Author: John Lord HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year
Author: John Lord HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year ...
Author: New York (State). Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Author: Liberty Hyde BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture
Author: United States Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture
Author: New York (State). Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State
Author: Roger L. WilliamsPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271090472
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic, social, and political standing of Pennsylvania’s farmers. After being elected founding president of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in 1851, he used his position to advocate vigorously for the establishment of an agricultural college that would employ science to improve farming practices. He went on to secure the charter for the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania, which would eventually become the Pennsylvania State University. This biography explores Watts’s role in founding and leading Penn State through its formative years. Watts adroitly directed the school as it was sited, built, and financed, opening for students in 1859. He hired the brilliant Evan Pugh as founding president, who, with Watts, quickly made it the first successful agricultural college in America. But for all his success in launching the institution, Watts nearly brought it to the brink of closure through a series of ruinous presidential appointments that led to an abandonment of the land-grant focus on agriculture and engineering. Watts’s influence in the agricultural modernization movement and his impact on land-grant education in the United States—both in his role with Penn State and later as US commissioner of agriculture—made him a leader in the history of agricultural and higher education. Roger L. Williams’s compelling biography of Watts reestablishes him in this legacy, providing a balanced analysis of his missteps and accomplishments.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting
Author: New York State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture
Author: United States Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories
Author: Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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