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AGRICULTURAL BOARD
NAMED BY GOVERNOR
DIR. GoOdnow, Carl II. Gray, Robert
Grain And State Treasurer Dennis
Among Personnel-Stafl Also is
Announced.

Governor Harrington announced
last night the members OF his stan
and also the personnel OF the new
State Board of Agriculture.
His staff officers are:
Judge Advocate General, b. How
ell Griswold, Jr, of Baltimore.
Quartermaster General, Carl h.
GRAY. president of the Western Mary
land Railway.
INSPECTOR General, George Z. Ca
tor, of Baltimore.
Surgeon General, DR.. William ;.
Baer, of Baltimore.
Colonies:
Edmund S. Dickey, Baltimore
county.
State Senator Harvey l.. Cooper, OF
Caroline county.
DR.. J. Hubert Wade, of Washing
ton county.
Harry J. Hopkins, of Anne Arun-
del county.
John Rush Street. of Hartford
county.
Henry J. Waters, of Somerset
county.
George w. Rife, of Baltimore.
z. H. Brinsfeld, of Dorchester
county.
Charles R. Disharoon, of Wicomi-
CO county.
Charles E. McPhail, of Baltimore.
The Agricultural Board consists
Of:
DR.. Frank J. Goodnow, president
Of Johns Hopkins University
State Treasurer John NJ. Dennis.
Carl R. Gray.
Robert Grain.
Samuel M. Shoemaker, of Balti-
more county.
B. John Black, of Baltimore
county.
Col. Albert w. Sisk, of Caroline
county.
W. w. Skinner, of Montgomery
county.
Henry Holzapfel, of Washington
county.
The probability, is that DR.. Good
now will be made chairman OF the
Agricultural Board. DR.. Goodnow as
chairman of the Economy and EfficI-
ency Commission, that recommended
the program of financial and govern
mental reform for the State, follow
ed by the last Legislature in its
merging of many State offices, is in
a position to be of signal service on
the Agricultural Board, one of the
most important in Maryland. This
Board will have control of the States
work having to do with live stock
and other departments of farming,
and the like, and will constitute also
the board of trustees of the Maryland
Agricultural College.
Mr.. Gray was not considered for a
place on the commission until last
week, although he had been settled
on as a member of the Governors
stan. However, he went down to the
MARYLAND Agricultural College to
make. an address on Founders Day,
and convinced everybody who heard
him speak that he was more than or
dinarily qualified to discuss agricul-
ture. The Governor began to think
of him in connection with place on
the board, and about the same time
letters began to reach the Governor
from a number of friends suggesting
the same thing. Therefore, the Gov
ernor decided to honor him with the
two appointments at once.
Mr.. Grain, whose great estate in
Charles county has endowed him
with the honorary title of Maryland
or and who also is a well-known law
yer of Baltimore, was a member of
the last board of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College.
It was largely through the efforts
of Mr.. Shoemaker that the bill Great
ing the Agricultural Board was push
ed in the last Legislature. He was
chosen chairman of a committee of
o11ind q oriaI,1trra1 i1of IF
the State, which combined just to
urge the passage of the measure, one
that has the unqualified Endorsement
of farmers as well as of others who
have an interest in the development
of Maryland's farming, stock-raisine
and fruit-growing industries and in
the State school at College Park.
BY virtue of his being president OF
the State Grange, and thus in closer
touch with Maryland farmers, per-
haps, than any other man in Mary
land, Mr.. Black was given place on
the board.
Mr.. Skinner is a graduate of the
Maryland Agricultural College, and
the alumni association of the institu-
ton backed him to man for the
place. Mr. Holzapfel was a member
of the previous board of the college
It was considered rather likely that
the Governor would appoint as his
successor E. P. Cohill, the Washing
ton county fruit grower, as Western
Maryland's representative. Mr.. Holz-
APPEL was retained. The board is an
unpaid one.
OF the military staff officers most
Of them are too well known through
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lar Introduction. Mr. Gray, although
comparatively recent conner to Bal
timore and Maryland, has already