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ment and inspiration, their standards and conception of values, and 

 an outlook which has in large measure furnished the basis of their 

 success. 



PROF. WILLIAM H. BREWER. 



Prof. William Henry Brewer, for 40 years professor of agricul- 

 ture at the Sheffield Scientific School and long associated with the 

 Connecticut Experiment Station, died November 2, 1910. 



Prof. Brewer was a pioneer in agricultural instruction, having 

 been connected with the early attempts to establish agricultural 

 teaching at the Oakwood Agricultural Institute and at Ovid College, 

 in New York State, in the early fifties. He became professor of 

 agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School in 1864, and occupied 

 the position until 1904, when he retired as professor emeritus. 



Dr. E. H. Jenkins, director of the Connecticut Experiment Sta- 

 tion, has said of him : 



His sympathy with farm interests was always active. Pie was a professor 

 of agriculture uot ouly iu the Sheffield Scientific School but throughout the 

 State. His addresses at farm meetings through many years, which were pub- 

 lished in the reports of the State board of agriculture, did much to make its 

 early reports sought after everywhere as an encyclopedia of farming. 



He labored with his associate and friend, Dr. S. W. Johnson, for 

 the establishment of an agricultural experiment station in Connecti- 

 cut, the first station to be organized in the United States. He was 

 a member of the board of control of the station from 1877 until his 

 death, and served for many years as secretary and treasurer. 



He was an ardent advocate of the care of the forests of the country, 

 and was a member of a commission appointed from the National 

 Academy of Sciences to prepare a plan for their preservation and in- 

 crease. 



A scholarly man, with an unusual breadth of information and 

 interest in scientific matters, he represented agriculture, his teaching 

 subject, in its true scientific relations as well as in its practical as- 

 pects. He thus exemplified the trained scientist in agricultural 

 teaching, a conception by no means universal in his day. The high 

 standing which he long maintained among men of science carried 

 with it a recognition of the subject which he taught, and helped to 

 a better understanding of its importance. 



He was 82 years of age at the time of his death, having been bom 

 September 14, 1828. 



NEW LINES OF WORK. 



At the Kansas college and station a department for the investi- 

 gation of problems dealing with the handling and milling of grain 

 was established. An experimental baking plant is to be operated 



