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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, Bas- 
cock (23) in dairy chemistry and physics, RUSSELL in bacteriol- 
ogy, Kinc in soils, Cratc (24) in animal husbandry, WaucH 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 profes- 
