THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



VOL. XVII. 



CHICAGO, SEPT., 1902. 



NO. 9 



THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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A monthly illustrated magazine recognized 

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 development and the industrial growth of the 

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A. C. True, Ph. D. 



Alfred Charles True, 

 Ph. D., whose portrait 

 we present to our readers this month, was 

 born at Middletown, Connecticut in 1853, 

 being a son of Rev. Charles Kittredge 



True, D. D. , for many years a professor 

 in Wesleyan University. 



He received a classical and scientific 

 education at Wesleyan and Harvard Uni- 

 versities and for a number of years fol- 

 lowed the profession of teaching, princip- 

 ally at the State Normal School at West- 

 field, Massachussets, and Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity. At the latter institution he was 

 associated with Prof. W. 0. Atwater, the 

 distinguished agricultural and physiolog- 

 ical chemist. 



When the office of experiment stations 

 was created in the Department of Agri- 

 culture in 1888, under the directorship of 

 Prof. Atwater, Dr. True was appointed 

 editor in that office. He was successively 

 promoted to be assistant director in 1891 

 and director in 1893. For some ten years 

 he was the chief editor of the Experiment 

 Station Record. Under his administra- 

 tion the functions of the office of experi- 

 ment stations have been greatly broadened 

 and it now ranks with the main bureaus 

 of the Department of Agriculture. This 

 office represents the department in its re- 

 lations with the agricultural colleges and 

 experiment stations, which are now in 

 operation in all the states and territories, 

 and directly manages the experiment sta- 

 tions in Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico. 

 It seeks to promote the interests of agri- 

 cultural education and investigation 

 throughout the United States. 



Dr. True has made a specialty of stud- 

 ies relating to the organization and devel- 

 opment of institutions for agricultural 



