University Missourian., 1915-10-01
DAIRY DEPARTMENT
PROUD OF RESULTS
Graduate Classes in M. u.
College of Agriculture In
crease in Popularity.
q COMPLETE WORK
And Present Enrolment Is
f.. Largest in America, Say
Those in Charge.
q COMPLETE WORK

the last four years. with the largest
class this year to be found in Amer.
lea, is the record of the dairy depart
ment of the University of Missouri
College of Agriculture This is in a
state that, according to the census re-
port of 1909, ranks thirteenth in the
dairy industry of the country.
The work is relatively new in the
college The department has been Or
ganized for only fourteen years and
the growth of dairying as a state in
dustry has been within the last ten or
fifteen years. This means young in
dustry, compared with that of older
states east and north of Missouri
where the leaders in the dairy indus
try are found.
In 1909 the first graduate work was
done in dairy husbandry. Since that
date graduate degrees have been Civ
en- to thirty-two men who have spec
ialized in this department Nor are
these students all native MissOurians.
Men have taken up graduate work at
Missouri from the following states:
New Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland,
Wisconsin, Ohio, Mississippi, Texas,
Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa
and Utah.
This Years Graduate Students.
The graduate students in dairying
this year are: w. B. Combs, 1915
tor in dairy husbandry at the Texas
College of Agriculture; L. L. Rum
NELL, C. E. Wylie and Robert Wylie,
all graduates of Ohio State College,
and w. w. SWEET, of the New Hamp-
shire Agricultural College.
The graduate students in 1915 were
all from outside the state. o. l. Oshel
of the 1915 group did undergraduate
work at the Kansas State Agricul-
tural College. He is now in dairy
extension work with the Purdue Uni
versity Extension Division in l..
ana. l.. S. Riford came from the Ne y
Hampshire College and is now with
the dairy department of the New Jer.
sey Experiment Station. A. c. STAN
ton came from the Maryland Agri-
cultural College for his graduate work
and went back to that institution as
assistant professor of dairy hus-
bandry. A. E. Talbutt came from the
Oklahoma Agricultural College and
returned to his native state to engage
in practical dairy work.
Many Teachers From NJ. Q.
Two main reasons are given for the
popularity of graduate work in dairy
ing at Missouri One is.that the grad
yates are making places for them
selves at other institutions. Men who
did graduate work at Missouri are
now occupying the following posi-
tions: Professor of dairy husbandry
in Oregon Agricultural College. Uni
versity of Idaho, Connecticut Agricul-
tural College, North Dakota Agricul-
tural College and Kansas State Agri-
cultural College: associate professor
of dairy husbandry in the Minnesota
College of Agriculture; assistant pro-
fessor in dairy husbandry in Univer-
sity of Nebraska. Iowa State College.
Utah Agricultural College and Mary
land Agricultural College.
A second reason given is that Prof.
c. H. Eckles, who is in charge of the
dairy department, is probably. the
most widely known dairy specialist in
the United States. Within the last
two years he has received many in
vitations to lecture at farmers insti-
tutes and meetings similar to Farm
ers' Week here. He has talked at the
following farmers short course in the
last two winters: Pennsylvania State |
College and Minnesota, Massachu-
setts, Texas and Oregon Colleges of
In 1914 he also addressed |
the British Columbia Dairyman's As
sociation, near Vancouver. In the |
Graduate School of Agriculture at the
University of Missouri the summer CT
1914, Professor Eckles had charge of |
the dairy work