Key to Illustrations ELISHA BENJAMIN ANDREWS, Ph. D., D. D., LL. D. HON. WILLIAM GUNN WHITMORE Page _Frontispiece [Fronting Chapter I] Regent of the University of Nebraska, Chairman of Regents' Committee on Agricultural Education. Progressive and successful farmer. Public man. Zealous friend of agricultural as well as of general higher education. REGENT COUPLAND OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA REGENT COUPLAND'S RESIDENCE, Elgin, Nebraska SEAMAN ASAHEL KNAPP, D. Sc., LL. D.----- Original thinker in the field of agricultural progress. The Sir Horace Plunkett of America. Author of the Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration Movement work under the auspices of the General Education Board. I 13 13 26 SIR HORACE CURZON PLUNKETT, P. C., F. R. S. 31 Philanthropist, economist, publicist, who has wrought so wisely and efficiently to improve the condition of the agricultural classes in Ireland, his slogan being "Better Farming, Better Business, Better Living." CHARLES EDWIN BESSEY, Ph. D., LL. D.---- Head Dean and Head Professor of Botany, University of Nebraska. To whom more than to any other man is due the honor of bringing about the initiation of the policy of afforesting arid areas in the United States. 36 GIFFORD PINCHOT, Sc. D., LL. D.----. Late Head Forester, United States Department of Agriculture. Uncompromising and intelligent advocate of the conservation of the nation's natural resources. THOMAS LYTTLETON LYON, Ph. D. -- Professor of Soil Technology, Federal Experiment Station, Cornell University. Who introduced the Kherson Oat from Russia into the United States. DRY FARMING, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA---- NORMAN SMITH, Covington, Tenn. (Courtesy of Boys' Corn Club winner in 1910 and 1911. Late Chief Chemist, United States Department of Agriculture. Author of the United States Pure Food Law. HEREFORD BULL, GRAND BOY Owned by the University of Nebraska. The Hereford is, after all, the standard beef KATY GERBEN, HOLSTEIN Cow, owned by the Has an annual record of 19,161.2 pounds milk Page 48 61 71 71 81 91 91 WILLIAM OSLER, M. D., LL. D., F. R. S.------ 100 Eminent physician (British, formerly American). Author of a well-known treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine. Who teaches that as a rule men's power to do their choicest brain work ends by the age of forty. Champion 1911 International. J. Crouch and JAMES JEROME HILL Man and philosopher. Builder of the Great Whose foresight, discretion and push have done "THE PIONEER" (Kit Carson) _ _. 109 118 126 As seen on MacMonnies' famous monumental fountain at Capitol Square, Denver, Colorado. WILLIAM GRANGER HASTINGS, A. B.---- Dean of the College of Law, University of Nebraska. Learned jurist who addresses Bohemian Americans in the Bohemian tongue. HOWARD REMUS SMITH, B. Sc. Professor of Animal Husbandry, University of A leading American authority on the breeding HEREFORD BULL, STONEWALL JACKSON--. Weight, 2,200. About perfect in type and as an individual. The Herefords are, on the whole, the best cattle for the range. SHORTHORN BULL, RINGMASTER_. Champion 1911 International. White and Smith, 134 152 163 163 LAWRENCE BRUNER, B. Sc. Nebraska State Entomologist. Head Professor of Entomology in the State University. For whom was named the "Bruner Pinery," Holt County, Nebraska, the pioneer dry area afforestation tract. His accurate and exhaustive knowledge of birds and insects, the noxious and the useful, is of incalculable value to farmers, gardeners and fruit raisers. AGRICULTURAL HALL AND HOME ECONOMICS HALL University of Nebraska. Page 174 193 JAMES IRVING MANATT, Ph. D., LL. D.------- 212 Professor of Greek History and Literature, Brown University. Veteran teacher, finished scholar and man of letters, with sympathies defying all limit of age, race, or clime. STATE PRIZE WINNERS IN BOYS' CORN CLUB CONTEST, 1911 219 DEMONSTRATION IN BURR CLOVER, Arkansas, 1911 219 (Courtesy of General Education Board.) CARROLL GARDNER PEARSE Superintendent of the Milwaukee Public Schools. President of the National Education Association [1911-12]. 226 BOYS' CORN CLUB EXHIBIT, BLACKSTONE, VA. 238 TOMATO CLUB DEMONSTRATION, Bookhaven, Miss., July 30, 1911--- (Courtesy of General Education Board.) 238 |