22 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 



A PROPONENT OF LIVESTOCK SCIENCE 



5. Foremost among the men who have studied the needs of the 

 animal in birth, growth and preparation for market, is Henry 

 Jackson Waters. Dr. Waters has had a career far more varied 

 than becomes the lot of the average college professor and investi- 

 gator. By the force of his personality, by his driving ambition 

 to get at the elemental subjects the livestock man must meet, and 

 by his continually open and inquisitive mind, he has wrought 

 for himself a niche in agricultural progress that no other per- 

 sonality will fill. Dr. Waters was born at Center, Mo., Novem- 

 ber 23, 1865, and received his B. S. A. at the University of 

 Missouri in 1886. In 1904 and 1905 he studied in the animal 

 nutrition laboratories of the Universities of Leipsic and Zurich. 

 In 1913 the New Hampshire State College conferred on him the 

 degree of Doctor of Laws, and three years later the University 

 of Missouri honored him similarly. 



His public activities began upon college graduation. He was 

 Assistant Secretary of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture 

 from 1886 to 1888; assistant agriculturist of the Missouri Experi- 

 ment Station from 1886 to 1891; professor of agriculture and 

 agriculturist in the experiment station at the Pennsylvania Agri- 

 cultural College from 1892 to 1895. In 1895 he was returned 

 to the University of Missouri as professor of agriculture. Dean 

 of the College of Agriculture and director of the experiment 

 station, a position he retained until 1909. The sessions of the 

 Graduate School of Agriculture at the University of Ohio in 1902 

 and the University of Illinois in 1906, saw him as lecturer in 

 animal nutrition, while he was appointed director of the Missouri 

 State Agricultural Exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 

 tion in 1903-1904. During his last year in Missouri, he was 

 president of the State Board of Agriculture, and in 1909 was 

 called to the Kansas State Agricultural College as President. 

 While in this last position he was made commissioner from the 



