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TOR Vilas (19) he conducted the first short course with an 

 attendance of nineteen students. In 1887 he was officially chris- 

 tened director of the Wisconsin Experiment Station, and three 

 years later he opened Wisconsin's first dairy course for two 

 students. In 1891 he was appointed Dean of the College of Agri- 

 culture, and during the same year made his first contribution to 

 the subject on which he later became America's foremost author- 

 ity, "The Feeding of Cattle." This brochure appeared as Part II 

 of Secretary Rusk's treatise on "Diseases of Cattle and Cattle 

 Feeding." In February, 1898, the first edition of his masterpiece, 

 "Feeds and Feeding," was published. It consisted of 670 pages 

 and has thus far passed through nine editions with a total of thirty 

 thousand copies. 



Dean Henry gathered under his leadership the greatest agri- 

 cultural faculty assembled by the early institutions. Practically 

 everyone of them became a national leader in his subject, Bab- 

 cocK (23) in dairy chemistry and physics, Russell in bacteriol- 

 ogy. King in soils, Craig (24) in animal husbandry, Waugh in 

 horticulture, Farrington in dairy manufactures, Hart and Mc- 

 CoLLOM in nutrition, Moore in agronomy, Jones in plant dis- 

 eases and Taylor in agricultural economics. His greatest pride 

 lay in this faculty and to it he attributed the success he enjoyed. 



In 1902 he was chosen special lecturer on agriculture and 

 animal nutrition at the Summer School of the University of Cali- 

 fornia. So appreciative were his Pacific coast students that this 

 University conferred on him the honorary Degree of Doctor of 

 Agriculture in 1904. In July of the same year the University of 

 Vermont honored him with the doctorate of science. The modern 

 farmer's course was established under his direction at the Wiscon- 

 sin College of Agriculture that winter with an initial attendance of 

 175. In May, 1907, the Michigan Agricultural College granted 

 him the degree of Doctor of Science and at the close of the fiscal 

 year he resigned his college position, being made emeritus profcs- 



