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tion of $50,000 per annum for maintenance, in which the college of 

 agriculture is to share. 



Dr. Scovell's activity was by no means confined to the duties of his 

 own institution. He was an unusually public-spirited man, giving 

 freely of his interest and his time to various local enterprises, and 

 displaying a high order of ability in securing results. He was a lead- 

 ing spirit in the community, and on© on whom much dependence was 

 placed. In a national way he was prominently identified with the 

 leading movements for agricultural advancement. From the time 

 he came into the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations in 188D until the close of his life there was 

 hardly a year when he did not serve the association in some capacity, 

 either as an active officer or a member of one or more of its commit- 

 tees. He was a member of the executive committee from 1889 to 

 1895, and was secretary and treasurer from 1890 to 1894. He was 

 president of the association in 1909, but was prevented by illness from 

 presiding at the convention of that year. 



His most conspicuous service was as chairman of a committee nom- 

 inated by the association to supervise tiie tests of dairy cows at the 

 World's Columbian Exposition, in 1893. This w^as one of the most 

 remarkable breed tests ever conducted, being upon a scale and with a 

 thoroughness never before approached. The management of the 

 t€sts was practically in the hands of the committee, which developed 

 methods and system, made a detailed record of the feed and of the 

 performance of the individual cows, and computed the results. The 

 records contained nearly three million separate entries of fact, and 

 were deemed a very important contribution to the literature of dairy- 

 ing, but owing to the expense of their publication they were never 

 printed in detail. 



Much of the responsibility for the conduct of these tests with such 

 thoroughness, fidelity, and skill naturally devolved upon the chair- 

 man of the committee, who was also called upon to handle many deli- 

 cate matters in relations with the competing breeders and authorities. 

 He gave to it much of his time and strength during a large part of 

 the year, and the occasion was the beginning of the association of his 

 name with dairy cattle in a national way. The success of the elabo- 

 rate precautions adopted to secure absolute fairness and accuracy is 

 attested by the fact that from no reputable source has the least doubt 

 been cast upon the accuracy of the results. 



Dr. Scovell's position as an expert in dairy cattle led him to be 

 sought as manager of the Jersey herd at the St. Louis World's Fair 

 test, and also to be otfered the position of secretary of the American 

 Jersey Cattle Club, both of which he declined. He was recently 

 elected a director of the latter club. Less than two years ago he 



