The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15

MIR. POWelI COuuuC'9 - . .
culture and horticulture on MS iarm at
Client, New YORK u, 90 .
nonular and efficient worker IN FARM
aers; institutes in New York State
where he is also actively engaged IN
dairy farming. He has been associated
in I1stitute work in New York with
tho veteran Geo. T. Powell since the
1atter,s first year as director and is a
"iaver and able lecturer as well as a
capital farmer.
Samuel b. Hedges has been for years
a welI.known figure 10 school ana In
stitnte work and has made for himself
a wide and enviable reputation III the
field of Horticulture. "
He is a native and resident of York
County. Pa, where he has hlied many
nrominent positions in educaIlonal ana
and scientific circles. In 1894 ne was
annointed Pomologist of the u, ;. De
naitment of Agriculture and held that
position until August, 1897, filling 1t
Win credit to himself and to the De-
na,tment In addition to labors OF a
more nubllc nature, Prof. Heighes has
hpen for twenty-five years careful oo-
server and perimenter IN 1rulG cui-
ture and poultry raising, ana ne Is
never happier than when lmpartlng
instruction on these or other topics
which have claimed his special lnves-
tigation. He is honorary menoer vi
mauy scientific and literary socletles.
III. J. Patterson, chemist ana vice,
Director of the Maryland Agricultural
Experimental Station, is a graduate OF
Pennsylvania State College. After
graduation he took post graduate
Course in that institution and served
for two years as first asst. chemist OF
the Pa. Expt. Station, resignlng thaI
in 1888 to accept the position OF cheIh-
isl in the Mary land Station. =,
Mr. Patterson has been Identified
with the farm all his life and with ex-
perimental work since he was thirteen
years old, He has been frequent
Contributor to the leading agflcult-
ural and scientific papers and has con-
Quoted the fertilizer department OF the
MARYLAND Farmer for several years.
Mr.. Patterson is fellow OF the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science; member OF the 80
ciety for the Promotion OF Agrlcult-
urai Science, whose membership Is linz
tied to 100: of the Society of Chemical
Industry, London. England; ana oil the
American Chemical Society, and was
fol- two years reporter on foods ana
feeding sluffs for the Association OF VI
fetal Agricultural Chemists.
HIS work ON the feeding value OF
corn fodder has received national repu-
talion and bulletin number 20 of the
Maryland Station on that SUBJECT has
been more largely quoted and reprint
ed 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, fertl-
lizers, dairylng, The growing and cur,
ing OF tobacco and other topics OF agrl-
cultural interest.
w. q. johnson, Prof. of Entomol
ogy of the Maryland Agricultural Sta
ton, and Maryland State EntOmolo'
gist, was born in Ohio in 1866. He
studied for three years in his special
work at the Ohio State University, al
the same time working on the uni
versity farm. Having been compelled
by i'll health to desist for time from
his studies, he again resumed them il
1883 at Cornell University, in New
York, completing course of science
there in the tall Of 1891. In order tC
better equip himself as an entomologis
he went to California in 1892 and Ell
tered Stanford University, where ht
was made assistant IN the Department
Of Entomology and had uneXcelleC
opportunities for the study of econom
ic entomology, and especially the Sar
Jose and other scale insects. Leaving
Stanford University in 1894 with the
degree of Master of Science, he: wa:
appointed Assistant Entomologist III
the Illinois State Laboratory of Natu
raj History. While there he was de
tailed to do the field and laboratory ex
perlmental work and also to teach III
the University of Illinois. He left Iii.
inois in 1876 to accept his present posi-
ton in Maryland.
In California and Illinois he pre-.
scented many lectures on economic top.
les before Farmers Institutes and Hor.
tlcultural Societies aud contributed pa.
pers to nearly all the prominent agri.
cultural aud horticultural periodicals.
He is also regular contributor to the
leading chronological journals pub.
llshed Ill this country and is member
at the American Association of Eco.
nomlc EntomolUgists, of the Entomo-
lagical Society of Washington, of the
Biological Society. &C.
Among his recent contributions to
chronological literature are mono.
graph of sixty-fve pages on "The
Mediterranean Flour Moth" a pest
winch has recently made its appear.
ance in this country; Descriptions OF
Five New Species of Scale Insects
with Notes on Their Life Histories, i"
ana bulletin No. As of the Maryland
Agriculture Experiment Station.
Charles Herbert Lake is a native OF
Massachusetts and came to MARYLAND
III the sixties. AS boy he developed
strong love for bee culture and has
made Bookkeeping the study and bust.
ness OF his life. His apiaries. four in
hent County and five in Baltimore
county, contains upward of three hun
ureu hlVes and he Is also apiarist of the
maryland Agricultural College, where
NE mas under his charge the college
aplary OF fifty or seventy-five hives.
lie has taken his pet insect for bis
model, however, and is hustler, run
hing his business not only for the love
OF IL but also for the money to be made
ron IL. AS the result of a lifelong
study ne is thoroughly conversant
win the habits and needs of lis little
pets aud handles them aud talks
about them in a way 10 make the
most cold-blooded enthusiastic. AS a
propagation of improved varieties and
exhibitor OF bees and their products,
ne mas won numerous medals and
nlaqe himself familiar at most of the