Ratpu Honianp, Laborer, was born in Joe Daviess Co., Ill., Sept. 9, 1837; re- 
moved to Red Oak, Iowa, in 1868, and to Essex, Lowa, in 1875, where he has since 
resided; was appointed April 25, 1900. 
Wittiam R. Parks, Laborer, was born at Warsaw, Ind., April 22, 1866; is a 
graduate of Valparaiso (Ind.) normal college; made a trip to England in 1890 
with a shipment of fine stock, and has also visited Hawaii and Japan; enlisted 
May 12, 1898, as private in Co. E, 51st Iowa Vol. Inf., and served in the Philippine 
Islands nine months during the Spanish War; was sent home on hospital ship 
and discharged for disability aug. 31, 1899; was appointed from Shenandoah, 
Iowa, April 25, 1900. 
EUGENE STiLes, Laborer, was born in Fremont Co., Towa, March 18, 1866, and 
was appointed from Sidney, lowa, April 25, 1900. 
A. A. Timson, Laborer, was born in Vermont, Dec. 30, 1846; came to Iowa in 
1856 and has since resided in that State; served in the Civil War in Co. C, 44th 
Iowa Inf., as wagoner; was married in 1871; is a farmer by cccupation, and 
owns a farm near Tabor, lowa; was appointed April 25, 1900. 
ABRAIILAM WILSON, Laborer, was born in Fountain Co., Ind., Aug. 16, 1842; re- 
moved with parents in 1852 to Page Co., lowa, where he has resided ever since; 
enlisted in 1862 in Co. A, Ist lowa Cav., Army of the West, and served until 1866, 
taking part in thirty-four engagements; engaged in farming and stock raising 
until 1889, and has since lived a retired life at Coin, Iowa; was appointed April 
25, 1900. 
Louts Srewart, Laborer, was born in Warren Co., Ill., Sept. 9, 1857, and was 
appointed from Malvern, lowa, June 1, 1900. 
ANIMAL NUTRITION EXPERIMENTS AT STATE COLLEGE, PA. 
CONDUCTED IN COOPERATION WITH THE PENNSYLVANIA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT 
STATION, 
HeNry Prentiss Armsby, Director of Experiment Station and Dean of the 
School of Agriculture of the Pennsylvania State College, in charge of the above 
named experiments, was born at Northbridge, Mass., in 1853; received degree of 
B. S. at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1871; was assistant in chemistry at 
same institution, 1871-72; graduate student, Sheffield Scientific School, 1872-74; 
teacher of natural sciences, Fitchburg (Mass.) high school, 1874-75; student, Uni- 
versity of Leipzig, Germany, 1875-76; assistant in chemistry, Rutgers College, 
1876-77; Chemist Connecticut agricultural experiment station, 1877-81; received 
degree of Ph. D. from Yale University, 1879; was professor of agricultural chem- 
istry, University of Wisconsin, 1883-87, after which accepted present position at 
Pennsylvania State College; was chairman of committees on cooperative station 
exhibit at World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893, and Paris Exposition, 1900; mem- 
ber of committee on dairy tests, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893, president 
of Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, 
1898-99: received appointment in the Bureau July 1, 1898, to conduct experi- 
ments in animal nutrition. In connection with these experiments there has 
been constructed under Prof. Armsby’s supervision a newly devised respiration 
calorimeter, in which a large animal may be kept for days and feeding experi- 
ments made so that everything taken in and given off by the animal is accurately 
measured and determined. 
I. Trornron Usmonp, Assistant, was born near Philadelphia, Pa.; holds de- 
grees of B. A. and M. A. from Mt. Union College, and M.S. from Cornell Univer- 
sity, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science: is professor of physics in Pennsylvania State College, which position 
he has held since 1879; was appointed by the Bureau Oct. 1, 1898, to assist in 
above experiments. 
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