No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 369 



In considering the reorganization of our agricultural department 

 at the College, and in accepting in good faith the appropriations 

 that have been made for the new agricultural buildings, including 

 the dairy buildings, which are recognized now among the finest in 

 the United States, and in accepting the responsibility thus placed 

 upon us by the State, it was deemed wise that the Department of 

 Agiculture should have enlarged facilities, and it occurred to some of 

 us that to separate from the technical work of the Experiment Sta- 

 tion, which is a part of our work at the College, the distinguished 

 gentleman to whom I refer in the line of animal nutrition, would be 

 a desirable change. To relieve him from the direction and detail of 

 the executive work and to set him aside in order that he may use 

 his recognized skill and qualifications for better and deeper research 

 along the special line in which he has so much distinguished himself, 

 of animal nutrition, therefore, the trustees of the College have set 

 aside Dr. Armsby to this work, and in a sense have consecrated and 

 dedicated him to it. He has arrived at the maturity of life; he is 

 developed and equipped for this work as no other man in the State 

 or the United States is. Those who know him and his great work 

 fully realize this. We have, therefore, made a separate department 

 of this branch apart from the work of the Experiment Station, nam- 

 ing it "The Institute of Animal Nutrition," and have called Dr. Arms- 

 by "The Director of Nutrition," and set him aside for that work, re- 

 lieving him of this drudgery of the Experiment Station and propose 

 to put that upon the shoulders of a younger and newer man who will 

 have the opportunity to grow into the just reputation that Dr. Arms- 

 by now enjoys. 



Now, then, I have the pleasure of presenting to you our old and 

 distinguished friend, Dr. H. P. Armsby, as the Director of the In- 

 stitute of Animal Nutrition, and the greatest authority in the United 

 States to-day in that field. 



DR. AKMSBY: Mr. Chairman and Friends: If Colonel Wood- 

 ward's introduction of Prof. Van Norman was embarrassing, I am 

 very sure that he has very much improved upon it in that respect in 

 his introduction of me, yet I confess that I rather welcome this op- 

 portunity, this public announcement of the change for several rea- 

 sons, and among others, because it relieves me, in a degree, from 

 some embarrassment arising from my knowledge of this proposed 

 change. I necessarily stood for the past few months in what was, in 

 a way, a false position, as officially and ostensibly representing the 

 administration of the Experiment Station, and, by implication at 

 least, the general agricultural work of the College, while at the same 

 time I knew myself that that work was to be taken up very shortly 

 by some one else, and for that reason I am very glad that the time 

 has come when the situation could be cleared up, and the exact 

 relation of things made public. 



Now let me say most emphatically that this change does not in 

 the slightest degree lessen my interest in the general agricultural 

 progress of Pennsylvania, and I hope that whenever there is a 

 possibility of my serving the interest of this Board of Agriculture, 

 or the interest of agriculture in this State, that I may be called upon, 

 and I assure you that you shall have the best effort of which I am 

 capable. I should be exceedingly sorry if this change should lessen 



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