The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-23

sending people from the country to the
city he published widely circulated re-
port commencing agricultural education on
the University Extention plan as the
remedy. His recommendation was adopt
ed and he was appointed to inaugurate the
work by Cornell and Columbia Universities
and is at present employed by Cornell to
lecture on Mature in the schools of that
State. In addition to his other work, Mr.
Powell conducts school of agriculture and
horticulture on his farm at Client, New
York
A. r. Eastman is well-known as
popular and efficient worker in Farmers
Institutes in New York State where
he is also actively engaged in dairy
farming. He has been associated in in
stitute work in New York with the veteran
Geo. T. Powell since the latter first year
as director and is clever and able lee
turer as well as capital farmer.
Samuel B. Hedges has been for years a
well known figure in school and institute
work and has made for himself a wide and
enviable reputation in the field Of Horti-
culture.
He is a native and resident of York
county, Pa, where he has filed many
prominent positions in educational and
scientific circles In 1894 he was APP
pointed Pomologist of the t. S. Dept. of
Agriculture and held that position until
August 1897, filling it with credit to him
self and to the Department. In addition
to labors Of more public nature Prof.
Heiges has been for twenty-five years
careful observer and experimenter in fruit
culture and poultry raising, and he is never
happier than when imparting instruction
on these or other topics which have claimed
his special investigation. He is honorary
member of many scientific and literary so
cieties.
H. j. Patterson, chemist and Vice-Di-
rector of the Maryland Agricultural FIX
pertinent Station is graduate of Penn
sylvania State College After graduation
he took a post graduate course in that in
stitution and served for two years as first
assistant chemist of the Pennsylvania Ex-
pertinent Station, resigning that in 1888
to accept the position of chemist in the
Maryland Station
Mr.. Patterson has been identified with
the farm all his life and with experimental
work since he was thirteen years old He
has been a frequent contributor to the lead
ing agricultural and scientific papers and
has conducted the fertilizer department of
the Maryland Farmer for several years.
Mr. Patterson is Fellow of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of
Science; member Of the Society for the
Promotion of Agricultural Science whose
membership is limited TO 1000; Of the So
ciety of Chemical Industry London, Eng
land : and of the American Chemical So
ciety, and was for two years reporter ON
Foods and Feeding Stufs for the Associ-
alton of Official Agricultural Chemists.
His work ON the feeding value Of corn
fodder has received national reputation and
bulletin No. 20 of the Maryland Station
on that subject has been more largely
/ quoted and reprinted possibly than any
other bulletin published in the United
States
Mr. Patterson is well known to the
farmers Of Maryland not only through his
writings, but by his practical talks at
farmers meetings on feeding, fertilizers,
dairying, the growing and curing of to-
bacco and other topics of agricultural IN
| terest.
VIC johnson, Professor of Entomology
of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station and Maryland State Entomologist,
was born in Ohio in 1866 He studied
for three years in his special work at the
Ohio State University at the same time
working on the University farm. Having
been compelled by i'll health to desist for
time from his studies, he again resumed
them in 1883 at Cornell University, in
New York. completing course of
science there in the fall of o. In order
to better equip himself as an entomologist
he went to California in 1892 and entered
Stanford University, where he was made
assistant in the Department of Entomology
and had unexcelled opportunities for the
study of economic entomology, and especi
ally the San Jose and other scale insects.
Leaving Stanford University in "a with
the degree of Master of Science, he was
appointed assistant Entomologist in the
Illinois State Laboratory of Natural His
tory While there he was detailed to do
the field and laboratory experimental work
and also to teach in the University of Hi
nois He left Illinois in 1896 to accept
his present position in Maryland.
In California and Illinois he presented
many lectures on economic topics before
Farmers Institutes and Horticultural So
cieties and contributed papers to nearly all
the prominent Agricultural and Horticul-
tural periodicals. He is also regular
contributor to the leading chronological
Journals published in this country and is a
member Of the American Association of
Economic chronological Society of Wash
ington, of the Biologists, of the Entomo-
logical Society, &c
Among his recent contributions to ento-
molosical literature are monograph of
sixty-fve pages on "The Mediterranean
Flour Moth, a pest which has recently
made its appearance in this country; De
scriptions Of Five New Species of Scale In.
sects with notes ON their Life Histories, .
and bulletin No. II of the Maryland Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station.
Charles Herbert Lake is native of
Massachusetts and came to Maryland in the
Sixties As boy he developed a
strong love for bee culture and has made
bee keeping the study and business of his
life. His apiaries, four in Kent county
and five in Baltimore county, contain up
wards of three hundred hives and he is also
apiarist of the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege, where he has under his charge the
college apiary of fifty or seventy five hives.
He has taken his pet insect for his model,
however, and is a hustler, running his
business not only for the love of it but also
for the money to be made from it. As the
result of lifelong study he is thoroughly
conversant with the habits and needs of his
industrious little pets and handles them and
talks about them in way to make the
most cold-blooded enthusiastic As a
propagation of improved varieties and an