. A., B. S Speciatist DAIRY HUSBANDRY Reed, O. E.. M. S Head of Department Burnett, J. E., M. Agr Associate Professor and Research Assistant Lucas, P. S., B. S -Issociate Professor and Research Assistant Huffman, C. F., M. S Research Assistant Scott, E. D., M. S Research Assistant and Instructor Taylor, G. E., M. S Instructor and Sup. Ad. Reg. FARM CROPS Cox, J. F., B. S Head of Department Megce, C. R., M. S Associate Professor and Research Assocuite Down, E. E., M. Agr Associate Professor and Research Assoc. (V. S. D. A.) Cormany, C. E.. M. S Assistant Professor and Research .Assistant Pettigrove, H. R., B. S Assistant Professor and Research Assistant Brown, H. M., AI. S Instructor and Research Assistant Duncan, .1. R Instructor and Assistant Moore, H, C, B. S Research Assistant and Specialist Rather, H. C, B. S Specialist Kurtz, L. D., B. S Spcciali. :t Rainey, D. F., B. S Specialist and Assistant Miler, P. T., M. S Specialist Skiver, C. E., B. S Specialist Churchill, B. R., M. S . ' Issistant Professor FARM AND HORSE Hudson, R. S,, B. S Superintendent FORESTRY Chittenden, A. K., M. F Head of Department DeCamp, ,T. C, M. F .Assistant Professor Herbert, P. A., M. F .Assistant Professor and Assistant in Forestry Kroodsma, R. F., M. F Specialist HORTICULTURE Gardner, V. R., M. S Head of Department Bradford, F. C., M. S Associate Professor and Research Associate Marshall, R. D., M. S Associate Professor and- Research Associate Starr, Geo Research Associate Crist, J. S.. Ph.D Research .Assistant Dutton, W. C, M. S Research Associate Partridge, N. L., Ph.D Research .AssLttant Lorec, R. E., M. S .Assistant Professor and Research Assistant Laurie, Alex, M. A Instructor Edmunds, J. P., M. S Instructor LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Halligan, C. P., B. S Head of Department Hide, J. W., B. S Instructor POULTRY HUSBANDRY Card, C. G.. B. S Head of Department Hannah, J. A., R. A Specialist Ferguson, C. M., B. S. Assistant Professor Moore, J. M., M. S Specialist SOILS McCool, M. M., Ph.D Head of Department Bouyoucos, G. L., Ph.D Research Professor Millar, C. E., Ph.D Professor and Research Associate Harmer, P. M., B. S Research Associate eatch, J. O., A. B Research .Associate Spurway, C. H., M. Acr Research Associate Wheeling, L. C, M. S Research Assistant Romainc, J. D., B. S Instructor and Research Assistant Weidman. A. G., B. S Research Assistant Hyde, J. H., B. S Assistant Kellogg, Chas., B. S .Assistant SPECIAL COURSES Tcnny, Ralph. B. S Director CHEMISTRY E.XPERIMENT STATION Patten, A. J., B. S Head of Department Robinson, C. S., Ph.D. ...Research Associate Winter, O. B.. . . B Research Associate Miller, E. T., Ph.D Research Associate Bandemer. Selma, M. S Assistant Page Tuenty-nine

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AGRICULTURE Since the opening of the college seventy years ago, graduates in agriculture have been going forth in large numbers to till the soil and also occupy positions of dignity, importance and usefulness in the educational world. Thus the institution has exercised a gigantic influence in directing the trend of the development of American agriculture. Through the intervening years the courses have been broadened to meet the ever changing demand and permit of a wide range of specialization in general agriculture, forestry, horticulture, land- scape architecture, agricultural economics and agricultural engineering with options in animal and dairy husbandry, poultry, apiculture, crops, soils, etc. This is the fortieth anniversary of the formal organization of the Agricultural Experi- ment Station under the Hatch Act. The large and well trained staff of research workers with well equipped laboratories are busily occupied in attempts to solve some of the many complex problems of the farmer. Scientific research is basic to agricultural education and extension and is responsible for much of the notable progress made in .American agriculture. The Agricultural Extension Division through its administrative officers, county agents, extension specialists and club officials is constantly rendering available to the farmer much new information to aid in economic production and marketing and affords relief from animal and plant diseases and insect pests. R. S. SHAW, B.S.A., Dean of Agriculture. Page Tzventy-eight

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APPLIED SCIENCE Fifteen years after the erection of old College Hall and Saint ' s Rest, in 1856, the first addition to college building equipment ivas the construction of the north and central portions of the chemical laboratory lor which the legislature appropriated ten thousand dollars. Previously, the chemical laboratory had consisted of one-half of the first floor in old College Hall, being well furnished with apparatus and chemicals, and was adequate up to this time (1871). In that year, 141 students were registered, including one resident graduate and eight ladies . Bricks and mortar make a building but do not make a laboratory. The word laboratory means a place in which to work, and men must be there to perform that work. Among the many valuable results which ha e cinanated from the old building are : first complete meteorological record established in Michigan ; the first complete soil survey involving the analysis of more than sixty samples of various soils collected from both the lower and upper peninsula ; the first official analysis of commercial fertilizers offered for sale in the state ; the first official analysis of human food from which the work of the Dairy and Food Commission was later evohed ; the first survey of the school houses, prisons, and charitable institutions of the state invoKing sanitation, ventilation, and water supply for the State Board of Health; com.parison by analysis and baking tests of the arious winter wheats grown in Michigan; determination of the feasibility and probable profit of growing sugar beets in Michigan by testing samples grown in every county in the state. Michigan sugar beet industries thus became established. Every one of the approximately five thousand graduates of this institution (with the exception of possibly one hundred) have taken at least one year ' s study of chemistry in this building. F. S. KEDZIE, D.Sc, Dean of Applied Science. Page Thirty