University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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Agricultural Experiment Station STAFF P. H. Rolfs, M.S., Director S. E. COLLISON, M.S., Chemist H. L. Dozier, B.S., Laboratory Assistant in Plant Pathology B. F. Floyd, A.M., Plant Physiologist J. Matz, B.S., laboratory Assistant in Plant Pathology J. M. Scott, M.S., Vice-Director and Animal Industrialist C. I). SlIKRBAKOFF, M.S., PH.D., Assistant Plant Pathologist H. E. STEVKNS, M.S., Plant Pathologist T. Van Hyning, Curator of Museum and Librarian J. R. Watson, A.M., Entomologist C. K. McQUARRlE, State Agent of Farmers’ Demonstration Work and Assistant Superintendent Farmers’ Institutes eighteen

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PEABODY HALL, the house of the Teachers College and Normal School, is a large brick building of the same architecture as the other buildings on the campus. It is here that the future teacher “learns his trade.” Here he investigates the mind (his and others), learns to instruct the “young idea,” and prepares himself for “a leader of men.” Under the able direction of Dr. Harvey W. Cox, Dean of the Teachers College and Normal School, and his efficient assistants, the future teacher is given a deeper insight into his profession. He finds that there is no profession in which the individual gives more of himself, his time, education, ideas, and talents, than the teaching profession. The efforts of the faculty of the Teachers College and Normal School do not end with the Senior Class, but extend out into the High Schools of Florida and many other states. There are today in the State of Florida many men and women, boys and girls, who are the direct descendants, intellectually, of our faculty, the finished products of our laboratories.

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AGRICULTURAL Experiment Stations are institutions founded by Congressional act the purpose of which is to acquire and diffuse agricultural knowledge. The Florida station was founded in 1888 and has continued without interruption. In acquiring knowledge there are several departments in which lines of investigation are carried on as follows; horticulture, including the introduction, breeding, and propagation of plants; animal industry, including the study of feed crops, the effect of feeding certain crops to cattle and hogs and the growing of feed and forage crops; agronomy, including the breeding of cotton, corn, and other farm crops; plant pathology, including the study of plant diseases produced by fungi and bacteris; plant physiology, including the study of plants as affected by fertilizers and soil conditions; chemistry, including the study of fertilizers and soils, especially as to their effects on plants; entomology, including the study of insecticides and insects and their parasites. The staff which is engaged at the Florida Experiment Station has secured some very interesting and instructive information in the above fields and the method of diffusing this knowledge is in publications, which are of three classes; bulletins, press bulletins, and annual reports which are constantly being completed and are delivered free upon request. nineteen