Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-10-07

ington county. n. Y. Having grad
usted from the Granville Military
Academy rs gold medalist aud cap
tain he entered Cornell University
in New York and five years later
graduated with the degree of b. S.
in agriculture.
After graduating, he remained
at Cornell two years as assistant TO
Prof. Roberts. He established the
poultry department at Cornell aud
his lectures on poultry were the
fiEst ever delivered in an agricultu-
ral college.
After ie&vihg Cornell, Mr. Rice
established himself upon a farm
where he is making big success
with poultry and small fruits, put
ting into practice himself the Cos
pei which he breaches to others.
As lecturer he is bright, enteE-
tanning and full of information
which he has the happy gift of i'm
parting to his audience. His spec
ialities are poultry and small fruits
but he is generally at home in dis
cussing the garden, the silo, and
other agricultural subjects.
George L. Powell is one of the
best known men in agricultural
lines in the United States. As a
practical farmer who has solved the
question of how to make the fars,
pay, as writer on farming and ag-
ricultural economies and lecturer
in schools and institutes he has
made a national reputation and i'm
pressed himself upon his times as a
leader in agricultural education.
He has devoted his whole life to
the study and practice of agricul-
ture and horticulture. For years
he was the director of the Farmers
Institutes of New York and was
Director of the horticultural De-
partment fer New York at the Chi
cago Exposition.
As special agent of business men
of New York to investigate the
causes that were sending people
sfE0m- -Ihs~ eaantEy--se~she-eity he
FL shed "a widely circulated report
recon ihending agricultural educa-
ton on the University Extension
plan as the remedy. His recon-
mendation was adopted and he was
appointed to inaugurate the work
by Cornell and Columbia Universe
ties and is at present employed by
Cornell to lecture on Nature in
the schools ofthat State. In addi-
ton to his other work, Mr.. Powell
conducts school of agriculture
and horticulture on his farm at
Client, n. Y.
A. r. Eastman is we'll known as
popular and efficient worker in
Farmers Institutes in New York
State where he is also actively en-
gagged in dairy farming. He has
been associated in institute work
in New York with the veteran Geo.
L. Powell since the latter's first
year as Director and in a clever and
able lecturer as we'll as capital
farmer.
Samuel b. Hedges has been for
years a well known figure in school
and institute work and has made
for himself wide and enviable
reputation in the field of Horticul-
ture.
he is a native AID resident of
York county, Pa, where he has
filled many prominent positions in
educational and scientific circles.
In 1894 he was appointed Pomolo.
gist of the c. s. Dept. of Agricul-
ture and held that position until
August 1897, filing it with credit
to himself and to the Department.
In addition to labors OF a more
public nature Prof. Heiges has been
for twenty-five years a careful OBJ
server and experimentor in fruit
culture and poultry raising. and he
lis never happier that when impart.
ing instruction on these or other
topics which have claimed investi-
CATION. He is honorary member of
many scientific and literary socie-
| ties.
III. j. Patterson, chemist and
Vice-Director of the Maryland Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station is =
graduate of Pennsylvania State
College. After graduation he took
a post graduate course in that in
stitution and served for two years
"a first assistant chemist of the