Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-04
board of the Maine Experiment Sta


ton.
He helped in organizing the Maine
Dairymen's Association at Winthrop,
November 30, 1898 and was elected
| it's first president. In 1901 to 1903 he
was member Of the State Senate
and while in the senate he was chair
man of the committee on agriculture.
| Mr.. Alden was the first man to sug-
| gest the idea of state experimental
! farms which was authorized by the
| legislature in 1909.
At the time of his death he was a
member. Of the Board of Trustees in
the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at
Kents Hill and also a member Of the
! Experiment Station Council.
Preceding the election of the can
didate to the Hall of Fame, the re-
! port of the special committee on
/ Needs of the College Of Agriculture
and the Maine Agricultural Expert
ment Station was read by r. L.
Washburn, Commissioner of Agricul-
! ture, Augusta.
| This report was made after a long
study by the special committee, con-
sisting of Mr.. Washblrn, E. c. Buzz
zell, Charles w. Gillispie, Ray Hews,
w. ]. Kicker.
The report itself was divided into
two sections, first dealing with the
! needs of the College of Agriculture
and second, with the needs of the
Maine Experiment Station. The pro-
gram OF development is to be divided
! over period of ten years. A brief
summary of the recommendation
| for the program Of building and de-
I velopment Is as follows: 1925-26,
new dairy building. and a second
90 fhA
building for the Home Economics
department.; 1929-30, Horticultural
and Machinery buildings; 1912,
| poultry plant and poultry husbandry
| building with a third unit of the
! greenhouse plan; in 1933-34 q de-
| velopmunt comparable to that out
| line suggested for the foregoing per-
iod along those lines with an actual
study of the needs Of the college and
! Of our agriculture shall disclose, to
| be the most valuable and practical,
| such study and recommendations to
be made by representatives Of the
Federation.
Several suggestions for the devel-
opment in courses of study were
made along the following lines: More
| adequate instruction in agricultural
economics embracing study of
marketing agricultural statistics, CO.
operative marketing and agricultur-
al finance and strengthening the
various courses in forestry econom-
les.
The final recommendation OF the
College of Agriculture was for incor-
poration in the University budget of
an annual appropriation Of $4,000 for
repair and maintenance Of buildings
and for, the purchase of needed farm
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f,ture alone.
In regard to the Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station the first prominent
recommendation was for $4,000 a
year appropriation for the increase
OF salaries. In the study the COM
mittee found that the employees Of
the Experiment Station were greatly
underpaid both in regard to amount
and kind of work they are doing and
in comparison with similar institu-
tons.
Z The report further recommended
the addition OF two members to the
staff, chemist and an economic en-
tomologist and also provided an adj |
ditional $4,000 annually to be used by |
the director and council for repairs J
and maintenance of buildings. For |
the salaries Of the new members of |,
the staf $1,000 was suggested an
nually
The report Of the special commit
tee on taxation was read by c. o.
burlington.
The following officers were elected |
at the close Of the meeting: John w.
Leland, Dover -Foxcroft, reelected
PRESIDENT w. H. Conant Of Buckfield
Reelected vice president; A. L. T.
Cummings, Portland reelected Sec
retary and treasurer. The executive
committee consists OF F. p. Wash
burn, commissioner of Agriculture,
Augusta; W. c. Hunton. Portland;