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to 1911 working in the Forest Service and teaching at the 
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. Here he was 
assistant in the horticultural department and later became pro- 
fessor of botany and forestry. In September, 1911, he was 
appointed professor of forestry at the State College of Wash- 
ington, Pullman, Wash., which position he now holds. 
He writes: “The chief business event of my life since leay- 
ing Yale was the purchase of a thousand-acre farm in Kansas 
in 1905. With but $80 cash in my pocket I obligated myself 
to pay $13,000 in seven years’ time at six and a half per cent. 
interest. I always have had the greatest possible faith in agri- 
cultural land as a safe investment, particularly in a country with 
such agricultural resources as Kansas. Before my mortgage 
fell due, I was able to pay it off in full, by selling land at an 
advance in price and by saving from my salary. To-day I own 
1,053 acres of Kansas land free from debt, worth at the lowest 
market price $35,000. I would not part with the land for 
$50,000. Faith in Kansas and ‘nerve’ have enabled me to be 
the owner of one of the finest stock farms in the United States, 
where I propose to spend my declining years practicing ‘farm 
forestry,’ plant breeding and stock raising. I hope to teach 
a few years longer, then retire to my farm to practice what I 
have taught.” 
Clothier is a member of the Presbyterian church. Of his 
political ideas he writes: “Was a Republican till high tariff 
and legislation promoting trusts drove me first to the Democratic 
party, then to the People’s party, then again to the Democratic 
party under Bryan, and now to the Progressive party under 
Roosevelt.” He was elected to the office of superintendent 
of public instruction in Wabaun, Kans., by the Populists and 
Democrats in 1892. He is a member of the American Breeders’ 
Association, the American Forestry Association, the National 
Geographic Society and of the Gesang and Turn Verein. 
He has written many articles for the Kansas Industrialist, Kansas 
Farmer, Bulletins of the Kansas Experiment Station, Bulletins and Circu- 
lars of the Forest Service, Proceedings of the Society of American 
Foresters, American Forestry Magazine, Bulletins of the Mississippi 
Experiment Station, American Breeders’ Magazine, ete. 


