Author: Pennsylvania State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Report of the Transactions of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society
Author: Pennsylvania State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Report of the Transactions of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society ...
Author: Pennsylvania state agricultural societyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Annual Report of the Transactions of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society
Author: Pennsylvania State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Report of the Transactions of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society
Author: Pennsylvania State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Annual Report of the Transactions of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society
Author: Pennsylvania State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Report of the Transactions of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382113503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Report of the Transactions of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780371562277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Report of the Transactions of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society; Volume 1
Author: Pennsylvania State Agricultural SocietyPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022831056
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive report on the activities of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in the early 20th century. The authors provide detailed information on everything from livestock shows to crop yields. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in agricultural history or the history of Pennsylvania. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Transactions of the Illinois State Agricultural Society, with Reports from County and District Agricultural Societies
Author: Illinois State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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.