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industrial fellowships. 



A new method of cooperation with companies or individuals is being 

 tested, which it is beheved may prove of considerable service to the State 

 and to the College and to the companies concerned. This plan is to facili- 

 tate the investigation of agricultural problems which commercial firms 

 are interested in having solved, by accepting from them the endowment 

 of Industrial Fellowships in the College with sufficient funds to enable 

 the employment of a specially prepared graduate student to undertake a 

 thorough investigation of the problem as a principal part of his work for 

 a higher University degree. 



Many bright young men are anxious to work for higher degrees. These 

 Industrial Fellowships will give young men an opportunity to earn their 

 support while working for their degrees. The fact that they are being 

 paid to solve a certain problem will stimulate their work on this problem. 

 The company endowing the fellowship is benefited by having a man of 

 superior talent employed to solve a problem which is of special importance 

 to it, and knows that the work is being conducted under the direct 

 supervision of the experts of the College of Agriculture. Problems may 

 be suggested for such Industrial Fellowships which are entirely unsatis- 

 factory. To be satisfactory, a problem must be of such a nature that 

 the University authorities are willing to accept it as a suitable subject 

 for a major doctorate thesis. 



The following Industrial Fellowships in the College of Agriculture 

 have been accepted by the University and are now in operation : 



Niagara Sprayer Company Fellowship, established by The Niagara 

 Sprayer Co., Middleport, N. Y., July 31, 1909. For the investigation of 

 the fungicidal value of lime-sulfur mixtures as applied to the control 

 of diseases in plants. $1500 a year for two years. Held by Mr. Errett 

 Wallace. 



The C. W. Stuart & Company Fellowship, established by C. \V. Stuart 

 & Co., Nurserymen of Newark, N. Y., November 4, 1909. For the investi- 

 gation of the diseases of nursery stock, with special reference to fire 

 blight and its control. $750 a year for two years. Held by Mr. V. B. 

 Stewart. 



The Herman Frasch Fellowship, established by the Union Sulphur 

 Company, New York City, April 20, 1910. For the investigation of the 

 value of dry sulfur as a fungicide used on the plants or in the soil in 

 the control of plant diseases. $3000 a year for four years. Held by 

 C. N. Jensen and F. M. Blodgett. 



The John Davey Fellowship, established by The Davey Tree 

 Expert Company, of Kent, Ohio, April i, 1910. For the investigation 



