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STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



comprises the section on which the town of Chatham is located with the 

 exception of forty acres which forms a part of the town site. 



"As this property adjoins the present experimental farm of 100 acres 

 diagonally and as it consists of the choicest land in Upper Michigan, 

 the possibilities of developing a model farm are apparent nnder proper 

 management. It is not intended to develop an experimental farm only, 

 but to establish a model or demonstration farm operated on a com- 

 mercial basis as well." 



FARM HOUSE 



The State Board of Agriculture, realizing the establishment of tlie 

 live stock industry as the basis of a permanent agriculture and finding 

 the original IGO acre farm inadequate for developing the live stock 

 business on a sufficiently large scale, took the initiative in the negotia- 

 tions leading to the addition of GOO acres more. 



Mr. Leo M. Geismar was selected as Superintendent of the Station 

 in the spring of 1900, and continued in charge up to March, 1912, when 

 he was appointed to the position of Agricultural Extension Expert for 

 the Upper Peninsula. At this time Roswell G. Carr, B. S., a graduate 

 of M. A. C, was appointed and continued in charge until March, 1916, 

 when he became Agricultural Agent for Ontonagon county. Since this 

 time B. W. Householder, B. S., also a graduate of the college, has been 

 in charge. 



