The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-10
Brief Sketches of the Lecturers for
the Coming Farmers Institute.

The following brief sketches of the
lecturers who viii appear in this city
in connection with the Farmers Insti-
tutes, December Goth and olst, may I've
of interest to our readers:
II. j. PATTERSON.
III. j. Patterson, chemist and Vice
Director Of the Md. Agrl. Expt. Sta
ton, is Il graduate of Penn. Safe Col
lege. After graduation he took post
graduate course IN that institution and
served for two years rs tirst-assistant
chemist of the Pa. Expt. Station, re-
signing that ia 1855 to arcept the posi-
ton of chemist in the Maryland Sta
ton. Mr.. Patterson has been identified
with the farm all his life aud with ex-
perimental WORK siuce he was thirteen
years old.
JAMES $. ROBINSON.
James S. Robinson, Professor of
Botany and Horticulture at the Mary
land Agriculture College and Expert
ment Station, is native nf Maryland,
the family homestead which he now
possesses near the Severn river in Anne
Arundel Co, having clustered about it
the traditions OF six generations of his
ancestors. Passing from the public
schools othis native county he finished
his education at Dickinson College in
Pa, and Immediately engaged in farm
ing. He is one of the pioneer fruit and
truck farmers of Anne Arundel and no
man is better versed in the details of
that intricate business, from the pre-
paration of the soil to the marketing of
the crops. The disposal of perishable
produce has been made a speciality by
him and some of the results of his eX-
perimental marketing from the Station
as reported in its bulletins aud told by
him in his lectures have been revela-
ton to the most experienced.
ROBERT II. MILLER.
Robert HI. Miller, Director of the
Maryland Agrl. Expt. Station, is
resident of Montgomery Co., Maryland,
where he holds large landed interests.
His education was begun in the local
schools and completed in Philadelphia.
Immediately after leaving school, he
began farming and is one of the most
successful in the Sandy Spring section,
so justly celebrated for good farming.
His hobby, as he calls it, has been the
improvement of worn out lands, an art
so needed in Maryland, and his three
fine farms, now in a high state of
profitable cultivation, attest his skill as
soil renovator. On his own farms
his speclalties are sheep husbandry,
fattening cattle, sheep and swine. AS
Director, Mr.. Miller has put into prac-
tice at the Station the same energetic
methods which have brought him sue
cess in his private life, aud is there
teaching lessons Impractical agriculture
which are at once an example and
stimulus to the farmers of Maryland.
S. IL. TODD.
S. H. Todd was born in Ohio. His
parents left their native State of Con-
necticut while young, and settled in
the wilderness of Ohio, country with
out roads, school-houses or churches.
They commenced bravely the struggle
with poverty. Under such circum-
stances he was born and was introduced
at once into practical everyday life.
His father trained his children to work,
and he was connected with all the
business on the farm, especially with
the stock which bis father kept. When
but eight years old he was left with the
entire charge of the farm and stock
while his parents visited their old
home. He always manifested an in
tense interest in the sheep and hogs
and early learned their characteristics
and habits. He received somewhat
limited education at Oberlin College,
and was soon pressed into public life.