EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. XXV. August, 1911. No. 2. 



One by one those who took part in the beginnings of agricultural 

 experimentation in this country pass away. Sturtevant, Johnson, 

 Goessmann, Cook, Atwater — these belong to the first generation of 

 workers in agriculture. The men of their time have largely given 

 place to a second generation, now in the full vigor of middle life, who 

 with the gi-eater opportunity which the times afford, in experience, 

 funds, and jwpular appreciation, are throwing their whole lives into 

 the advancement of agriculture as an industry and as a condition 

 under which men live. 



Dr. E. B. Voorhees, of New Jersey, was a type of this present 

 generation of leaders. In a sense he was a link between the old and 

 the new regime, for he was trained under the pioneers, and his most 

 notable work was done since the experiment station movement be- 

 came a national one. He represented in a characteristic w^ay the 

 vigor and aggressiveness of the new generation in organizing and 

 propagating experiment station work, and in making its results felt 

 by the farmers. He shared generously in the confidence and appre- 

 ciation which have come of such efi'ort, and in the demand for leader- 

 ship which this agricultural awakening has brought. He was a prod- 

 uct of his times, the embodiment of a new idea. 



Ilis life was not a long one, as the w'orld measures time, but it was 

 crow'ded full. In its fifty-five years there was more of life and ac- 

 complishment than in the three score and ten of many another man. 



Edward Burnett Voorhees was born at Minebrook, Somerset 

 County, New" Jersey, on June 22, 1856. He died June 6, 1911. 



He w^as graduated from Eutgers College in 1881 with the degree of 

 bachelor of arts, and in 1900 he received the honorar}^ degree of doc- 

 tor of science from the Un.iversitj^ of Vermont. The year following 

 his graduation he served as assistant to the professor of chemistiy at 

 Wesleyan Universit}^, Prof. W. O. Atwater; and in 1882 he returned 

 to New Jersey as assistant chemist in the experiment station. This 

 station, the third or fourth in seniority of American stations, had 

 been established two 3'ears previously, and was under the directorship 

 of Dr. George H. Cook. Doctor Voorhees continued as assistant 

 chemist until 1888, when he was made chemist. Following the death 



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