Evening star., 1925-03-16
POST
IS GIVEN DUNLAP
Ohio Dirt Farmer Named by
Coolidge to Assistant
Secretaryship.

Renick W. Dunlap of Ohio was
| today appointed Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture by President Coolidge.
announcement OF the appointment
| followed conference at the White
House between the President. Mr..
Dunlap and Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine.
Like his newly appointed chief, Mr..
Dunlap Is a dirt farmer. He was
born on farm in Pickaway County.
Ohio, in 1872, has spent practically
his whole life farming and before
coming to Washington was engaged
in the administration of agricultural
affairs in his native State.
Mr.. Dunlap's father, Nelson J. Dunlap,
began farming in the pioneering
days, and now lives on the farm he
first began to operate. Since then
he has acquired more than 1000 acres
OF the best farm land in his section.
On his mothers side. too, Renick w.
Dunlap inherits the instincts of the
farmer. She was a daughter of Hugh
Bell of Chillicothe, Ohio, a farmer and
breeder of short-horn cattle. Mrs. Dun
laps grandfather. too. was one of Ohio's
pioneer farmers
Was Leader mt College.
Mr. Dunlap, who received his early
education in district school, entered
Ohio State University. in the College of
Agriculture, in 1880, and was graduated
in 1895.
- During his college years he was
member of the Horton Literary Society,
helped organize and became president
OF the Townsend Literary Society, an
agricultural society; was a member of
the university senate and one of the
organ nizers Of the Agriculture Student
He was member OF the varsity foot
ball squad for four years. In his senior
year he was captain and manager Of
the team and treasurer of the athletic
association. He was selected several
times as the left end of the mythical
''all-time Ohio eleven"
Since graduation Mr.. Dunlap has spent
most OF his time on his farm In the
Scioto Valley, near Kingston Until
1928 he operated 1t as strictly a grain
cattle and hog farm. That year, how
ever, he added dairy and is shipping
considerable milk, but at the same time
continuing his cattle and hog breeding.
Active I'm State Grange.
Always interested in community and
public affairs, Mr.. Dunlap was chosen
by the State board of agriculture as a
lecturer for the State Farmers Insti-
tute soon after his graduation and
spent many Winters instructing farm
ers not only in Ohio but other States
as well. He became a member of the
State grange as soon as he was old
enough Had he been willing to vote
Tor himself he would have been it's
president in 1911.
the Ohio Farm Bureau since it's or
ganization. He was the first to intro
duce and demonstrate the practical
use of commercial fertilizer in his
community. and the first year after
leaving college raised by this method
more wheat on so acres of land than
his father raised on $50 acres. the
parent not using fertilizer. He was
the first to build a. silo in his COM
munity.
In politics Mr.. Dunlap was always
Republican. His first public office
was president of his township school
board. He was later elected to the
State Senate. In 1910 he was elected
State dairy and food commissioner.
running on the State ticket, on which
the late President Harding ran for
Governor of Ohio.
Backed Pure Food Laws.
During his tenure as State dairy
and food commissioner Mr.. Dunlap
succeeded in sobtaining much legisla-
tion insuring the distribution of pure
food in Ohio. Upon retiring from
that office he returned to his farm
and was elected secretary of the State
board of agriculture, resigniug at the
end of eight months to take over a
90, ,000-acre ranch in Florida, which
gave him an opportunity to study
Southern agricultural methods
Returning from the South. he took
complete charge not only of his own
farm, but those of his father in the
same community. In order to i'm
prove his knowledge of dairying he
spent an entire Winter two years ago
studying dairying under the best ex-
perts in Wisconsin. He is a Free
Mason, knight Templar and a
Shriner.