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A Pictorial History ofAgricultural Economics
AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYBy Elton B. Hill, Professor" Emeritus
ow1906 -1972
A Pictorial History ofAgricultural Economics atMichigan State University
By Elton B. Hill, Professor Emeritus
MICIDGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ~ EAST LANSING
PART "IV OF A SERIES OF FOUR NONOGRAPHSPART III History of Teaching, Ag Econ ~1isc. Series No. 1970-15, Oct. 1970PART II Biographical Sketches, Ag Econ Misc. Series No. 1968-9, July, !968PART I Historical Highlights, Ag Econ Misc. Series No. 1968-8, July, 1968
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CONTENTS
Introduction.
Organization.
Teaching ..
Research ..Extension .
Farmers' Weeks
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Special Services, Honors and Awards ..
International Program Involvements, 1933-65Conferences and Other Meetings •.
Staff and Retirees, Fall 1971 .
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THEN AND NOW--- ----..- ~---1906 - 1972
A Pictorial History of Events andActivities of Farm Management and
Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University(Part IV of a Series of Four-Monographs)~/
By Elton B. Hill~/Professor Emeritus Agricultural Economics Department
INTRODUCTION
The main purpose of this report is to present pictures of some of the
scenes, personalities and events which shaped and mirrored the history of farm
management and agricultural economics at Michigan Stat~/·
In order to present some background to Then and Now in this story of
the development of farm management and agricultural economics at Michigan
State we start with a few pictures of the "sleepy" town of East Lansing in the
early Twenties, with a total population of about 3,300, with about 1,900 per-
manent residents and about 1,400 students.
1/ See back of cover page for listing of these four monographs.
2/ I wish to express my appreciation for the generous assistance of manystaff-members of the Department of Agricultural Economics in the production ofthis report. Many of the pictures here shown are from my own files while manyothers are from the files of the Department of Information Services, MichiganState. The remaining pictures came from various persons in the Department orfrom unknown sources.
I wish also to give special thanks to Donald E. Gregg, Michigan StateUniversity Extension Publication Editor, for his suggestions and aid in set-ting up the general format of this report; and to Dr. Orion Ulrey who preparedthe material for the section entitled "International Program Involvements,1933-65".
3/ Michigan State University has been well known by three names:a) Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) from 1855 to May 13, 1925.b) Michigan State College (MSC) from May 13, 1925 to July 1, 1955.c) Michigan State University (MSU) from July 1, 1955 to the present time.
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The scenery on the way to the offi~e in Ag Hall was quite different
in the early 1920s. East Lansing was then a rather quiet city with only
one church, the Peoples Church, and no beer, etc. At that time few per-sons if any dreamed that East Lansing in 50 years would become a city
of over 50,000 persons. In 1970, the population of East Lansing had
grown to about 51,000 with 18,000 permanent residents and 33,000 students.
The street scene on Grand River Avenue in the 20s is shown in pic-
tures on pages 3 and 4. The picture on page 3 looking east shows the area
between Abbott Road and MAC Avenue. The white diamond-shaped sign
in the distance is at the end of the 200 block and was a warning sign
for automobiles where the interurban tracks on the right turned left to
cross the road and go north on MAC Avenue.
The double row of elms, shown on page 4, bordering Grand River
Avenue on the south provided an enjoyable foot-path for pedestrians.
The elms were set out in the late 1870s by Professor William J. Beal,
head of the Department of Botany and Forestry, who 'Was an early advo-
cate of planting trees. The orchard in the far right provided many
college students with the fruit of the season harvested mostly at
night.
The view on the lower half of page 4 shows well how Farm Lane got
its name. It really was a farm lane in the lOs and 20s. It was sheep
and cattle then and autos and students now. Farm Lane terminated atMt. Hope Avenue which marked the southern boundary of the college farm.
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On the Avenue, looking east(Early 1920s)
Early 1920s- East Lansing in the 1920s. The surroundings
enroute to the office on the campus were a bit different in the
early 1920s than in 1972. The street scene is of the 100 block
of East Grand River between Abbott and M.A.C.
Note the two-way traffic and the telephone and power line
poles. Parking (no parking meters) was permitted on the north
side of the street. The interurban street car tracks on the
right bordered the double row of elms, planted in 1878-1879
by Dr. William J. Beal, Professor of Botany and Forestry at MAC.
The elms have gradually disappeared in the last decade due lar-
gely to Dutch elm disease. MAC campus is on the immediate right.
The Avenue foot-path betweenthe elms looking east
(early 1920s)
In the 1920s- Approachingthe campus from the south viaFarm Lane in the 1920s was a bitdifferent in the 1970s. Thisrustic scene at the Farm Lanebridge shows the farm buildingsand the MAC smoke stack in theleft rear. In those days, onecould swim with safety andpleasure in the Red Cedar River.
Early 1920s- The footpath and road on theAvenue in the early 1920s. The double row ofelms set out in 1878-79 and running on Michi-gan Ave. from Harrison Road east to West GrandRiver Ave. and thence east to Bogue Street wasfor many years one of the natural beauties ofEast Lansing and the campus.
Dutch elm disease and the concrete road-way have combined to eliminate most of thisbeauty section of the city. This view isabout opposite the First National Bank on EastGrartdRiver and shows the early horticulturalorchard in the right background.
Farm Lane bridge, looking north(in the 1910s and '20s)
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NOW-The scene has changed in 1971.The one-way road north from Ag.Hall now goes between theformer Administration Buildingand Journalism (formerly Botany)and Chittenden Hall. FormerBotany Building is in back-ground.
College buses and cars now usethis heavily traveled route.In addition, a road now branchesoff to the east between MorrillHall and Giltner Hall. Photoby Brown.
On the way to Agricultural Hallin 1922. Picture taken infront of Morrill Hall. BotanyBuilding .and Forestry Building,now Chittenden Hall, in back-ground. Note the Canna bed inbackground which was a standardcharacteristic of the campusscene in the 1915-25 era.
The gravel road was a two-wayroute as compared to the curband blacktop one-way route asof 1971. The road locationcurved around in front insteadof. the back of the formerAdministration Building (for-merly the Library-Museum).Photo by Laycock.
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THEN--1922February 1922 view ofAgricultural Hall. Vet-erinary buildings inforeground; Farm Mech-anics Building (wood andmetal working shop) onthe right.Ag. Hall built in 1909,was one of the two mo-dern structures on thecampus; the other wasthe Engineering Buildin&1907. Many present dayoccupants of Ag. Hallinquire if the elevatorwas installed in thebuilding at time of con-
There were some "modern" conveniences availablestruction. The answer is yes.even 50 years ago.For years, this building contained many classrooms and also housed the College ofAgriculture administrative and department offices, pamely: Andrna L Husbandry,. Dairy,Poultry, Farm Mechanics, Farm Crops, Farm Management, Soils, Short Course, Agricul-tural Chemistry, the Bulletin Room and the Publicity Department (now called Infor-mation Services). Farmers' Week general meetings and student dances were held inthe one big room, southeast corner of the 4th floor. In addition, there was alarge one-story judging and livestock sales pavillion in the east wing which in the1909-20 period was also used for the annual May music festivals. Some of thefinest concert artists of the period were on the programs.
liQli--.ill.Q...The sce;nehas changed. Agricultural Hall 48 years later, October 1970. Thisbuilding housed farm managementfrom the beginning, and agricul-tural economics since the mergerof the two areas of work in 1949.Ag. Hall still has a few class-rooms and houses the administra-tive offices of the College ofAgriculture, but the only de-partments so housed are: Agri-cultural Economics, Institute ofAgricultural Technology (former-ly Short Course ,Department), In-
.stitute for Extension PersonnelDevelopment, Institute for In-ternational Development, FarmCrops and portions of SoilScience of the Crop and SoilScience Department and theInformation Services Depart-ment.
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AGRICULTURE IN THE 20s and 30sFarm management and agricultural economic problems in the 1920s in Michi-
gan were much different in farm organization, management, marketing, finance, andtransfers than in the 1970s. In 1920 there were about 196,000 farms in Michiganwith an average of 97 acres per farm. In 1970 there were about 85,000 farms withan average size of 153 acres. In 1920 there were 827 farms over 500 acres insize and in 1970 there were 2,352. Farming generally has tended to become highly
specialized, larger inscope, and requiringgreater capital invest-ments. Teaching, re-
," search, and extension inagricultural economicshas endeavored to keepup with the changingtimes.
The farm picturesshown in this section ofthe report have been se-lected to show some farmoperations as they werein the '20s and the '30sin order that some com-parisons may be made inthe present practices.
In the 19l0s and 20s - Five-horse hitch and a ridingtwo-bottom pl~we;;-really "deluxe" in comfort andefficiency in the 19l0s and 20s. Probably could plowfrom two and one-half to three acres a day dependingon soil type, soil conditions, and the number of hoursin operation.
In the 19l0s - Harvesting hay in the 19l0s and 1920swith a labor saving device, the hayloader. The pro-cedure saved labor as compared to hand pitching butstill sometimes required three men in the process.
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193T ...·This rural scene illus-trates the usual method ofseeding grains in the '30s.The picture was taken on theC.W. Arnold & son farm nearPerry, Mich. The Arnolds werecooperators for many years inthe Farm Management Department'sextension project in farm ac-counting and farm businessanalysis. This project, in1964 evolved into the present-day Tel-Farm extension projectof a similar nature.
1939-Father and son, Williama;a-Lawrence Seeger, harvestingwheat by the method common inMichigan in the '30s and before.The Seegers were cooperatorswith the Farm Management De-partment extension project infarm accounting and farm busi-ness analysis. Mr. Seeger wasa firm believer in helpingyoung men to get started infarming and increased the sizeof his farm to make room for afather-son partnership arrange-ment.
1943-Potato production in theearly '40s. E.G. Parmeter andson Ed harvesting certified-seed potatoes on their farm inCourtland Township, Kent County.The Parmeters were farm accountcooperators with the Farm Man-agement Department for manyyears. Potato production andharvesting methods have changedgreatly in the past 30 years.
In the 1910s and '20s -Threshing in the field. Thiswas a neighborhood event withneighbors furnishing men,teams and wagons&
Threshing from the field wasa short cut in the harvestprocess. Formerly most allgrain was hauled to the barnor nearby stacks prior tothreshing. This eliminatedthe weather hazard encounter-ed in threshing direct fromthe field. The stacker hadthe most unenviable job ofall, especially if it waswindy. If he did a good joband built a good stack, hisskill recommended him for thesame job at the next neighbor.While it was hard work, theneighborhood threshing ringprovided a chance for neigh-borly visits and to eat atthe neighbors. Farmers'wives outdid themselves toprovide super meals forthreshers. The threshingcrew stayed at the home ofthe farmer while they werethreshing at his farm.
The 1910s and '20s - Arath~usual power combin-ation, a four-horse hitch ona binder with a boy to drive.Many binders were equippedwith a bundle-carrier butthis one dropped the bun-dles one at a time. Bun-dles were later "shocked"in long or round shocks todry out preparatory to haul-ing to the barn or to thethreshing machine.
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In the 19l0s and 20s-Sugar Beet productionrequi;;d-;-lot of Iabo~d hard work in the19l0s and 20s. Hand labor was usually suppliedby Middle-European emigrants who did all theblocking, hand hoeing, topping and piling asshown in these two pictures.
At harvest time, the beets were liftedby a beet lifter drawn by horses or tractor.Beet workers then completed the job ofremoving the beets from the ground and lay-ing them in a row. Next operation was totop the beets with a heavy knife and throwthe beets in piles as shown in the picture.Next operation was to cover the piles withleaves to protect the beets until haulingtime.
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~ 1910s ~~Harvesting corn in the 1910s and 20s was hard work andrequired lots of labor. Corn was first cut either with a hand corn-cutter or aone-horse sled operated by-two men, one for each row. When your arm was full ofcorn the horse was stopped, and you got off to place your armful of stalks in ashock. When the shock was of the proper size it was tied near the top, one manusing a rope and pulling to pull the stalks together while his helper tied upthe stock with a special twine, usually binder twine. Lots of labor was requiredto farm a 160 or 240 acre farm in those days. Top picture.
In the wagon picture the corn had been cut and tied into bundles by a cornbinder. Later the corn was loaded on a wagon and in this instance taken to thesilage cutter for putting in the silo.
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Thomas K. Cowden, Head of Department. • •Lawrence L. Boger, Head of Department •Dale E. Hathaway, Head of Department ••
• May 1949-June 1954• July 1954-June 1969
July 1969-
9RGANIZATIONAL PERSONNEL
ECONOMICS
Wilbur O. Hedrick, Head of Department • 1917-30Harold Patton, Head of Department • • • •• 1930-43Herman J. Wyngarden, Head of Department •••• 1943-49
FARM MANAGEMENT
Howard M. Eliot, Head of Department • •Elton B. Hill, Head of Department • •
. . . • Jan. 1921-May 1923• July 1928-May 1949
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
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Wilbur o. Hedrick
Herman J. Wyngarden
Economics, Heads £f Department
19l7-30-Wilbur O. Hedrick, Chairman, Departmentof Economics 1906-30. Professor Hedrick received hisPh.D. in 1909 at the Univers~ty of Michigan. At Mich-igan State he was first instructor in English 1891-93,then assistant professor in history and politicalscience 1893-1906, then head of history and economicsdepartment 1906-1916.
When department of economics was set up in 1917,he became the first head of the department and heldthat position until 1930. Professor Hedrick taughtthe first course in agricultural economics--Econ. 2,"Agricultural Economics", 2 credits, to college degreestudents at MAC in 1911.
1930-l943-Dr. Harold S.Patton was Chairman of theDepartment of Economics 1930-43. He was born in Canadaand received his education inCanada and at Harvard.
His major interest wasin international trade inagricultural products. Hetaught the first course atMichigan State in GovernmentPolicies in Agriculture, 3credits, in 1930.
Harold S. Patton
1943-49-Herman J. Wyan-garden was named head of the Department of Economics in1943 and continued in that position until July 1, 1949when he was appointed dean of Michigan State Univer-sity's College of Business and Public Service. DeanWyngarden came to Michigan State University as associ-ate professor of economics in 1924. He had previouslytaught economics at the University of Michigan from1921-24.
He is the author of several publications in thefield of money, banking and business cycles. He wasappointed by President Roosevelt to serve on the Detroitarea War Labor Board in 1943-46 and the War Stabiliza-·tion Board during 1946-47. He is a member of manynational organizations. He was born in Wisconsin andreceived his education at the Universities of Washing-ton and Michigan.
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Development and Organization of the Departments of
Farm Management and Agricultural Economics
Economics and Agricultural Economics - Dr. Wilbur O. Hedrick was the founder
of the Economics Department and the macro aspects of agricultural economics at
Michigan State. Dr. Hedrick was an excellent student, a superb teacher, and a
very fine gentleman.
To start at the beginning, the story is as follows: Dr. Hedrick came to
Michigan State as an instructor in English in 1891; in 1893 he became assistant
professor in History and Political Science; in 1906 he became head of the newly
created Department of History and Economics; and in 1917 he became head of the
newly created Department of EGonomics.In 1911 Dr. Hedrick started teaching the first course in agricultural eco-
nomics at Michigan State, Econ 2 "Agricultural Economics", 2 credits to college
degree students. In 1916, he initiated Econ 12, Marketing of Farm Products. In
1918, he initiated the first course in farmer cooperatives, Econ 3a, three credits
and probably the second such course taught in the United States.
From those dates starting in 1911, the macro aspects of agricultural eco-
nomics were located in the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and
Sciences; teaching by Dr. Hedrick started in 1911; research by Dr. Horner started
in 1921; and extension started by R. V. Gunn in 1927.
In 1930 after serving in the position for 13 years, Dr. Hedrick resigned the
'chairmanship of the Department of Economics but continued to teach in the depart-
ment for another eight years, retiring at the age of 70 in 1938.
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~-Economics Department ~f ,Members~ Secretaries
(Picture taken in front of Economics Department office building,a former faculty residence on Faculty Row - near southeast cor-ner of MSU Union Memorial Building)
Front ~, left t~ right:· Herman J. Wyngarden, Mrs. Arthur (Olive)Howland, Wilbur O. Hedrick, Harold S. Patton (Chairman of theDepartment), Charles S. Dunford, Reuben V. Gunn*, E. Artlie Gee.Second~: William Haber, Montie Thrun, Helen Moroney, CarolineCooley, Olive Mumford, Gifford Patch*, George N. Motts**.Third~: Jack Davis, Fred M. Thrun**, Cecil R. Upham, JohnDownes, Orion Ulrey**, Arthur J. Howland*, Clem Logsdon, Claude L.Nash* .
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Agricultural economics extensionAgricultural economics teaching and research
Dr. Harold S. Patton was appointed head of the Economics Department in 1930
and served for a period of thirteen years until his death in an accident in
Washington, D.C. in 1943.
Dr; Herman J. Wyngarden was appointed as head of the Economics Department in
1943 and continued in that capacity for a period of six years until he was
appointed as Dean of the College of Business and Public Service in 1949.
Farm Management - The work in farm management at Michigan State has always
been in the College of Agriculture, first in the office of the Dean and Di-
-rector of Agriculture and later in the Depar-tment; of Farm Management.
Teaching in farm management was initiated in 1906 by Professor Clinton'
D. Smith, Director of the Michigan State University Experiment Station. Field
studies, labor income surveys, in farm management were initiated in 1912 by
Charles Reed, State Supervisor of Farm Management Field Studies. Research in the
area was initiated in 1913 by F.T. Riddell in a study of the cost of milk produc-
tion. Extension activities were initiated in 1917 by Charles H. Graves, farm
management extension specialist.
The first Department of Farm Management wfis set up on January 1, 1921, and
headed by Howard M. Eliot who had been extension specialist in farm management
at Michigan State since June 1, 1920. After serving as head of the department for
twenty-eight months, Professor Eliot and all but one of his 10-man staff were
fired in May 1923 by the then President of Michigan State University, David
Friday, a prominent economist. In addition, the Department of Farm Management
was abolished at the same time.
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Picturenot
Available
Howard M. Eliot1921-23
Elton B. Hill1928-49
~ Management, ~eads of Department
1921-l923-Howard M. Eliot was the head of the firstDepartment of Farm-Management at Michig'an State,1921-1923. He was relieved of this assignment in May1923 and the Farm Management Department as such wasdiscontinued until 1928 when it was re-establishedwith Elton B. Hill as head.
Professor Eliot received his education at theUniversities of Texas and Wisconsin. During hisadministration he set up five farm cost accountroutes, dairy, potatoes, general farming, feedercattle farms and fruit farms. Each route had about26 farmers. Farmers were visited by the "route man"once a month.
1928-49 ...EltonB. Hill 'came to the Michigan StateUniversity staff in 1920 as Assistant to the Deanand Director of Agriculture. For the 2l-year period,1928-49, he was Chairman of the Farm Management De-partment.
Professor Hill is a native of Michigan and re-ceived his B.S. 1915 and M.Agr. 1923 from MichiganState and his M.S. from Cornell University 1928. Hedid much pioneering work in father-son farm partner-ships, methods of keeping the farm in the family and~n intra-family farm transfer arrangements. He wasVice-President of the American Farm Economic Asso-ciation 1942-43.
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In the interim period between farm management departments, re~
search and extension activities were discontinued. However, teaching
in one or more courses was continued by Professor Riddell and Dean
Robert S. Shaw.The second Department of Farm Management was established on
July 1, 1928, with Professor Elton B. Hill as head and continued until
May 1, 1949. Previous to July 1, 1928, Professor Hill had been Assistant
to the Dean and Director of the College of Agriculture at Michigan State
since September 1, 1920. With the re-establishment of the·Department
in 1928, research and extension in farm management were again under way.
Teaching in the area had not been discontinued.
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1931-The Farm Management Department staffat Michigan State in the early years
(Picture taken in front of Agricultural Hall)
Names, years of joining to staff, ana positions were as follows, from
left to right: Herbert A. Berg, 1928, Extension specialist; Elton B.
Hill, 1928, Head of Department; Paul A. Minneman, 1930, corn-borer
research at Michigan State in cooperation with the United States De-
partment of Agriculture; Authur M. Hauke, 1931, Extension specialist;
Karl T. Wright, 1929, research; and Phillip F. Aylesworth, 1931,
research.
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1940....~ Management Staff Members ~nd Secretat:'i,esFirst row, left to rignt= Naomi Milne, Irene Foster, Joyce Mitchell,Marion Tihart-,-Ca;ol'Krietner, Virginia Sees, Muriel SeTgent, Luc:LleDunnebacke and June Cheverton.
Second row: Harold Taylor, Gerald E. Memmer, Max Terry, Lauren H."Hi" Br;W;;-,Karl T. Wright, Paul R. Pennock, and Thomas N. Devlin.
Top~: Clyde o. May, John C. Doneth, Elton B. Hill, Herbert A.Berg and Ross V. Baumann
(Picture taken on the steps at south entrance to Agriculture Hall)
Agricultural Economics Department - The Agricultural Economics De-
partment at Michigan State was created May 1, 1949, in the College of
Agriculture with the merger of the work in agricultural economics in the
Economics Department with the Department of rarm Management.
The first chairman of the department was Dr. Thomas K. Cowden.
Dr. Cowden's previous positions had been: (1) Professor, Agricultural
Economics, Purdue University, 1937-43; and (2) Director of Research,
American Farm Bureau Federation 1943-49. His major fields of interest
were agricultural marketing and policy. He has been President, American
Farm Economics Association, 1953-54. He is listed in Who's Who in
America. He has also served as a member of governmental and national
committees for economic development and agricultural policy.
In 1954, Dr. Lawrence L. Boger became the second chairman of the
Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State. Dr. Boger re-
ceived his graduate training at Michigan State and joined the staff of
the Economics Department in 1948. His major interests were in the
areas of agricultural prices, marketing, and administration. He became
Dean of Agriculture at Michigan State in 1969.In 1969, Dr. Dale E. Hathaway became the third chairman of the
Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State. Dr. Hathaway,
a native of Michigan, received his Doctor of Public Administration degree
from Harvard University in 1952. He joined the staff of the Economics
Department in 1948. His major interests have been in agricultural and
public policy and in administration. Dr. Hathaway is the author of many
books and other publications. He was the winner of the Distinguished
Faculty Award, Michigan State University, 1964.
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Agricultural Economics, Heads £! Department
Thomas K. Cowden1949-54
Dale E. Hathaway1969 -
1949-1954-Thomas K. Cowden came to MichiganState in 1949 and was the first Chairman of the De-partment of Agricultural Economics, 1949-54. He be-came Dean of Agriculture at Michigan State in 1954where he remained until May 1969 when he was granteda leave-of-absence to become an Assistant Secretary ofAgriculture, USDA, in charge of "Rural Development andConservation'!.
1954~1969-Lawrence L. Boger came to MichiganState University staff in 1948 and Chairman of theDepartment of AgriculturalEconomics 1954-1969. Deanof Agriculture 1969 toDr. Boger is from Indianaand received his B.S. fromPurdue in 1947, his M.A.1948, Ph.D 1950 from Michi-gan State. He took addi-tional graduate work atthe Universities of Chicagoand Harvard. He is listedin Who's Who in America,Who's Who in the Madwest,and in the American Men ofScience. Served in theU.S. Army World War II1943-45.
Lawrence L. Boger1954-69
J.2£.2. to __ - Dale E. Hathaway came to theMichigan State University staff in 1948 and becamechairman of the Department of Agricultural Eoonomicsin 1969, a position he still holds, 1972.
Dr. Hathaway is a native of Michigan and ob-tained his B.A. in economics, Michigan State in 1947and his Doctor of Public Administration, Harvard Uni-versity 1952. He served in the U.S. Navy, World WarII, 1943-46. He was Vice President of the AmericanFarm Economics Association 1962-63 and President1970-71. He has received many honors and awards.
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1952 - Agricultural Economics Department Staff and Some Graduate Assistants
First row, left to right: Orion Ulrey, Ho-Sheng Sun, Harold M. Riley, George N.Motts, Everett M. Elwood, Everett E. Peterson, Karl T. Wright, Gerald G.Quackenbush, John C. Doneth, Donald H. Stark, Roger P. Perreault.
Second row: Henry E. Larzelere, Raymond A. Higgins, Russell Mawby, Raleigh Barlowe,Dale E. Hathaway, Dale Butz, Harry S. Wilt, Elton B. Hill, Christoph Beringer,Mary Bodwell, Karl A. Vary.
Third and back rows: Philip A. Wright, Sol Alamani, Merrill E. Cravens, Darwin G.Kettering, R. Vance Wagley, Stanton P. Perry, Arthur J. Howland, Arthur Mauch,Robert C. Kramer, Lauren H. "Hi" Brown, Lawrence L. Boger, C. Raymond Hoglund,James D. Shaffer, James Nielson, Thomas K. Cowden, Durward B. Varner, andLawrence Witt.
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~-Agricultural Economics StafflB ~ Dean's Conference ~
Standing, left to right: Karl A. Vary, Lauren H. "Hi" Brown,Harry S. Wilt, Vernon L. Sorenson, C. Raymond Hoglund, Arthur Mauch,Raleigh Barlow, Lawrence W. Witt, Elton B. Hill, Ben C. French,Warren H. Vincent, Burnell R. Held, Daniel W. Sturt, Dale Butz,Glenn L. Johnson.
Seated: Donald Stark, John C. Doneth, Karl T. Wright, Everett L.Elwood, James Nielson, Lawrence L. Boger, Edwin Jones, Arthur J.Howland, Thomas K. Cowden (Chairman of the Department), Henry E.Larzelere, George N. Motts, Harold M. Riley, Dale E. Hathaway,James D. Shaffer, Gerald G. Quackenbush, Robert C. Kramer, OrionUlrey.
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~ - Committee meetings are a necessary but time-consuming feature ofpresent day University administrative procedure. This is especially truein present day operations not only i~ curriculum building and relatedcollege and departmental activities but in efforts to resolve the manyconflicts of present day University operations. Picture shows departmentchairman, Lawrence L. Boger, and department secretary, Karl T. Wright,holding a committee meeting in the Agricultural Economics conference roomin 1965.
1968 - Agricultural Economics Academic Staff
Bottom row, left to right - David Armstrong, Garland P. Wood, Glenn L. JohnsonMarion A. McMillan, Lawrence L. Boger (Chairman of the Department), Ma~ D. Zehner,Larry J. Connor', Donald J. Ricks, Leonard K. Kyle.
Second row - Jack Harvey (graduate student), Carl H. Eicher, James T. Bonnen,Dale E. Hathaway, Robert Stevens, Richard G. Heifner, Henry E. Larzelere, Karl T.Wright, Donald Epp (graduate student), Warren H. Vincent,.
Third row - Robert Gustafson, George K. Dike, Lester V. Manderscheid, WilliamRuble, Glynn McBride, W. Smith Greig, John N. Ferris, Ralph Hepp, Alvin E. House.
Fourth row - Lawrence Witt, Nic Luykx, James D. Shaffer, Arthur Mauch, John C.Doneth, W. Allan Tinsley, Verne L. Sorenson, Lauren H. Brown, George E. Rosmiller,Orion Ulrey.
Back ~ - Kelly Harrison and Richard Duvick (graduate student).
Out of town or _ unavailable for the picture - John Brake, David Cole, WilliamDexter, Barbara Ferrar, Stephen Harsh, Richard Hartwig, Marvin Hayenga, C. RaymondHoglund, Myron Kelsey, Harold Riley, Annette Schaefer, A. Allen Schmidt, AllenShapley, Ernest Smith, Pauline Sondag and Delmar Wilkin.
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TEACHING - THE EARLY YEARS
Startin~ ~ New Discipline- The histo~ of the early years of farm
management and agricultural economics at Michigan State was complicated
by the large number of different administrative units and persons involved,
as well as by the "growing pains" characteristic of a developing discipline.
During this period the area developed from a nebulous beginning in the early
1900s, to a discipline of definite and substantial content in the late 120s
and early 130s. Today, 1972, it is an important segment of the resident
teaching, extension and research activities in agriculture in the state and
nation.
During their period of development, the disciplines of farm manage-
ment and agricultural economics have played important roles in helping far-
mers in particular, and agriculture in general, adjust to a changing state
and national economy. In addition in recent years, the Agricultural Econo-
mics Department has also assisted in the improvement of agriculture in de-
veloping nations in many different parts of the world.
The early involvement of applied economics with Michigan agriculture
was not initiated by persons trained in economics. Its leaders were trained
in agriculture. It is evident from the literature that many persons in agri-
culture, farmers as well as others, were interested and active in farm man-
agement and agricultural economics long before these areas became definite
academic activities at M.S.U. And, when economics became involved in
11 For a more detailed histo~ and review of teaching in this area, thereader is referred to Ag Econ Misc. Series No. 1970-15, October 1970,entitled "Histo~ of Teaching in the Area of Agricultural Economics atMichigan State University", Part III of this hd st.o.ryseries, p. 55.
agriculture at M.S.D., it was the agriculturally trained persons in the
College of Agriculture who took the initiative and started the first
teaching, research and extension activities.
The Essay ~ Milton ~ Gard- One of the early outstanding contri-
butions to the field in Michigan was an essay by Milton J. Gard, a Cass
County farmer. He presented his paper, "General Farm Management", to
the Volinia Farmers Club (Cass County) in 1870. 11 The following is taken
from an introductory paragraph.
"It--farm management--is a subject that every cultivator of the
soil is interested in. It is a subject on which depends the suc-
cess or failure of the agriculturist. More depends upon the
proper management of a farm than upon the Quality of the soil and
the money invested. It matters not how rich the land, how much
capital is invested or labor expended if there is a lack of proper
management the result will be failure. We often see men on poor
land gaining in wealth when their neighbors, on better land, are
growing poorer year by year."
In his eleven-page essay, Mr. Gard discussed the farm management pro-
cess with clarity and shrewd analysis. Included in his essay were excel-
lent comments on (1) selection of a type of farming; (2) the best size of
farm and the economies of size; (3) maintenance of soil productivity and
handling manures; (4) crop rotation; (5) labor efficiency; (6) kinds and
amounts of livestock to keep; (7) livestock production, good animals beingnecessary; (8) machinery-- "in purchasing implements) we should be guidedby t~e principle of greatest efficiency with the least expense of muscle,"and (9) marketing the product-- "sometimes the judgment exercised in sel-ling one ye ar 's products determines the loss or profit in farming".
1/ Gard, Milton J., "General Farm Management", Board of Agriculture Re-port 1970, Michigan, p. 159-169.
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Clinton D. Smith1906-09
1914-211925-27
Early Teachers in~ Management
1906-Clinton D. Smith, Director of the MichiganState UniYersity Experiment Station 1893-1909, taughtthe first course in Farm Business Methods to shortcourse students in 1906.
Professor Smith was a graduate of Cornell Uni-versity, 1873, and came to MAC from the University ofMinnesota. He resigned in 1909 to become presidentof Brazil's first college of agriculture at Escola,Piraciabo, Sao Paulo where he presided for fouryears.
1910-Robert J. Baldwin,Director of Cooperative Ex-tension Service, MichiganState University 1910-49.He taught Business Arith-metic and Farm Bookkeepingto short course studentsin Agriculture in 1910-11.
Robert J. Baldwin1910
1909-Robert S. Shaw, Dean and Director of Agri-culture 1909-28 and President of Michigan State Uni-versity 1928-41, taught the first course at MichiganState in farm management, Ag 2, three credits, to de-gree students starting in 1914 and continuing to theyear the Department of Farm Management was created in1921. In 1925 he resumed teaching the course for twoyears, 1925-27, after which teaching the course wastaken over by Elton B. Hill.
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Mr. Gard expressed these ideas 100 years ago. In 1875, he was appointed
by Governor Bagley to the State Board of Agriculture which then governed the
College. He served six years on the Board, however, there is no evidence that
his interest in farm management was formalized into teaching or research at
Mi chigan State.
THE FIRST COURSESThe first M.S.U. course in the general area of agricultural economics
was in farm management and entitled, "Business Methods". It was taught in
the winter of 1906 by Clinton Smith, then Dean of Special Courses and
Director of the Experiment Station. The description of the course was as
follows: "Under this heading there will be given a synopsis of the laws of
most interest to farmers such as those regulating commercial paper and the
transfer of real estate; systems of bookkeeping and business methods for
the farmer; and finally the rules for the general management of farms as a
business. Students backward in arithmetic will be given an opportunity to
review it."
It is of interest to note that at a later date, 1914, Robert S. Shaw,
then Dean and Director of Agriculture and later President of M.S.U. three
times (Acting President in 1921, again in 1923-24, and President during
1928-41) taught the first course in Farm Management (Agr. 2, three credits)
to college degree students. It would appear that these early and distin-
guished administrators were pioneers in visualizing the need for adapting
business principles to successful farm operation. And, this foresight may
have contributed to their advancement to deans and administrators.The first course in the macro aspects of agricultural economics was
taught in the fall of 1911 by Wilbur Hedrick, head of the Department ofHist.ory and Economics. The course was Econ 2, "Agricultural Economics",for two credits. This course, with many changes in name, content and num-ber through the years, is still offered today.
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1923- Agricultural Club on front steps of Agricultural Hall.Bottom Row,~ft to right: Goode, E. C. Perrine, Ernest S. Weisner,E. R. Bowens, Russell J. Knight, Earl W. Southworth, Roy W. Knopf, H. W. Clark,Paul M. Barrett, H. J. Williamson, R. E. Folkes, C. D. Miller and___________Graves.Second Row: Fred Biekola, Everett R. Bristol, Harold J. Zorman, Jack Bitner,Wilson D. Harbison, Lyle B. Abel, A. M. Collins, Dean Robert S. Shaw, John C. Wilk,Hazel M. Bradley, Carl F. Abel, Elton B. Hill (Ass't ~ the Dean), E. W. Guti,Waine J. Helli, A. H. Pekuri and Blair Woodman.Top Row: Brady (with the open coat), Lauren S. Billings, A. K. Wissman,Earl A. Sindecuse, Clyde Allen, Horace Farley, A. J. Huff, Vergil O. Braun,Max K. Hood, Harold H. Every, Hester R. Bradley, George J. Dobben, Lillian Lewton,F. E. Holmes, H. B. Wilcox, Carl H. Behrens, I. S. Dunlap, C. W. McIntyre,Gordon R. Schlubatis and Britsman (on extreme right).
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The description of Economics 2 was as follows: "An advanced course
which makes specific application of economic principles to the problems of
agriculture. Farm organization, markets, transportation, credit facilities
and the social aspects of farming are the chief questions discussed." Pre-
requisite, Econ. 4, "Economic Principles". More emphasis on marketing farm
products was included in 1914. In 1918 the number of credits for the course
was increased to 5 and land economics was then included in the description.
SHORT COURSES IN AGRICULTURE
Farm Management- Following the first course in 1906, farm management
courses were offered each year and became increasingly important in the
Short Course curriculum. Business methods, farm accounting and business
arithmetic were offered during the period 1906-1910.
In the 1910-11 Short Course Catalog, there appeared for the first
time a course titled, "Farm Management", described as follows: "Includes
a consideration of special and general systems of farming in relation to
special conditions and market demands. Discussions will be taken up re-
lating to farm field plans, buildings, yards, fences, drains, rotations,
fertilizers, etc. Considerable attention will be given to methods relating
to the business side of farming."
Among the other .courses listed in the 1910-11 Short Course Catalog*
were, "Business Arithmetic" and "Bookkeeping". Robert J. Baldwin (later
to become the first Director of Agricultural Extension Work at M.A.C,1914-49) and others were listed as responsible for presenting these courses.
Business Arithmetic" and "Bookkeeping" as subjects were dropped in 1912,
but the course "Farm Management" was continued for all short-course students.
* As of April, 1967, the name of the Short Course Department, established in1906, was changed to the Institute of Agricultural Technology. In the fallof 1968, all courses scheduled in the Institute were changed from eight weeksto the regular 12-week term in line with other class schedules.
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1936 - General Agriculture, Short Course Class (29 in all)
Bottom row, seated - Ben R. Nye; Wellington B. Huntley; Elton B. Hill, instructor;Donald S. Lamm; Lowell N. Harry; Jim E. Chadwick; Clayton E. Osborn.
Second row - Emmett E. Noggle; Gary O. Newton; Robert B. Tainter; Clifford E. C.Peterson; Richard A. Christenson; Holger T. Rasmussen; Fred E. Young; Samuel L.Berry; Otto B. Schelhas.
~ row - William F. Barr; Victor F. Holshoe; Lyle Ogg; Charles H. Cole; William W.Clegg, Alex Gittleman, John C. Evatt, Frank Doan.
Others not included in the picture - Donald Klein; Newell McNeil; Francisco S.Mendiola; Ruben L. Nersesian, Donna L. Russell; Frank Wagner.
In 1917, Ashley Berridge, a graduate of M.A.C. and farming -with his
father on the home farm near Greenville, Michigan, became the first Direc-tor of Short Courses at M.A.C., on a half-year basis. He and Dean Shaw
assumed responsibility for teaching farm management courses to short course
students. Farm finance was first offered in 1918.
The first Farm Management Department initiated July 1, 1921, was
abolished in May of 1923 by M.S.U. President David Friday as a result of a
difference of opinion over a news release Eliot proposed to give to local
media. Eliot's recorded termination date was June 30, 1923. Fred Riddell,
the only survivor of the 10-man staff, continued to teach the short courses
of Farm Management and Farm Accounting until 1927. All other courses offered
in 1922-23 were dropped from the listing in the 1923-24 Short Course Cat-
alog.
In 1927, Elton Hill, then Assistant to Robert Shaw, Dean and Director
of Agriculture.after taking graduate work in farm management at Cornell Uni-
versity took over the job of teaching farm management and farm accounting.
Hill and Lauren Brown continued to teach these subjects to short course
students until 1959-60 when the subjects were assigned to Everett Elwood
and Karl Wright, and later to Myron Kelsey and Leonard Kyle.
Economics (Agricultural)- Agricultural Economics S 35 was the title
and number of a course first introduced in 1928 for short course students
by the Economics Department and has been offered continuously each year since
that date (since 1949 by the Agricultural Economics Department), a period
of 40 years (1930-1970). Prof. Orion Ulrey was the first instructor for
this course and taught the subject many times until 1965.
In 1946, the Short Cour~e Department initiated a training course in
"Elevator and Farm Supply Business Operation and Management". This course
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consisted of two l2-week terms of resident work at the University. Each
term was divided into two 6-week courses. In addition, two l2-week periods
of placement training under University supervision were required and one
week of special residence work was given immediately before the completion
of the course.
The Elevator and Farm Supply Course was reorganized in 1947-48, its
second year. 'Three instead of two l2-week sessions were scheduled and were
offered for 12 instead of 6-week periods. In the process, three of the
eight courses in economics offered in 1946-47 were dropped in 1947-48: (1)
Econ 55, "Legal Concepts of Cooperative Law"; (2) Econ 57, "Cooperative Fi-
nance and Credit"; and (3) Econ 58, "Policy and Techniques of Cooperative
Marketing of Farm Products and Mechanizing of Farm Supplies".
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES(Degree Students)
Economics Department 1911-49
The first course offered to M.S.U. degree students in agricultural eco-
nomics was Econ 2, "Agricultural Economics~, two credits, in the fall of
1911 by Wilbur Hedrick. The second course offered was Econ 11, "Rural
Organization", 3 credits in the fall of 1915, also taught by Hedrick.
Rural Organization emphasized rural sociology and the name and course con-
tent lasted only one year. In 1916 it was changed to "Farmers' Cooperatives
and Other Farm Businesse?". It was then discontinued in 1918 and replaced
by Econ 3a, "Farmer's Cooperative Associations and Applied Accounting",
5 credits, also given by Hedrick in 1918 and 1919. Hale Tenant assisted
in the course in 1920. Dr. John Horner, a new staff member in 1922, taughtthe subject until 1925. Dr. Claude Clayton was the instructor from 1925
to 1928 when he resigned. The course number was changed to 303a in 1927,and in 1929 the name was changed to "Principles of Cooperation" and taught
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by Orion Ulrey.
The first course in marketing of farm products presented by the
Department of Economics was Econ 12, taught in 1916 by Hedrick. Since
that date this first course in marketing has been offered continuously
with five changes in number designation (Econ 12, 312, Ag Econ 322,
342 and now Ag Econ 441) and with only minor title change. The first
course in marketing has been one of the most consistent offered during
the 58-year period, 1911-1972.
The real push in teaching in this area began in the fall of 1923
after a new staff member, John Horner, had been added in 1922. The agri-
cultural section of the department, now staffed by Hedrick and Horner,
offered seven new undergraduate courses, and at the same time initiated
four graduate courses.
~ Management Department, 1914-49
As indicated previously, the first course in farm management offered
to degree students at MAC was Agriculture 2, "Farm Management", in 1914.
This course under the same name and number was continued until 1927 when
the designation was changed to Farm Management 302, "Farm Management".
In turn, this course was changed to Farm Mgt 202 in 1945 and to Ag Econ 101
in 1952, and was offered continuously for 46 years until it was dropped
in 1960.
In 1929, the course offerings in Farm Management were increased by
the introduction of Farm Mgt 303, "Statistics of Crops and Livestock",
which was taught by Verne Church, then in charge of the Michigan Crop and
Livestock Reporting Service. This course was continued with different in-
structors until 1957, a period of nearly 30 years. Karl Wright was the
instructor during the last 15 years. In 1958 a somewhat similar course,
Ag Econ 447, "Analysis and Presentation of Agricultural Data", was intro--36-
1938 was first graduating class in Farm Management after a farm managementmajor was authorized in 1936 at Michigan State.
1943-~ Management 410 "Farm Planning" field trip to the farm of CarlyleWaltz, Mason, Ingham County in the World War II period. Classes were smallduring those years.
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'Fall.....Farm Management Ma.jors(1937)
'Front~, left to right:Robert L. Olmstead,D. Sheldon Crossman, HaroldL. Sparks, David D. Diehl,Paul R. Pennock, EdmundW. Banktson.
Back~: Clare A. Graft,Howard C. Sackrider, Wil-liam H. Forgrave, Vernon F.Hinz, Paul Tirpkovich, AndyJohnson, Elton B. Hill.
In the picture fromleft to right: Mr. Vaughn,former owner of the farm;Karl A. Vary, CarlyleWaltz, son-in-law of Mr.Vaughn and owner-operatorof the farm; Donald L.Wallace, Milton J. Hagel-berg, Elmer C. Sikkema,Robert C. Manby, Keh ChiYang and Byron E. Carpen-ter. Instructor E. B.Hill took the photo andthus was not included inthe picture.
duced; the course number was changed to Ag Econ 4.70 in 1960, and is still
being offered in 1972.
Two more courses in Farm Management were initiated in 1930, namely,
Farm Management 301, "Farm Accounting" and Farm Management 404, "Successful
Mi chigan Farms".
"Farm Accounting" was continued until 1952, a period of 22 years.
Wright was the instructor for 18 of the 22 years. The course was revived
in 1959 and continued until 1966 when it was again dropped. The majority
of the Agricultural Economics staff was apparently of the opinion that
farm accounting was no longer a subject of importance to Michigan agricul-
ture. This was done at a time when one of the most important developments
was t~ing place in the Agr~cultural Economics Department, the development
of the Telfarm electronic data processing project.
The second course initiated by the Department in 1930 was Farm Mgt 404,
"Successful Michigan Farms". This course taught by Elton Hill proved to be
very popular with agricultural students, having enrollments of from 50 to 80students each year. The course consisted of 3 half-day field trips to two
farms on each trip and 3 full-day trips, usually on Saturday, during which
4 farms were visited. The farmers visited approved of the students having
copies of their farm record summaries. By studying the farmers' farm record
summaries, students could observe the organization and practices being fol-
lowed on individual farms, and the ensuing financial results.
The trips were made in Greyhound buses. For many years, the Dean of
Agriculture, Ernest L. Anthony, took the position that the Farm Management
Department did not have expensive laboratories or related facilities as
did many other departments. Michigan farms were the basis of much of the
laboratory work in farm management, and consequently the University paid
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!!l!~ - ~ Management 404, Successful Michigan Farms, ~ Students*(On Steps of Agricultural Hall)
H. "Hi" Brown; 2 Raymond Floate; 3 Paul R. Pennock; 4 James J.Johnson; 6 Ernest L. Froelich; 7 Gerald E. Memmer; 8 Duane W.
; and 10 •1 ; 2 Everett J. Young; 3 Stanley R. Pollyea; 4 Clare W.Campana; 6 Jack Little; 7 Raymond Hill; and 8 Stanley A. Ma-
First Row: 1 LaurenBarrett; 5 AndrewDalgleish; 9
Second Row, seated:Dunworth; ,5 Johnhaffey.
Third Row, standing! seated: 1 Charles R. Kaufman; 2 ; 3 Lloyd Campbell; 4Bertil A. Kranz; 5 6 7 Clare A. Graft; 12 Jack A. Prescott; 13
; 14 ; 15 ; 16 ; 17 ; }8 Dee L. Weaver; 19 John W.Hamp; 20 J. Lyle Littlefield; 21 22 Arvid W. Norline; 23 Donald P.Anderson.
Back rows, standing: 1 ; 2 3 ; 4 James G. Mitchell; 5 Louis·E.Webb; 6 Carl H. Moore; 7 ; 8 9 ; 10 Louis Reutter; 11 ThomasThacker; 12 Wilbur Lohr; 13 Elton B. Hill, instructor; 14 Richard Simmons;15 ; 16 ; 17 ; 18*Class list not available. Instructor, Elton B. Hill, left about mid-term for a
year's leave-of-absence at the University of Puerto Rico and the class was takenover by Clyde O. May, Extension Specialist in Farm Management. In the transfer,the class list appears to have been lost or misplaced. Thus, the twenty-five stu-dents whose names could not be determined at this date, 1971, some 33 years later.
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and students were required to pay a share of the costs. Many students
commented that this course was one of their best in college. The course
was continued for 30 years with the same number and much the same procedure
until 1959 when it was dropped.
Another major offering in Farm Management was Farm Mgt 410, "Farm
Planning", initiated in the spring of 1945 by Hill. This course was dis-
continued in 1952 after a period of 7 years. In this course, the class
visited an account cooperating farmer who was making plans for co~tinuing
growth and expansion. Soil survey reports for the farm were made available
Instructors from other departments in the College of Agriculture cooperated
in presenting the subject matter.
Agricultural Economics Department 1949-69Consolidation of the Agricultural Econqmics section of the Economics
Department in the College of Arts and Science with Farm Management in the
College of Agriculture occurred in May, 1949. Major chapges in course
offerings did not occur until the college year of 1952-53. In the fall of
1952 the following changes appeared:
Courses dropped, fall 1952Ag Econ 301 3(2-2) Farm AccountingAg Econ 306 3(3-0) Type & Systems of FarmingAg Econ 341 3(3-0) Urban Land EconomicsAg Econ 410 3(2-2,) Farm PlanningAg Econ 464 Field Studies
Courses added, fall 1952Ag Econ 336Ag Econ 339Ag Econ 301
2(2-0)2(2-0)4(4-0) Ag Econ
the title
Marketing Poultry ProductsMarketing Livestock and MeatFarm Organization and Management.No. 301 in previous years carried"Farm Accounting".
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TEACHING
]!l! 1939 - ~ Management 404, Successful Michigan Farms Class
First row, left to right: 1. Charles W. Valleau, 2. Bela E. Kennedy,3. Walter P. Shroeder, 4. Harold R. Long,S. Oscar J. Fischer,6. Robert F. Stone, 7. Earl E. Fenton, 8. Beryl B. Rendell,9. William B. Lutz, 10. Charles L. Langdon, 11. Richard G. Miles,12. Bernard H. Bergin, and 13. Harris K. Miller.
Second row: 1. Wayne A. LeCureux, 2. Texton R. Miller, 3. Francis C.Godbold, 4. Peter S. Calabrese,S. John D. Johnson, 6. WinfredK. Burkett, 7. Paul B. Thompson, and 8. M. Keith Russell.
Back rows: 1. Robert W. McIntosh, 2. Richard F. Woodruff, 3. Earl F.---- Oberst, 4. Luther H. Bailey, 5. Robert S. Jennings, 6. Arthur J.
Steeby, 7. Earl F. Oberg, 8. Verne A. Vandemark, 9. Clark H.Bullen, 10. Leonard R. Kyle, 11. Frederick G. Harlan, 12. BookerHolmes, 13. Arthur H. Haist, 14. Howard R. Clupper, 15. John C.Evatt, 16. Kenneth A. Swanson, and 17. Clyde o. May, instructor.
Three courses ~n farm management and two in agricultural economics
were dropped; and two courses in marketing and one in farm management were
added. Ag Econ 341 "Urban Land Economics" was combined with Ag Econ 340,
"Rural Land Economics".
The new course in farm.management, Ag Econ 301 (4-0) "Farm Organiza-
tion and Management" emphasized the principles of production economi.cs, but
continued to include assignments in farm accounting. References to farm
accounting, however, were dropped in the course description in 1956-57. In
1960, the name of the course was changed to "Agricultural Production Econo-
mics". In 1966, the course number was changed to Ag Econ 401 and the title
again changed to "Production Economics and Management".
GRADUATE COURSES
Economics Department, 1923-49
To meet the demand for additional studies in agricultural economics
beyond undergraduate courses, the Economics Department at Michigan State
initiated four graduate courses in the fall of 1923. The department teach-
ing staff, consisting of Wilbur Hedrick and John Horne~ was already offer-
ing nine courses for undergraduates. Thus, these two staff members gave
instruction in 13 different courses throughout the year. In addition,
Horner was doing some research. Teaching was a major job in those days,
and instructors did not have much time for extracurricular activities.
The four graduate courses initiated in the fall of 1923 were:
Econ 100Econ 101Econ 102Econ 105
Economics of Food SupplyMarket ResearchLand TenureFarm Industry (essentially a course in farm management)
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1946 - ,Farm Nanagement 404, ~uccessful Nichigan Farms on a visit to aTuscola County Farm. Trips were made in a Mlchigan State University bus.There were 34 students in the class as follows:
Stanley T. Atkinson, Renaud A. Bennett, Russell L. Berry, Clare C.Chamberlain, Donovan G. Cronkhite, Robert M. Currey, Larry G. Davis, FrancisE. Ferguson, William Z. Frey, Donald E. Graham, Raymond M. Gregerson, HollieJ. Guist, Carl J. Hagen, Philip A. Haight, Bert E. Henke, Frank R. Hillman,Clarence E. Johnson, Vernon C. Larson, Donald L. Lecureux, Leslie E.McDonald, John C. Mohler, Thomas N. Moss, Max J. Pettitt, William S. Pryer,Alson E. Pusey, Robert D. Rich, Ismail Sener, Jaswant Singh, Jacob G.Venema, Warren H. Vincent, Arthur B. Ward, Lewis C. Wood, Bruce G. Zumwalt,William Zurakowski.
E.B. Hill, instructor, on the left. Jaswant Singh, a Sikh from Punjab,India on the right. Picture by Carl Hagen, a member of the class.
A seminar in Agricultural Economics, Econ 104, was added in the fall
of 1924. A new teaching staff me1Ilber,Claude Clayton, came to the depart-
ment in 1926. The foregoing courses were changed to the 500 series in 1921,but the names and offerings continued the same until the fall of 1930, a
period of 1 years, when all but one, Econ 504, Agricultural Economics, were
dropped. A new course, Econ 501, "Land Economics", was added the following
year, 1931 ..The Economics Department continued to offer only two graduate courses,
Econ 504 and Econ 501, for a period of 16 years, 1931 to 1941. However,
for one year only, 1940, Econ 551, "Agr. Finance Seminar", was offered.
In 1946, Clifford Hardin, who is in 1912 Secretary of the United States
Department of Agriculture, initiated Econ 508, "Marketing Research".
The real push in graduate offerings in Agricultural Economics was
initiat~d in the fall of 1941 by Herman Wyngarden, who became head of the
Department of Economics in the fall of 1946. He had been Acting Head from
the fall of 1943. Clifford Hardin arrived at Michigan State in December,
Farm Management Department, 1939-49The Farm Management Department initiated graduate work in the fall of
1939 with two subjects:
Farm Mgt 500Farm Mgt 501
Farm Organization and ManagementCost of Production Studies
Five courses were offered in 1941, which included in addition the
following:
Farm Mgt 501Farm Mgt 508Farm Mgt 509
Land Tenure and TenancyFarm Management and Land UseResearch Methods in Farm Management
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First row, left to right: Kenneth Austin, Richard Labadie, Mary Kriegsmann, GlenCook, Arthur Bergman, Clement o. Gardner, Lawrence Boger, Dale Butz.
Second row: Millard Fox,Thomas K. Cowden, Karl T.Wright, Robert Nemcik, DavidGirton, Freeman Lytle,Arthur Purcell, and --:---Third row: Donald Fedewa,Thomas-stonehouse, Robert C.Kramer, James Rock, RichardTemple, Vozeni1ek,Richard Nienhuis, and Mich-ael Reische.Fourth row: Roger Miller,Roland Nielson, Donald Fray-er, Gordon Landsburg andPaul Wilkes.
TEACHING
l2il - Agricultural Economics Club
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1949 - The class inFarm Management 404 "Suc-cessful Michigan Farms",with Hi Brown as instructor,on a visit to the WarrenByrum farm near Leslie, Ing-ham County, Michigan. FarmManagement 404 was replacedin 1960-61 by Farm Manage-ment 451 (5 credits) andfarm visits by the classwere discontinued. In thisview, Warren was tellingthe story of his farmingoperations to studious stu-dents taking notes.
Farm Management 509 was dropped in 1942 and the number of graduate
offerings continued at four subjects for eight years until the merger of
the Agricultural Economic Section of the Economics. Department and the
Department of Farm Management in May, 1949.
Agricultural Economics Department, 1949 to 1972Graduate offerings after the merger of the two departments remained
about the same for the next two years, 1950 and 1951. The committee, which
was appointed in 1950 to review the graduate courses in the new department,
came up with a revised program first offered in the fall of 1952. At this
time, graduate courses began to receive greater emphasis. The number of
courses was increased. The content of the offerings indicated an endeavor
to include subject matter in keeping with the progress in the general area
of agriculture, agricultural finance, mathematics, electronic computers
and United States assistance in developing countries.
Seven courses were dropped and nine added. Number designations on
most retained courses were changed. The major changes effected in subject
matter may be observed by a study of the offerings. Initiated were (1) pro-
duction economics; (2) land problems and policies; (3) work simplification;
(4) concern for the economy of underdeveloped countries; (5) research
methods; (6) greater emphasis on agricultural prices and marketing.
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RESEARCH
Early Resource Material - Resource material in farm management and agri-
cultural economics was very limited in the early days. The first Michigan
State University publication in this area was a farm management bulletin by
Professor Clinton D. Smith, then Director of the Agricultural Experiment
Station, (Mich. Agr. Exp. Sta. Spec. Bul. 9, "Suggestions on Farm Accounts",
November 1898, 12 pages).
The first major research in farm management in Michigan might well be
considered to date from April 1, 1912 when M. J • Thompson was appointed
as Field Agent, Farm Management Field Studies and directed to obtain farm
records, by the survey method, and to make a business analysis of field
records. Mimeograph reports were prepared from these studies and used by
extension representatives of the College as an aid in improving farm earn-
ings.
A major farm management study in Lenawee County, Michigan was made by
H. M. Dixon and J. A. Drake in 1917. It was published as U.s. Department
of Agr. Bul. 694 "A Study of Farm Management Problems in Lenawee County",
July 24, 1918, pp. 36. The Lenawee Survey included records from 300 owner
farms and 153 tenant farms.
The next major piece of research in the general area of agricultural eco-
nomics at M.S.U. was also in farm management, but it was conducted under
the auspices of the Dairy Husbandry Department and was entitled, "Cost of
Milk Production Studies." This project was started in September, 1913, by
Fred Riddell and Prof. A. C. Anderson, head of the Dairy Husbandry Depart-
mente The result of this research, which continued for a period of seven
years, was published in two bulletins: (1) Mich. Agr. Exp. Sta. Reg. Bul.277, December 1916, and (2} Reg. Bul. 286, January 1920, both titled "Studiesin the Cost of Milk Production". Riddell was transferred to the newly es-tablished department of Farm Management in 1921.
In 1919, Prof. Harry Eustace and Floyd Barden of the Horticultural
Department were authors of Mich. Exp. Sta. Spec. Bul. 94, "The Financial
History of a l2-Year-Old Peach Orchard", 16 p., with an issue of 20,000.
The first research project in the macro araa of agricultural economics
was by Wayne Newton of the Economics Department and appointed Feb. 18, 1920.
Mr. Newton's study was in the area of rural taxation with special reference
to school taxes.In 1921 Howard M. Eliot, conducted numerous farm product cost-study
surveys by mail. In addition, h~ set up five cost-account routes: dairy,
potatoes, general farming, feeder cattle farms, and fruit farms. Routes
had about 26 farmers in each. Farms were visited by the route man once a
month.Other and subsequent types of research are presented on the following
pages of this section. For personnel involved in later research see "Bio-
graphical Sketches of Personnel at Michigan State College in areas of Agri-
cultural Economics and Farm Management", Misc. Series No. 1968-9, July 1968
and Part II of this historical series by E. B. Hill.
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1930-39 Spec. Bul. 206 (1930, 1939, and 1954) Types of Farming in MichiganSpec. Bu1. 209 (1931) Consumer Demand for Apples in MichiganSpec. Bul. 247 (1934) Recreational Use of Northern Michigan Cut-Over LandsSpec. Bu1. 300 (1939) The Kalamazoo Milk MarketTech. Bul. 139 (1934) Michigan Farm Prices and Costs, 1910-14
1970 RR 96 (1970) Michigan's Changing Dairy FarmingRR 129 (1971) Conversion of Farm Assets for Retirement Purposes
* For a complete list of Farm Management and Agricultural Economics Mimeographpublications see Ag Econ Mimeo 990 Dec. 1964, "Bibliography of Farm Managementand Agricultural Economics Mimeograph, 1927-64" by E. B. Hill and MarthaMarshall.
1890-,99
1910-19
1920-29
1940-49
1950-59
1960-69
Experiment Station PublicationsSomewhat Typical .£!... ~ Decade .!E. Which Pub1ished*
Spec. Bu1. 9 (1898) Suggestions on Farm Accounts
Reg. Bu1. 277 (1916) Studies in the Cost of Milk ProductionSpec. Bu1. 99 (1919) The Detroit Commission Plan of City Milk AdministrationSpec. Bul. 94 (1919) The Financial History of a 12-Year Old Peach Orchard
Spec. Bu1. 187 (1924) What Makes Some Farms PaySpec. Bu1. 139 (1925) Tourist CampusCirc. Bu1. 100 (1927) Michigan Farmers' Tax Guide
Spec. Bu1. 301 (1940) Michigan Tax rrends as Related to AgricultureCirc. Bul. 182 (1942) Farm Management Aspects of the WarSpec. Bu1. 330 (1944) Father and Son Farm PartnershipsSpec. Bu1. 334 (1945) Improving Farm Labor EfficiencySpec. Bu1. 355 (1949) Seasonal Price Changes of Michigan Farm ProductsSpec. Bu1. 357 (1949,)How to Keep the Farm in the Family
Tech. Bul. 220 (1950) Agriculture trade and Reciprocal Trade AgreementsSpec. Bu1. 363 (1952) Pen Type Dairy BarnsSpec. Bul. 368 (1951) Family Farm Operating AgreementsSpec. Bu1. 371 (1951) Michigan Red Cherry PricesSpec. Bu1. 388 (1955) Inheritance of Farm Property in Michigan
Circ. Bu1. 234 (1963) Family Farm Operating AgreementsSpec. Bu1. 431 (1960) The Land Contract as a Finance PlanSpec. Bu1. 436 (1961) Family Farm Transfers and Some Tax ConsiderationsRR 7 (1964) Investments and Annual Costs for Alternate Beef Caet1e Feeding
SystemsRR 56 (1966) Father-Son Farming AgreementsRR 37 (1966) Highlights and Summary Project 80RR 76 (1968) Financing Expansion to Large Scale Dairy Farming
A card index of all Agricultural Economics publications from 1898 through 1964has also been prepared by E. B. Hill and is in Agricultural Economics ReferenceRoom. -49-
RESEARCH
NOVEMBER, 1898. 1898 .-Special Bulletin No. 9 "Sug-gesti~on Farm Accounts" was the firstformal research publication at MichiganState in the areas of farm management andagricultural economics. The author wasClinton D. Smith, Director of the Agricul-tural Experiment Station. ProfessorSmith's picture appears as one of the earlyteachers in the "teaching section" of thisreport.
SPECIAL BULLETIN NO.9.
MICIHGAN STATE RXPER!arEN'f STATION.
:':;l"Gr;V:STfONSON fAH~l i\{·(·~),UNTS,
C. D, S.MlTH.
~,~~f~I~~:~~l~~~al~~I~c:~~17:J;~::F~::~~~~~~;i:~,~~~~::~;~~:)~;~~~~?~;:~~~~~or at least to report ndgiuul \,of'1;: Jot t~w tu-st, tuuv. .b~'Ch..lJas. been;83\1( .."<1to meet some ~p\'-ei3J rcqutremcnr. ~t}n:H~ of them lH.lV~ been l~SUedat, ttJll{',8 wheu there were d.t'l'nmHtt., iunncdiate .au.d emphatl(', tor .u.d~H··ttlutiou in regard ro some specific topics, ()lllt'I~8 W(,l~t~.8f'ttt O.ll,l. to fl:~.I:'UH:!t't('iustitutt;·s to Jllustrate to (tUmt:fi!i, not upon llu' regular llli.lllHlg Iist, thew~~l'k or the Statioll. .
..\. law passed marlY years ago directs the issuing Qf QI~H'?tJns by _tlH~ Col-h:'g~ lind pl.'ov-idpto!: to I' tll.·h· ptintiu~, but leavr-s the toVU,:S to b~ discussedto the [udgment llf t~ie lwads o,f thi.~dl:'p~rt1:wnb. I}'h~yl:n~l.Yl'elat,(' tlH.~,~e-(OJ"t:!to h1tbj~~(~hoof intt'I't),st tf) ,!\litl.tigan ~_\gl.'WUH\1l'(-'l altnough not suscept--ible to scic'utific tl"e.otnwHt UO'" f't'hrtt'd to t'XJ.i'I..~l'iuy.,ttt.s. Tile Ht,ati'-)~ l~rom.isc"<i ro members ~)f the t'~H'nwt'):;t in!o<.l'ilute S()('iNH~~ ~'ho would (~()"'\)Vt!l'l\~~
ill .k~piug tarm aecounts, tLe puhlkAiio.n 01 ~ bune~j~,O!J that t,?,pic thtsautumn. Iu compli~HW(~ with that PI'o)J\lse thllol bulletin JS offered.
The author stated this bulletin wasincluded in the research series because itwas the only series of farm bulletins thenissued by 'the college. He disclaimed thatthe contents had any relation to "scien..:..tific treatment or was related to experi-ments". It was designated simply as abulletin on a "subject of interest toMichigan agriculture" and issued by the Ex-periment Station in the research series.
T~J;& AN INVENTORY EVHRY yua.
There at'f" two account Looks that (·'l:-ers ("rawl' shonld kf'~P/wllet~~{'rhilt Iarm b.~large or small, and whether hf' carries ou OIlf',kind o~ farJiungonly (U' many. These two b()-()ks. tH'e au inn'utm',)' houk and a memorau-durn book,
'It would seem unuecessary to dw(,l,1 in HlI)' It-·ngth upon th(4 ad~i.sttbnity.luJtouutiug ahnost to a Uf'('t:'I;$i.tr,ollHHiu~ :11:hand an inventory, U list ofall the llr()1}(~1'1y that a mnn possr-ssee, W(lI"H it not lhat the matter i.i4 well
:i:~~~l;~):~t;t~_~r~~;~~~::=~t;·li;':i)lll~~~tt~~'\~~~~l.t:~:-:~~I\~~(~);nl'~);·::~~~i:;l~~~eW::::;~el'
The author notes that the publicationof that bulletin was the result of a prom-ise to members of farmers' institute so-cieties that such a bulletin would be pre-
pared. This early interest of Michgan farmers in farm accounting is worthy ofnote. And so Michigan State University has been helping farmers in the statewith their accounting problems ever since 1898 and up to the present day (1971)program of the very sophisticated electronic Tel-Farm Extension project in thekeeping and analysis of farm records.
The bulletin provides information re: (1) the annual inventory,memorandum book, (3) the day book, (4) the cash record, and (5) accountsdifferent parts of the farm business. The bulletin closes with examplesday book, the cash ledger and the field record.
(2) thewithof the
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BULLf.T1N NO. 711
RESEARCH
MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
EXPERIMENT STATION
DEPAHT1\mNT OJ.' DAlHY nUSBANDltY
STUDIES IN THE COST OF MARKET MILKPRODUCTION
A. C. A;snElt50:!'I ANJJ 1.0', '1'. HU)!)ELI,
'j'lHl County .:togol'l}\ of l{(lllt, C('llIU'l' (.'flflf..,.tat1ft:r, .uHt th. Dair, Divll"lt)fl of u.e 1]. s., nllr~u (tt
AtHm:tllnUl.liltrYf:'Quf<-'J.'nnJ:',·
1916 - Regular Bulletin No. 277 "Studies in theOost ofMarket""Milk Production" by A. C. Anderson and Fred T. Riddellof the Department of Dairy Husbandry, Dec. 1916, 40 pp was thefirst exhaustive research bulletin on farm management at Michi-gan State. Prof. Anderson was head of the Dairy Department.Fred Riddell was transferred to the newly established Farm Man-agement Department March 1, 1921. The study was made on farmsin the Grand Rapids area supplying milk to the Grand Rapids MilkProducers' Association.
Some interesting data on dairy farms 55 years ago and now 1971are as follows: man hours per cow per year then 175, now, 1971,about 60 hours; expenditures per cow $150 now about $700; poundsof milk produced per cow then 7,042 now about 11,500; averageprice for milk per 100 lb. of milk delivered in the City ofGrand Rapids $1.91 now about $6; milk receipts per cow then$15'7.70 and now about $700; net cost per 100 lbs. milk then $1.89now about $6; average:humber of cows per farm then 17.7 and nowunder similar conditions 43.
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RESEARCH
1927 - Michigan Cir. Bul. No. 100, Jan.1927,-entitled "Michigan Farmers Tax Guide"12 pp was by R. Wayne Newton of the Econom-ics Department. Farm incomes were not goodin the early '20s and taxes were taking anincreasing portion of the farmers' income.Thus, the tax problem was becoming of in-creasing concern to farmers and to MichiganState University.
MICHIGAN FARMERSTAX GUIDE
R. Wayne N~'Wton
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATtON
MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGEOf Agriculture and Applied Science
1929 - Michigan Special Bulletin 187,"Whatlfuk'es Home Farms Pay", Feb. 1929 byE. B. Hill and Fred T. Riddell was the firstfarm management bulletin published at Michi-gan State. The information presented inthis publication came from a survey of 114Eaton County farm business operations forthe yearending 1,I,t;Feb. 28
ECONOMICS SECTION
1~28.The bulletin pointed out the great varia-
tion in farm incomes eveh between adjoiningfarms of similar size and soil types. Onfarms of simi.lar size the operating expensesremained about the same regardless of the a-mount of income.
What Makes Some Farms PayA Bu.in~ •• Anal)' ••••of 114 Farm. in
£aton County, Michi••••
E, D, HilL AND F. T,RIDDEt.L
In the year 1927-28, one third of the114 farms had tractors. The average size offarm was 131 acres. Average numbers of live-stock per farm were as follows: cows, 6;sows 1 to 2; ewes, 20; and hens, 67. Grossincome per cow was $141; pertiSOW, $140; perewe $10; and per hen $1.17. Crop area perman was 53 acres. The man equivalent perfarm (131 acres in size) was 1.4.
AGRrCULTURA.L EXPERIMENT STATION
MICHfCAN STATE COLLEGE()( Agri"ullur~ .nil Applied Sci"n ee
FARM MANAGKMENT SECTION
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RESEARCH.
1943 - The Agricultural Economics and Farm Management Departments have doneand c~nue to do much research on the subject of farm prices. This Farmers' Weekexhibit by the Farm Management Department in 1943 portrayed graphically Michiganfarm prices for the period1910-42, Sometimes wronginferences can be drawnfrom such historical in-formation. The chart sug-gests paying old debts willmake the future brighter.True. But 1943 was not abad time to go in debt forfarm real estate which hasgreatly increased in pricesince that date.
Technical Bulletin No, 139
Michigan Farm Prices and Costs1910-1934
ORION ULREY
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGEOf Agricultur,,"and Applied Science
SECTION OF ECONOMICS
JLl~e, 1914 1934 - Technical Bulletin No. 139, June1934, with 100 pages was Michigan State'sfirst overall study of farm prices. Thetitle was "Michigan Farm Prices and Costs,1910-24". The author was Dr. Orion Ulreyof the Economics Department who was ap-pointed on September 1, 1928. It was hisfirst publication. For years the bulletinwas a 1f1andmark" at Michigan State in thearea of farm prices and costs.
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RESEARCH
1943 - Spraying pota-toes ~he farm of HiramSackett and Sons near Stan-ton in Montcalm County,Michigan. The Sacketts werefarm account cooperators formany years and one of theearly growers of a consid-erable acreage of potatoes.
On a visit to the Sack-ett farm during potato har-vest time, E. B. Hill askedhis son Keith -- How longthey had bean working at po-tato harvest? The answer,about three weeks. Hill'sresponse, "That's longer andharder work than hay har~vest.1t Keith's response,
"Yes, but there is more money in it." That was the Sacketts' response to the pro-duction of high value crops for profit.
Mr. Sackett once asked Herbert A. Berg, then a farm management extensionspecialist, how large a business he would need to provide a profitable businessfor himself and one son, also for himself and two sons. As a result of Mr. Berg'ssuggestion, Mr. Sackett bought more land on which to enlarge the farm businesswith the hope of making it adequate for a profitable 3-man operation.
~ - C. Raymond Hoglund,farm management researcher,discussing dairy problems andproposals with Marvin Lott, adairy farmer in Ingham County.Prof. Hoglund was making astudy of factors effecting ef-ficiency in feed harvestingand storage systems on Michi-gan dairy farms. Mr. Lott,who had made rather drasticchanges from a hay to a high-silage feeding system was oneof the cooperators in thestudy.
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#~ a,:t:~sa,eFARM PARTNERSHIPS
ByELTON B.IULL
MICHIGAN srATll COLLEGE. AGRICULTURAL IlXP,ERIMl!l'.'T STATION
RESEARCH
Special Bulletin 357
1944 - Michigan State was one of the col-leges~give, at an early date, major, emphasisto family farm-operating agreements. The firstbulletin in this area at Michigan State was in1944, Spec. Bul. 330 "Father and Son Farm Part-nerships" by Elton B. Hill.
This pioneer Michigan bulletin contained in-formation on father-son farm partnerhip~, andalso information on (1) transferring farm prop-erty from one generation to the next and (2)federal and state inheritance and gift taxes.
Later, E. B. Hill of ·Michigan State andMarshall Harris of the Bureau of AgriculturalEconomics, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture cooperatedin the preparation of two North Central RegionalPublications in this area as follows: (1)"Family Farm Operating Agreements", NCRP 17,Jan. 1951, and (2) "Family Farm Operating Agree-ments", NCRP 143, March 1963. Each of thesebulletins had issues in excess of 75,000 copies.
1949 - Russell L. Berry, Elton B. Hill, andSidney Henderson cooperated in a study of manyMichigan farm families and authored Mich. Agr.Exp. Sta. Spec. Bul. 357, "How to keep the Farmin the Family", April 1949. This was one of theearliest bulletins in the United States providinginformation to farm families on this importantsubject.
Since 1949 the Agricultural Economics Depart-ment has published or has been a cooperator inpublishing several bulletins in this area, namely:(1) North Central Regional Bulletin No. 18 "Fam-ily Farm Transfer Arrangements", 1951 by MarshallHarris and E. B. Hill; (2) Mich. Spec. Bul. 388"Inheritance of Farm Property in Michigan", 1953and revised in 1959 -- by Ellis, Barlowe, andHill; (3) Mich. Spec. Bul. 395 "How Michigan In-heritance Laws Affect Farm Ownership and Opera-tion", 1955 by Ellis, Barlowe, and Hill; (4)Mich. Spec. Bul. 424 "Impact of Taxes and LegalCosts on Farm Transfers and Estate Settlements",1959 by E. B. Hill; (5) Mich. Spec. Bul. 436(North Central Publication 127) "Family Farm Trans-fers and Some Tax Considerations"; 1961, by Hilland Har rLs ; and (6) Mich. Ext. Servo Bul. 628"Farm Transfers and Estate Settlements •.• Taxesand Legal Costs", 1970 by E. B. Hill.
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APRIL 1949
How to KEEP YourFARM in the FAMILY
8y
RUSSEll L. BERRY AND UTON B. HILL'arm Management Sedlon
AGRICULTURAl. IXPIR/lrllNr STATION
MICHIGAN STAU COLLEGEloUT LANSrNG
andSIDNEY HENDERSON
Bureau of Agricultural EconomicsUNITED srarrs DEPARrMENr 01 AGRICULTURE
PROJECT '80RURAL MICHIGANNow and in 1980
RESEARCH
1966 - In the years 1965 and 1966 thevarious departments of Michigan State Uni-versity Agricultural Experiment Station andCooperative Extension Service cooperated onProject l80. Sixteen reports were publish-ed. The summaries of these reports arepresented in Research Report 37 "Project'80, Rural Michigan Now and in 1980". Thepicture is of the cover page of this report.
The project was designed to seek an-swers to three important questions: (1)What will rural Michigan be like in 1980, inthe natural course of events? (2) What dorural people and others concerned want itto be like in 1980? and (3) What can bedone to capitalize on the opportunities,avoid impendi'ng problems, or change thenatural course of events and redirect Michi-gan rural economy toward these goals? Dr.John Ferris of the Agricultural EconomicsDepartment was the project director.
1971 - Research Report 129, January 191971,~nversion of Farm Assets for Re-tirement Purposes" was by W. F. Lee and J.R. Brake. This bulletin was a first on thisparticular subject and is indicative of in-creasing numbers of farmers considering re-tirement. The bulletin reports that about17 percent of the farm operators in 1964were over 64 years of age. The bulletinincludes information re: estate transferprograms, selecting investment alternativesand estimating retirement income.
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r-;'··~-:':;;-\/ • ........, 1971 :N£
RESEARCHREPORTmlM THf MlOlfOA); .,."'! UMlYIdtYAOlfCUlT\llAl !X\'fI1M1NT "'''!'lON fAIl
Conversion of Farm Assets for Retirement Purposes
l~tROI)UC't10N
D~~A';~~::.a~aQf~;:!!'~~~~Mn~ (e'tQ.",.. fat.m.r itt tht- Uilltfid StitH Wf!.Tii:~.
.ted by pel:j(lM $S y.e.i\l'1 (If age Qr old!""., Appr:osi-m.o.tt'ly1.1,4$oltht Qe'ttttl-.:l#.fnope .•..•t1.JJt"Nfri'f:.fYWIt-
64 yem Cif Il~.· ~ :data :tOOlCktttthitt '" tar:t':t'•""'b<fol-' __ ,.dwlt~WprOO~of reUfmg !rum brmlng.
Aitvandng IAgt:< .nd the Itecmn~mg dtdlJlo inphyticl\l h('.atth ~'t;'fif'\l1Jnr malrifr it Ul1pr3li';t~1If1r .,1.oo}~poo.p~ttltWl,li:iujt7"ot'M ()jrRriag, 'l~ ~e-IaOf: tM prohkmt ()l OOJw1'rti~ tbt)n fu'M'i\ ~ t!)
~Q/~tfr~ttt \ucoroe1r.ndtnil.n.gmgfot ~iff!! ()f their' 4SJe\J to hotfr.s, Tht~pt~ may bA: ee-f('t"t(d to I.lI the dl1,J'b~l};t or wi.tbdt",walw:p c&wl"""~""i!"f'I'1h~,'
'l'OO-~e.(lf tblf rep'irt tsto ttUl'lroaJjf.(' i~ JhJ4.1"'SJof. ~~ 0.( elderly IannM and retiroo famlt'n"And «J n'I~1'ftlitt~ w"Mt'h-w1lt tmtl.hte~:t'farmers to itllffil tbdl finaooW, Il'nd ~'ltl rotb'fl.°u;Jt'.I)l g04b
nJ.:Tm£MF.NT M::E F~lIl\1 PEOm 1III'EBSPI!(,,"t't';:E
s.m.,yr.....d •••The ~pdw- in{pf"(J.ui.t1ao fOT lhff.til\»tt "\\'U~
l"iYudh'omb,lfetVle'w'f ~.fth-'llf~'lJiU.Df'll!1 ofelktlyfarm. p«ipJu Irotn Southr~Lcw.tt JriliddgM.. 'Tbe~PI~''"ft.w'WIMJ .d('8~ 11'$ f~ ,..n61t'ti~ {attn •(>:f5:w'hbwt]n:ag:eOOOl:1)Jder.Parttiltloei~"'1:tfpfrK.itftkd b\ tbl' '"-urwty oot ~w ..•.•bI) M'd left f~btg. bcfOle I\u,l~fng 'l'totitf.'mmi" flop' to \lIh. up It ll()'n.brm (I('O.I:p.,.tJ.t'ifi. were seJttded.
T('O t{Ao.'U&htt .• wu:e ~looted at random, ~ FOb.llbthty that II to.'Wrt:thip 'W'('iufd' he wl~ "..,.wt.-ig}Lt\..I(! .~\'I\g tfl 11'! t.otai ~Mm~ m t'MJ'Uf
f!(rm:f. u..t~ 61 t'C'!'n ~,{iitl1lwwr mpoode.(I\'$ fr.Oin'(!a.M tawudj\f! ~~ ubt~ frOl"tl wi l'9'nt-a-l..~• .ru<.<b-...'>1tlJoWl'J.lfup o.ropet"i.tsor.s. tlM ~ pe1~Qm:k~ to'be ("fnlllUar .••••lth th~ n"!fJdertb' '()i then ~ Idfo~y,thit nnl{Joti:I11. IlIlX:ediff~ •• otdd h'/)W\' J1f1n1'\.dtid 100 to'-~.s, Uowt'\"tf. d)l.':te \jI>'i;tt It 1';bMJ*:ldMlt' lUgh"CI'it"tall t~r.t(\·JlI)d It$ _mult ~ .&)le~~;.r.an,Q,hly C()ii).pl~t" q\~t](n"'tl.lUt~ WI!:tfI "C~.
't'bI!. &a"ml).iJng P"1'~tlftl w"'. d4"..dgut:'d t.o obt ht tn-tm-ri!'1lf'S.witb.1/,~Tita'fi\.~~tt"ctkifio.(~,ldetlyijj,fln· l~k !lit It~ble t'flIrt, 1"b<'tt: W¢I"fl \"''1).')('Iru'L",,- 9f p..~I(jW- btu. fJt1t. too local tlI!'I.n.taetf 'W/fef't:
more. tilul'.ty to pl')",rdc .(be nv,lPf!f." (ti .fi4'OP~.tUJ lW.mgjj) ~b.¢t~h.lp, 1'h'tU, t'~ tetuitJ may nOt fUa, .re-~ tlM- .NJ.'llA.tioo.\oJ. f~& .••••ho n1ld.rolnp~C'1y re-tIn"rltriH.nA\ct1"(!./«mlm..gi'llnt'l~w.tlQI)tJl(ttt
'A.,OII ••~, 1'~"~~I&\~~.IoIl"=:~::""~u~ .•~_~<1(~
:!="':rA~s:::::':!i. J'?'r;.:..*;l:... ..••.. lillk 0,*,,-.1
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EXTENSION
Extension activities in farm management at Michigan State started
April 1, 1912 with the appointment of M. J. Thompson as Field Agent
Northwestern Michigan. His major assignment was to help farmers to increase
their incomes through farm records and farm business analysis. Harvey
S. Smith, H. F. Williams, Eben Mumford and Charles P. Reed were also
appointed that same year and for much the same purpose but in different
areas of Michigan.
Dr. Mumford was appointed as organizer and leader of Farm Management Field
Studies and Demonstrations, later to be known as the County Agricultural
Extension Service and still later to be designated as the Cooperative Ex-
tension Service. Charles Reed was appointed as Supervisor, Farm Management
Field studies. Thus he became the first full-time leader in farm manage-
ment extension at Michigan State.
Extension activities in the macro aspects of agricultural economics
started November 1, 1915, with the appointment of James N. McBride as
State Market Director with headquarters at the Michigan Agricultural College
and under the direction of the M.A.C. governing board, the Board of
Agriculture, now (1972) the Board of Trustees of Michigan State Uni-
versity. Ralph H. Elsworth was appointed as McBride's assistant in
marketing May 1, 1916. The Elsworth Co-Op House at Michigan State was named
after him. Hale Tenant became Director of Agricultural Marketing at
Michigan State on May 1, 1918, in effect replacing McBride who resigned
Feb. 23, 1919. These three men were instrumental in organizing many farmer
cooperation marketing organizations,
Extension activities in both the farm management and marketing areas
continued on an "off and on" basis during the period 1915 to 1927. Reuben
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v. Gunn was the first man to be appointed Extension Specialist in agricultural
economics and assigned to the Department of Economics. Gunn was appointed
Jan. 1, 1927 and his major interests were in general agricultural economics
with particular reference to the agricultural outlook.
The first really "permanent, later day" assignment in farm management
was the appointment of Herbert A. Berg on Oct. 1, 1928 as extension spec-
ia1ist to the newly created Department of Farm Management on July 1, 1928.
Other and subsequent types of extension activities are presented on
the following pages of this section.*
*For personnel and dates involved in later extension activities see"Biographical Sketches of Personnel 1891-1967 at Michigan State in areasof Agricultural Economics and Farm Management", Part II of this Histor~ica1 Series, Ag. Econ. Misc. Series No. 1968-9.
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1910-19
1920-29
1930-39
1940-49
1950-59
1960-69
1970-79
Cooperative Extension Publications
Somewhat Typical ££ the Decade in Which Published*
Ext. Bul. 12 (1918) Suggestions to Boys Who Wish to Prepare for Farm Work
Ext. Bul. 46 (1926) Potato Price Trends
Mimeo FM 26 (1930) Annual Farm Business Analysis Report, Area 5Ext. Bul. 122 (1932) Agricultural Outlook for MichiganExt. Bul. 107 (1930) Some Economic Aspects of the Bean Situation
Ext. Bul. 257 (1944) Farmers and the Income TaxFolder F-73 (1944) 20,000 Women Needed on Michigan FarmsExt. Bul. 267 (1945) Do I Want to Farm?Ext. Folder F-90 (1946) How to Pick Pickles Faster (Spanish Edition)Bul. 278 (1946) Part-time Farming in MlchiganFolder F-168 (1952) Father-Son Farm Operation Agreements
Ag Econ Open Meeting Series 8 (1954) Who Sets Farm PricesAg Econ Open Meeting Series 13 (1954) Capitalism-Socialism-Communism,
A Comparison of Economic SystemsExt. Bul. 371 (1959) Should We Incorporate the Farm Business
Ag Econ Mimeo (1960) Farming Today -- What it Costs, How it Pays,Area 5, 1959
Ext. Bul. 378 (1963) Farm Rental AgreementsExt. Bul. 382 (1963) Drain Law for Michigan Landowners
Ext. Bul. 628 (1970) Farm Transfers and Estate Settlements -- Taxes andLegal Costs
Ext. Bul. 685 (1970) Business Analysis for Dairy FarmsTel-FarmAg Econ Report 175 (1970) Business Analysis Summary Dairy 1969
* For a complete list of Farm Management and Agricultural Economics Mimeographpublications see Ag Econ Mimeo 990 Dec. 1964, "Bibliography of Farm Managementand Agricultural Economics Mimeograph, 1927-64" by E. B. Hill and MarthaMarshall.
A card index of all Agricultural Economics publications from 1898 through 1964has also been prepared by E. B. Hill and is in Agricultural Economics ReferenceRoom.
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M, S. c. aUl.LEitN ROOr>1 FiLE CO~Y FOR LOAN ONt.""
I Cooperative Extension Service
r---,·,----·----- ..,-----'---·---- ~::::.:... '! MICHIGAN AGRtULT.li,',R,AL COLLE<:,::! EXTEN' .ON DtyrsoN , ,"-' -..i RJ, B l.[)WIN, ~8°' , .' I\ ~~~~~~~;~:~;~=~===~~~=~::~~,j'Ii ~----.j! SUGGESTIONS TO BOYS WHO WISH ••.• •I
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IIIII
TO PREPARE FOR FARM
WORK
ASHLEY M, BERRJDGE
Di1't!f:1D~ of Short C/)m·.fjf.~
"1 (~II upon the able bodied boys of the land eo turnto the tanns and make certain that 00 pains and no1(1b01-is la.cldng ill this great matter.'
-Prtsid",ItU,"ilson,
EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN
P1 tnted .'~~!:~~!:t:;~~~::t:~:~fl;:r~i~ ~~: ~~~~(\~.~:~~~~:~~;~~~agr~Ullur ••J
M!tblRa.n Agrkuhural Coll~.i1l!' !ltd U. $, Department r;.t Agrlr'.l)h,re C('f-(lpe-UUllg',
1918 - Extension Bulletin No. 12 "suggestions to Boys Who Wish to Preparefor F-;;;-Work" was the first formal extension bulletin in the farm managementarea at Michigan State. The author was Ashley M. Berridge, Director of ShortCourses.
It was a war time, World War I, type of publication and on the cover was aparagraph by President Woodrow Wilson; "I call upon the able bodied boys of theland to turn to the farms and make certain that no pain and no labor is lackingin the great matter." It was an appeal for increased food production to help winthe war.
In those days there were about 200,000 farms in Michigan versus about 85,000today (1971). Apparently they still needed more help on farms even in those days.
The bulletin contains many interesting illustrations and discussions theretoas follows: (1) forks and shovels, (2) care and handling of horses, includingcleaning out the stalls, .currying, leading, tying, bedding, harnessing, (3)hitching horses together, two-, three-, and four-horse teams, (4) hitching thehorse between thills, (5) hitching a two-horse team to a wagon, (6) unhitching thesame, (7) unharnessing, (8) parts of a plow, (9) parts of a one-horse cultivatorand (10) a final, greasing the wagon. "The wagon wheel burr always unscrews tothe left. This prevents the burr from running off when the wheel goes ahead.Remember the direction. It will save work."
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E.•teh.ion Bun.tiD. No. 46
POT A TO PRICE TRENDS(1910·1925)
MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGEOf Agriculture and AI'PUed Science
EXTENSION DIVISION
R. J. BALDWIN, Dir •• ,.'
1926 - Extension Bulletin No. 46 "Potato Price Trends,19l0-zsrr-by Dr. John T. Horner of the Economics Department,16 pp. was printed in March 1926. Dr. Horner was appointedin June 1921 and had marketing of farm products as his majorinterest. Horner's first bulletin was Exp~ Sta. Spec. Bul.137, Feb. 1925, 32 p. "Marketing Michigan Potatoes".
This bulletin was the first in the area of farm productprices at Michigan State. It included a graph showing thevariation in production and in the price of potatoes by yearsfrom 1869 to 1924.
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1929 - The first meeting in Michigan to get farmers started onthe ~arm Accounting and Farm Business Analysis extension project. Meeting washeld in the Genesee County Court House. Herbert A. Berg, ~nitiator of the projectstanding left rear; and James R. Campbell, County Agricultural Agent, standingright rear. The year 1971 marks the 42nd year of this project which is now organ-ized as the Tel-Farm electronic farm records program.
~ - Dr. Karl T. Wright, full-time research in farm management, doing~ bitof extension work in returning Keith Sowerbyts farm business analysis report, KentCounty (type of report shown inthe 1929 picture on page74 ). All Farm ManagementDepartment staff members usuallyspent two to four weeks duringthe summer helping the extensionstaff return farm business analy-sis reports. Following this pro-cedure, all staff members keptin close touch with farmers andfarming and were thus better pre-pared for effective teaching andresearch in farm management.
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1942 - Elton B. Hill "re-turning" the farm business anal-ysis record to farm account co-operator, Harold Woodworth ofPotterville, Eaton County, Mich-igan in July 1942. For manyyears the Farm Busines AnalysisReport "returned" to'cooperatorscontained a column in which theanalysis figures for the far-mer's farm operations were writ-ten in for comparison with thehigh. and .low income farm opera-tors. Picture is also illus-tration of the transition periodfrom horse to tractor power.
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.!.2.& - Following World War II, many returningveterans and unhappy city dwellers thought theopen country was the place to realize their dreamsof getting away from it all and raising their ownfood. They were encouraged in this by some u.S.Dept. of Agriculture publications and articles inthe media of the day. Many inquiries on the sub-ject were rece~ved by Michigan State University.
To answer such inquiries and to point outsome of the pros and cons of getting establishedin the farm business, the Farm Management Depart-ment made a study of the idea and prepared Ext.Bul. 267, "Do I Want to Farm", as a guide to ser-vicemen, industrial workers and others consider-ing farming as a vocation. Author was Clyde O.May and date of publication was Feb. 1945.
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IIIEXTENSION 8ULLETIN /.67
IfE8RUARY I •• '
Do I WANT TO FARM?•
A Guide for Ser"ice Men, Industrial Work."..and Othen Con .•wering Farming .u a Vocation
MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE
EXTENSION SERVICE
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Highlights and Shadows ~ Silverwood ~
l21L - Howard L. Horn of Pigeon, Huron County, a FarmManagement Department farm accountant cooperator, is proudof his family and his farm. His 1937 Farm Account Book wasembellished by pictures of his home, his children, his crops,his livestock, his crop rotation, and his "night watchman",the resident owl.
Picture also is a bit of his farming philosophy "AnotherWay to Figure It" Cooperation, Rotation, Fluctuation andVexation. Also included, lower left, is a copy of a letterto the MSU Cooperative Extension Service thanking them fortheir fine spirit of cooperation extended to him during thepast season. Lower center is a typed quotation from Hesiod,-720 B.C.
Pictures illustrate a rather typical "general') farmsetup 35 years ago when horse power was still common andmany farmers had horses, cattle, hogs, and chickens. Mr.Horn also had a hive of bees.
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1950 - John C. Doneth,in charg; of farm manage-ment extension at MichiganState making plans withfarm account cooperators,Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crandall,at their farm near BattleCreek, Michigan for the1950 State Farm ManagementTour. Extensive prelimin-ary arrangements withcounty cooperative extenrsion personnel, farmers,and other local personshave been essential for asuccessful State Farm Man-agement Tour.
The Crandall farm, afine father and son operatinn, was visited be-cause of the excellent soil management programon rolling land and because of their efficientdairy and sw~ne enterpris~s.
1951 - Two concernedfarm ~gement staff mem-bers Everett M. Elwood andJohn C. Doneth (left toright) checking on the 1951Farmers Income Tax Bookletand the 1951 Michigan StateUniversity Farm Accountbook.
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1949 - The first State.Farm ~gement Tour spon~sored by ~he Farm ManagementDepartment. Picture showsthe visit to the PridgeonFarm (father and son, Glennand Dean) near Montgomery,Branch County, Michigan.Gordon Schlubatis, BranchCounty Agricultural Agent,was the interviewer. EugeneCarter of the Farm Manage-ment Department was incharge of the stop.
The Pridgeon farm wasvisited because of ,itsbeingan excellent father and sonfarm-partnership. Dean is
the,third generation on the Pridgeon farm. ThePridgeons at that time had 25 Guernsey cows, 20brood sows, 800 hens, owned 360 acres and rentedaddition&l land. The Pridgeons have been farmaccount cooperators for many years.
1211 - One of the three farm visits in the 1953Sta·teFarm Management Tour was to the farm of HenryHetzner and Sons of Rt. 4 Saginaw in Saginaw County.The Hetzners, a fine part-neT~hip· arrangement, werelong-time farm account coop-erators and operated a suc-cessful dairy and cash cropprogram including sugarbeets and white field beans.
The Hetzners operated a150 acre farm, had 30 Guern-sey cows, 18 head of youngcattle, 1 sow, 8 pigs andabout 150 hens. The opera-tion was noted for high cropyields and high productionfrom Uvestock.
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1953- John C. Donethin ac~ at the John andFred Sahr farm near Reesein Saginaw County. Thatwas the day that John Don~eth learned something aboutthe poultry business •.John, on the platform inte~viewing the Sahr brothersnoted three breeds and co-lors of chickens in theyard: (1) White Leghorns,(2) Black Minoras and (3)Rhode Island Reds. "Whythe three col~rs?~, askedJohn. Mr. Sahr's promptreply indicated John'squestion was a rather fool-ish one, stated that wecull our hens every three
years and by buying a different color o.fchLcks each year we know when the"time is up" at the end of the third year for each batch of hens.
The Sahr brothers operated 320 acres of land and were excellent cash cropfarmers, obtaining high yields from 125 acres of wheat, 70 of white field beans,47 of sugar beets and 15 acres of sweet corn. They had invested $16,000 in tiledrains since 1940. Their livestock consisted of 4 dairy cows and some hens.The Sahr brothers have been farm account cooperators for many years.
1953 - WarnerLaw, ~land,Saginaw County,State Farm Man-agement Tour,getting attentionfrom some of hisfeeder steers.
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1954 - State Farm Man-ageme~ours are scheduledwith farmers cooperating withthe Department and its exten-sion project in farm accoun-ting and farm business analy-sis. This picture on an im-provised platform, shows JamesNielson, extension specialistin farm management, introdu-cing and interviewing Mr. andMrs. Ward Bailey near thefront porch of their finefarm home near Schoolcraftin Kalamazoo County.
The farm operated by anexcellent father and son part-nership of Ward and ArthurBailey was noted for its di-
versity and high production. At that time theBailey's operated 320 acres of land, had 46 dairycows, 45 head of young stock, 23 sows, 185 pigs, 2500chicks and 1200-1500 hens. Formerly, potatoes werethe major enterprise on the Bailey farm.
1954 - Niles Hagelshaw ofRt. l~imax, Kalamazoo County,was one of the farm stops onthe 1954 State Farm ManagementTour. View shows the home andfarm buildings of the Hagel-shaw farm as well as of thepeople gathered for the program.Mr. Hagelshaw at that timeowned and operated 824 acres ofland, had 38 dairy cows, 25beef cows, 90 ewes, 400 hens,40 feeder pigs and 16 beefcalves. Niles has been a farmaccount cooperator for manyyears.
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Em,.,w" Bulletin 371 December 1959
should we
INCORPORATEthe farm business
Micltig,all Stale tlnim~rsil'Y • Coope(al.i~ E:xtt'IUion Service • East Lansing
1959 - Extension Bulletin 3]1~Decem~1959, "Should We Incorpor .....ate the Farm Business", by E. B.Hill, was the first of its kind atMichigan State. The bulletin dis-cussion included the pros and consof incorporating the farm businessin Michigan. It was a reflectionof a growing interest in alterna.....tive methods of organization inthis day of larger farms and largerfarm businesses from the stand-point of (1) efficient operation ofthe farm business and (2) continuityof the farm business from one gen-eration to the next.
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rOOPRR.\nr& f!XTENSJO~~SERVu"'E • MICHUa,N ~TATt: trNl\'t:'itSO'):
1970 - There have been four bulle-tins ~he intra-family farm transferarea at Michigan State. The latest onein 1970 --"Farm Transfers and EstateSettlements - Taxes and Legal Costs"--Michigan Extension Service Bulletin628 by E. B. Hill. This publicationwas a revision of Mich. Exp. Sta. Bul.424, "Impacts 9f Taxes and Legal Costson Farm Transfers and Estate Settle-men ts"; 1959.
All in all the Agricultural Econ-omics staff at Michigan State assistedby the field staff of the CooperativeExtension Service have rendered over 20years (1949-71) of valuable informationservice to farm families in Michiganregarding intra-family farm transfersand estate settlements.
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A FARM MANAGEMENT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
1965 - Professor John C.Doneth, project leader in farmmanagement extension, and ArleneKing, statistical supervisor,checking tabulations from Tel-Farm electronic data processingof farm records.
1963 - Cover of the fol-der a~ncing the availabil-ity in 1964 to Michigan far-mers of Tel-Farm "Today'sElectronic Farm Records forManagement". This projectwas initiated by the farmmanagement personnel of theAgricultural Economics De-partment in 1964. The numberof farmers cooperating inthis project has ranged from1300 to 1500 a year sin~e1963. The 1969 picture onpage 74 illustratesthe type of annual report re-sulting from the proiect.The former farm ac-
counting and business analysis project initia-ted in 1929 was terminated at the end of 1963.
Department of ~ rc-ksCOOPElATM fXtINSfON SIIVICfMICHIGAN STAtE UHfYElSrTY
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THE KELLOGGFARMERSSTUDYP·ROGRAM
IIIltHIGAff STArt UNIY£RSm CMl'fAAT1V£ mfflSlil!;S£RIIIC£OEPARTMENT Of ilGlilCllt TUftE tCOl(OMtCS
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l2..§.i - The Kellogg farmers Study Program was initi-ated in the fall of 1965 by the Michigan State Univer-sity Extension Service. Financing this study-travel ex-perience for selected young Michigan farmers was sharedby the W. K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek (througha five-year grant), the Michigan State University, andby the participants. The program has been a part of theDepartment of Agricultural Economics Public Policy Pro-ject. For Group V the participants' expen~e was about$1,400 which was judged to be about one-third of theprogram cost.
The Study Program had about 30 fellows in each groupand has scheduled five groups. The fifth and last groupterminated spring of 1972. A total of about 150 youngMichigan farmers have been involved in the program. Eachgroup was scheduled for a three-year program. Duringthe first two years each group spent about 30 daysduring each year in a study program.
Included in the first year was a week-long travel-ing seminar in Michigan and a two-week traveling seminarto various parts of the United States. In the third yearparticipants took part in an International Traveling Sem-inar.
The project initially designated as a leadership training program hadtwo main objectives: (1) To build a better understanding of the economic,pGlitical and social framework of our society, and (2) to use this frame-work to analyze the complex problems facing agriculture and rural communi-ties.
The Kellogg Farmers Study Program scheduled to terminate in summer of1972 is to be replaced by a New Horizons Program sponsored by the MichiganState University Cooperative Extension Program and people in local communi-ties. The geographic unit to be involved is usually three counties. Theprogram is to last over a period of three years with 1 day of study anddiscussion during a 10-weekperiod. About 35 persons are expected to par-ticipate in each group. The group to consist of individuals from all areasof interest in the area.
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1967 - Under cover atthe G-run- Meadows Farm atElsie in Clinton County.The 1967 State Farm Man-agement Tour.
llil- Attendance wasgood at this stop of theState Farm Management Tourat the Simmons' farm (Jackand Bill) near NorthBranch in Lapeer County.There were approximately1,100 cars in the parkingarea and about 2,200 per-sons in attendance. TheSimmons operated a farm ofabout 500 acres with 447acres tillable.
The Simmons' farm wasof particular interest be-cause it was in the processof expanding the steerfeeding operations fromthe present 180 head to
about 450 head. In addition, they raisedabout 110 litters of pigs and sold about800 hogs. The Simmons have been farm ac-count cooperators with the CooperativeExtension Service for many years.
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1929 - Picture of the front cover ofthe "Annual Farm Business Report for 1929.Area 5 - General Farming." This was thereport for the first year of the FarmManagement Department's extension ser-vice project in farm accounting and farmbusiness analysis. Similar reports wereprepared for the other type-of-farmingareas in Michigan. This was a mimeo-graph job on 8 1/2 x 11 mimeo paper.
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MIatIGAII S'lATE OOLLIGIof ",rtculture cui Appliad Sdance-IlNITEll StATES IIUAIITSMT 0' ACalCULTIIIZ
a",r• .au 01 Aarlcalt.ural Ico.o.1caCooparaUq
oIIIIIUAL PAIUI IIUSIIIISS 1IP0II1'for 1929
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1969 - Picture of the front cover of"Busi;;; Analysis Sunnnary for-Special-ized Southern (Michigan) Dairy Farms,1969". This report was the 41st con-secutive year of the preparation and pub-lication of the farm business analysisr~ports. This is a Tel-Farm report andthe cover has been embellished by a bitof art work. Note also that the contentof the reports have been changed from anarea type-of-farming basis to a special-ized type-of-farming basis. This re-flects the change in Michigan agricultureover that 40-year period. The report wasan offset prin~ing job instead of themimeo job of 1929.
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1967 - Hosts to theState Farm Management Tourat the Green Meadows Farmnear Elsie, Clinton Countywere Merle, Ve1mar andDuane Green (father andsons). The Green's excel-lent farm partnership op-erated one of the largestdairy herds in Michiganwith about 1000 registeredHolstein cows on 2,700acres of farm land.
Picture shows theGreens and one of theirchoice cows. GovernorWilliam G. Milliken wasthe featured speaker ofthe day. The farm isnoted for its size, num-ber of registered Holsteincows and high productivity
1954 - Lawrence L. Boger,Chai~of the Department ofAgricultural Economics, talk-ing with the speaker of the dayDon Paar1berg, at the 1954State Farm Management Tour inKalamazoo County. Speakers ofnational prominence are sched-uled for such events. Dr.Paar1berg has been on the Ag-ricultural Economics staff atPurdue University; also Assis-tant Secretary of the U.S. De-partment of Agriculture;Special Assistant to the Pres-ident of the United States;and is currently the Directorof the Division of AgriculturalEconomics in the U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture, WashingtonD.C.
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12lQ--Michigan Farmers Traveled t2 California. This group of 100 far-mers and extension workers was conducted on a tour of some of the largerCalifornia dairy poultry farms on March 3-8, 1970. The group traveled bychartered jet to Modesto, by chartered bus through the fabulous San JoaquinValley and the intensive dairy and poultry area around Chino and Riverside.
The trip was arranged by Prof. L.R. Brown and the particpants were se-lected through the sponsorship of the dairy and poultry departments. Inaddition to visiting some 15 farms, the group visited a hay cooperative; afeedlot, a dairy cow auction, a calf raiser, the Bank of America and a silagedealer. They had a chance to visit with farm credit personnel, farm con-struction contractors, veterinarians, extension specialists, nutritionists,feed processors, artificial breeders and agricultural leaders.
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FARMERS 1 WEEKS
Farmers' Weeks at Michigan State were initiated in 1914.Before that date, however, County Institutes held their Round-UpFarmers Institute at Michigan State. The main meetings were heldin the large room on the 4th floor of Ag Hall.
The Farm Management and Economics Departments initiated theirdepartment programs about 1929. It did not take a very large roomto seat the audiences in those days. Fifty to 75 persons inattendance was a large crowd, The attendance at these meetings,however, soon picked up and larger and larger rooms in Ag Halland in Home Economics Building were needed "to seat those in at-'tendance. In later years, meetings have bee~held in the audi-toriums in the Engineering Building and in Kellogg Center.
One of the early features of Michigan State's Farmers' Weekwas the Farm Management Banquet. The initial start was a noonluncheon meeting listed in the 1930 Farmers' Week Program andheld on the 3rd floor of the Michigan State Union Building. Aftertwo or three years of the noon luncheon types of meetings, theevening Farm Management Banquet was scheduled.
The early Farm ManagementM.S.U. Union Memorial Building
•Farm Management Banquet
Big Ten and Centennial Rooms, Kellogg Center
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Agricultural Economics
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
March 23, 1972
Banquets were held on the 2nd floorand attended by about 50-75 per-
sons. These were rather informalaffairs attended and programmed byfarm account cooperators and wives.The next recorded banquet was heldin 1941 in the Masonic Temple din-ing room, East Lansing. The nextone was held in the basement din-ing room of the East Lansing PeoplesChurch. Then we moved to the Quon-set Village Cafeteria. From theQuonset Village Cafeteria the eventwas moved to the M.S.U. MemorialUnion Ballroom for the years 1950and 1951.
In 1952, the Farm ManagementBanquet was held in the Big-TenRoom of Kellogg Center where it sincehas been qeld each succeeding year.Attendance records were broken in1972 with 850 persons in attendanceand with former President John A.Hannah as the speaker of the even-ing.
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1937 - The 1937 FarmManag~t Department'sexhibit featured the pyramidshowing seven farm successfactors, namely: (1) keeprecords, (2) market effec-tively, (3) high livestockproduction, (4) keep enoughlivestock, (5) obtain highyields, (6) grow high valuecrops and the basic factor(7) improve and maintainsoil productivity. Eventhough presented about 35years ago, the factors lis-ted will apply to success-ful farm operations today.
~- The 1938 Farm Management Department exhibit featured the economic as-pects of Michigan farmflocks. The 276 farms av-eraged 232 hens per flockand 157 eggs sold per hen.
Egg production is on amuch different basis today.Fewer farms keep hens. Thepoultry business has becomehighly specialized. Re-search and improved manage-ment have combined togreatly increase efficiencyand production per hen.Twenty-one years later, the1970 Tel-Farm Business An-alysis Summary for sixMichigan poultry farms re-ported an average of 12,413hens per~farm and 234 eggssold per hen.
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SUMMER FARMERS' DAY - 1939
~ - All .theworld loves ~ parade. In 20s and 30s Michigan State Univer-sity held Summer Farmers' Day as well as the Winter Farmers' Week. One of thefeatures of the Summer Farmers' Day was a parade around a portion of the campuswhich is now called the East Circle Drive. The parade was scheduled as a part ofthe afternoon speaking program. The speaking program was held out-of-doors inthe area just south of the MSU Union Memorial Building. The parade route took itbetween the speaker's rostrum and the assembled visitors.
Top photo taken in front of the Morrill Hall (formerly, pre-1938, known asthe Womans' Building) was the Farm Management Department float which featured (1)Training at Michigan State College, (2) Father and Son Farm Partnerships, and (3)the MSC Farm Account Book which led to greater farm incomes.
Lower photo pictured the Animal Husbandry Department float which featuredlivestock for better farming. (1) Livestock utilized roughage pasture and grain.(2) Hogs were said to still be the "mortgage lifter" and (3) Prosperity followsthe Golden Hoof. In the '30s farmers really had the mortgages to lift and theywere usually big ones in proportion to the value of the farm. The floats wereon horse-drawn wagons.
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1941 - Program cover for the 1941Farme~Week Farm Management Program.Farm Management Farmers' Week banquetswere initiated in 1934 and have beenone of the outstanding events of Michi-gan State's Farmers' Week for nearly40 years. At this event Michigan far-mers who had cooperated with MichiganState Farm Management Department for10 years were recognized. At the pre-sent day banquets recognition is givento 25-year cooperators, Master Farmersand to the top ten farmers in variousphases of the farm business such ast~tal production per man, labor ef-ficiency, hogs, cattle feeding, sheep,dairy cows, hens and cash crops.
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1939 - The Farmers'Week Eihibit of the FarmManagement Department fea-tured the Michigan Farm Ac-count Book as a means offinding the best "combina-tion" of farm business en-terprises to help assure fu-ture financial security ofthe farmer and his family.
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1950 - Farmers' WeekFarm ~gement Banquet inthe Michigan State UnionBallroom. In the centerforeground are Mr. and Mrs.Clark L. Brody. Mr. Brody,Executive Secretary andGeneral Manager of theMichigan Farm Bureau 1921-52, was then chairman ofthe State Board of Agricul-ture (currently calledBoard of Trustees), Michi-gan State University.
~ - Professor ArthurMauch, crystal ball gazer ofthe M.S.U. Economics Department,foreseeing the agriculturaloutlook for Michigan farmers for1946. Picture taken during Ag-ricultural Economics Depart-ment program at 1946 Farmers'Week.
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FARMERS' WEEK
1956 - Farmers' Weekprogra~ave been an impor-tant feature of the Depart-ment's activities ever since1930, over 40 years ago.For about 20 years, 1930 to1949, the Departments ofFarm Management and Economicshad their own programs andclientele. Since the mergerof the agricultural econom-ics area of economics withfarm management in 1949,there has been one combinedprogram. Picture shows theAg Econ Committee preparingfor the 1956 Farmers' Weekat Michigan State University.From left to right: HenryLarzelere; James Shaffer;John C. Doneth, committeechairman; Richard G. Wheeler;and Carl Eicher.
1963 "OLD TIMERS" ATTEND,F~S' WEEK LUNCHEON--These people remember thedays before Farmers' Week.They were among the guestsof the "30-Year Club" at the48th annual ~rogram thisyear , Front--Ninety-yearold Charles F. Monroe ofWebberville attended a far-mers' institute in 1905, 11years before the first off-icial week began in 1916.He established an attendancerecord of 39 consecutiveyears. Mrs. Clara Schray,Mason, first attended an institute in 1915. Clarence Diehl, Dansville had beencoming since the early 1920s. Rear--Herbert Vasold, Freeland, attended theinstitute in 1911 when Agricult~ Hall, a new b~ilding then housed the entireprogram on the top floor auditorium. Ralph W. Tenney, former director of MSU'sshort course program was chairman of Farmers' Week for 35 years 1924-59. Hefirst came to the farm event in 1911. Keats Vining, retired county extensionagent in Kent County, attended his first institute in 1910.
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SPECIAL SERVICES, HONORS AND AWARDS
The history of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State
University would not be complete without the recognition of
the many special services, honors, and awards given to or held
by members of the staff.
A listing of such items and persons, however, is fraught
with danger because of (1) overlooking or not being aware of
such special services, honors, and awards! (2) the natural
modesty of some staff members in reporting such items, and
(3) the problem of deciding which of the many special services,
honors and awards of staff members to include and whic~to
omit because of spac~ limitations. An attempt has been made
to list the major ones.
In general, bibliographical items have been omitted
because of being too voluminous for this type of report. The
indulgence and pardon of staff members are asked for in case
of any serious omissions.
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SPECIAL ?ERVICES, HONORS AND AWARDS
Armstrong, David ~ - OutstandingTeacher Award, Michigan State, Collegeof Agriculture, 1970.
Boger, Lawrence ~ - Vice-President,American Farm Economic Association,1960-61. Chairman, Dept. of Agricul-tural Economics, 1954-68. Dean of Ag-riculture, Michigan State, 1969 - •
Berg, Herbert ~ - The U.s. Dept. ofAgriculture Superior Service Award,1958. Land Use Planning, State Lead-er, 1937-44. Asst. Director Coopera-tive Extension Service, 1944-65.
Bonnen, James T. - American Agricul-tural EconomicS-Association, Ph.D.Thesis Award 1957, and Best JournalArticle Award 1966. Member, Presi-dent's National Advisory Commission onRural Poverty, 1966-67. Senior StaffEconomist, Council of Economic Ad-visors, 1963-65. Member President'sTask Force on Agriculture, 1964.
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·SPECIAL SERVICES, .HONORS AND AWARDS
Brake, John R. - National ScienceFoundation Fellow, 1957-58. BrookingsInstitute Guest Scholar, 1967-68.Visiting Research Professor, Universityof Guelph Canada, summer 1970.
Cowden, Thomas ~ - Chairman, Dept. ofAgricultural Economics, 1949-53. Dean,College of Agricultural and NationalScience, 1954-68. President, AmericanFarm Economics Association 1953-54.Member of governmental and other na-tional committees for economic devel-opment and agricultural policy. Asst.Secretary of Agriculture, U.S.D.A.,1969 to - •
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Hardin, Clifford M. - Director, Michi-gan Agr. Exp. Sta:: 1949-53. Dean ofAgriculture, Michigan State, 1953-54.Chancellor, Univ. of Nebraska, 1954-68. Secretary of Agriculture, UnitedStates, 1969-1972.
Hathaway, Dale ~ - Senior staff mem-ber, Council of Economic Advisors, Ex-ecutive Office of the President, Wash-ington, D.C. 1955-56. Chairman, Com-mittee on the Future of the University,Michigan State, 1959. Vice-President1962-63 and President 1969-70 of theAmerican Agricultural Economics Asso-ciation. Alumni Distinguished Teach-ing Award, Michigan State 1964. Chair-man, Search and Selection Committee forM.S.U~ President 1968-69. Chairman,Depar of Agricultural Economics 1969-.
SPECIAL SERVICES, HONORS ~AWARDS
Hill, Elton ~ - Head of Department ofFarm Management, Michigan State 1928-48•. Acting Head, Dept. of AgriculturalEconomics, Univ. of Puerto Rico Agri-cultural Experiment Station 1938. Com-memorative Medal for Outstanding Ser-vice to American Agriculture, an Awardfrom the Federal Land Bank System.Chapter Advisor, Sigma Chi Fraternityat Michigan State, 1942 - •
Johnson, Glenn T. - Vice-President,American Farm Economics Assoc. 1961-62. Alumni Distinguished TeachingAward, Michigan State 1966. ElectedFellow of the American AgriculturalEconomics Assoc. 1970.
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Hoglund, ~ Raymond - Merit Award,American Grassland Connci1 Award, 1962.Fellow, American Association for theAdvancement of Science 1964. Z. CraneAward for Outstanding Research 1965.National Silo Association. EditorialBoard, American Dairy Science Associ-ation.
Manderscheid, Lester ~ - Chairman,Action Committee on Biological ScienceNeeds of Social Science Students inAgriculture and Natural Resources,1965-66.
SPECIAL SERVICE':;,HONORS AND AWARDS
Riley, Harold - Associate Editor,Journal of Farm Economics 1961-65.
Shaffer, James.!?!.- Consultant to theAdministrator of the Economic ResearchService, U.S.D.A., 1967. President,East Lansing School Board 1965-70.
Sturt, Daniel W. - Chairman, MichiganMigrant Labor Commission, 1965-69.Chairman, Michigan Agricultural LaborCommission, 1969-70. Director, RuralManpower Service, U.S.D.A. 1970 - •
Schmid, A. Allan - Editorial BoardLand Economics, 1969-71. EditorialBoard, Journal of Economic Issues1971 -. Visiti~g Scholar, Resourcesfor the Future 1964-65. J. S. McLeanMemorial Lecturer, Univ. of Guelph1969.
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SPECIAL SERVICES, HONORS AND AWARDS
Tinsley, ~~ - Best Masters ThesisAward, American Farm Economics Assoc.1960.
Wright, Karl ~ - Distinguished TeacherAward, College of Agriculture, MichiganState 1953. Farm House Fraternity Na-tional Vice-President 1950-54, NationalPresident 1954-56. Chapter Advisor,Farm House Fraternity, Michigan State1938-71. Director, Michigan State Uni-versity Advisory Group to Univ. of Ryu-kyus 1958-60. Three citations fromthe Univ. of Ryukyus on Okinawa, 1960,for excellence as an Advisor-Consul-tant. Agricultural Sector Analysisand Simulation Research, Korea, 1972.
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Witt, Lawrence W. - Governor, Insti-tute of Current-Wor1d Affairs 1950-68.Editor, Journal of Farm Economics1952-54. Vice-President 1955-56 andPresident 1966-67 of the American FarmEconomics Assoc. The Alumni Distin-guished Teaching Award, MichiganState 1970.
SPECIAL SERVICES, ;HONORS hNQ AWARDS
122i - ~ Management extension~ workers receiving ~ UnitedStates Department .Q..fAgriculture Award for Superior Service to Agricul-
~ In the picture from left to right, professors L. H. "Hi" Brown;Noel "Pat" Ralston, MSU Director of the Cooperative Extension Servicepresenting the award to the joint recipients; John C. Doneth; MYron P.Kelsey; Leonard R. Kyle, Everett M. Elwood and W. Allan Tinsley.Richard T. Hartwig, whose office was in Marquette, Michigan, was absentfrom the picture, thus the inset.
The award was in recognition of the initiation of the Tel-Farmelectronic farm record program offered to Michigan farmers on January 1,1964. One of the new features of the program was the inclusion of en-terprise records, labor records, inventory and depreciation schedule,along with the regular finance and production record for the entire farm.Obtaining and analyzing the additional records was made possible througha research study grant from the Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek,11;i.chigan•.
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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM INVOLVEMENTS*
of Agricultural Economic Staff MembersWhile at M.S.U., 1933-65
Members of the Agricultural Economic staff at Michigan State have been in-volved in international programs since 1933. In the earlier years involvementin such programs and indeed even foreign travel was an unusual and noteworthyevent.
Such activities are still significant events but are much more common thanin the earlier years. Foreign travel has become so commonplace as to scarcelyattract attention. The work of Michigan State Agricultural Economics Departmentstaff members in foreign involvements has received very favorable recognition.
The following listings indicate names of participants, purpose of the as-signments and period involved for the years 1933-65. Listings for the periodsince 1965 are left to a future historian.
Year Name and Purpose Mon ths
1933 Elton ~ Hill, Northern Europe and Russia, study tour 2
1934 Orion Ulrey and ~~ Berg, England, Northern Europe and 2Russia, study tour. Attended the Third International Con-ference of Agricultural Economists in Bad Eilsen, Germany.
1935 Orion Ulrey, Mexico study trip. 1
1937 Elton ~ Hill, Southern Europe, study trip. 2
1938 Orion Ulrey, travel and study in England, Scandanavia and 3Western Europe, studying cooperatives, farm organizations,folk schools and adult education.
1938-39 Elton ~ Hill, on leave, Acting Head, Department of Agricultural 13Economics, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Agricultural Experiment Station.
1947 Orion Ulrey, planned and conducted study trip for 20 foreign gradu- 4ate students -- southwest Michigan, Chicago, Wisconsin, U.P. andnorthern Michigan -- 1700 miles, 17 days, and 73 institutions andprograms •
1950 .Arthur~ Mauch, participated in a 10-country M.S.U. flying class- 1 1/2room to Europe, studied the Marshall Plan.
* Thanks and appreciation goes to Dr. Orion Ulrey for the preparation of thissection of this historical report.
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Year Name and Purpose Months
1950 World trade in agricultural products was discussed in extensionmeetings.
1951 Lawrence ~ Witt, agricultural consultant to FAO, Rome, Italy. 4
1951 Karl ~ Wright, agricultural economic advisor in England for the 12ECA (Economic Cooperation Administration) of the u.s. Government.
1952 Michigan State University was host to the International Conferenceof Agricultural Economists, support~d by the Kellogg Foundation.
1952
1954-55
1955
1956
Lawrence ~ Witt, member of the American Universities FieldStaff in Brazil.
4
Orion U1re» sabbatical leave and Fulbright Scholar, W. Pakistan~University of Peshawar, study stops in Near East, India, Burma,Thailand, Japan.
12
Glenn ~ Johnson, consultant to the Norwegian Government. 3
Lauren ~ Brown, Organization for European Economic Cooperationon farm work simplification and labor management. Sabbaticalleave and vacation.
8
1956 First specific mention of international involvements in AnnualReport. It says in part "Our efforts with training programs forforeign students were intensified and progress was made by ourrepresentative in the Institution's project in Palmira, Colombia."
1956 Department and Orion Ulrey, Short Course in Marketing Agric. Pro- 6ducts, 10 trainees from 8 countries, US/AID financed.
1957 Lawrence ~ Boger, Pakistan Academy investigation; M.S.U. and 1Ford Foundation.
1957 Department and Orion Ulrey, Agric. Econ. training course and trip~ 3 1/2Michigan, Chicago, Indiana, Tennessee and AAEA Conference in westNorth Carolina. 20 trainees from 9 countries. US/AID financed.
1957 Department and Orion Ulrey, Agric. Marketing Training Course --trips in Michigan, Chicago. 9 trainees from 6 countries, US/AIDfinanced.
1957-59
1958
Leonard Kyle, joined the Colombian project of M.S.U., advisor in 20Ag. Econ., College of Agr. Pa1mira}under ICA contract.
Department and Orion Ulrey, Agric. Econ. at M.S.U., 12 government 1/2officials from Yugoslavia
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Year Name and Purpose Months
1958-62 Orion Ulrey, University of Missouri team at Ranchi Agr. 48College, Bihar, India, US/AID contract. Attended theInternational Association of Agricultural Conference.
1958-60 Karl ~ Wright, headed M.S.U. Program at University of the 24Ryukyus, Okinawa. Also advisor to the U.S. Civil Adminis-tration. Financed by u.S. Army contract.
1958 Lawrence W. Witt, Director of Studies for International Programs 2at M.S.U.-and spent two months in asia at a Conference of Ag-ricultural Economists and for the Council on Economic andCultural Affairs (now the Agricultural Development Council).
1958 Raleigh Barlowe, consultant to the Puerto Rican Government. 1
1958 The Annual Report states "Presently, attempts are underway tostrengthen our research program in international trade programsand policies. Contacts have been made with representatives of theFord Foundation as well as with the FAS of the USDA."
1958 Raleigh Barlowe, advisor with Robert Nathan Associates, Colombia,South America.
1959 Glenn ~ Johnson, Simons Visiting Professor in Economics at Man-chester Univ., England. Financed by Univ. of Manchester, Rocke-feller Foundation and sabbatic leave grant M.S.U.
1959 .J> •.1. 480 research _funds obtained via IRM-l, International RMAfunds.
1959 Lawrence ~ Boger, consultation on the Columbian Project.
1959 Karl ~ Wright, participated in a 6-week M.S.U.-ICA survey,Taiwan.
1960-62 Garland Wood, leader of the Colombian Project under KelloggFoundation sponsorship.
1960 Arthur A. Mauch, en a foreign agricultural study tour in the FarEast concerned with the use of P.L. 480 funds and agriculturaltrade expansion prospects.
1960 The Department obtained for the first time, financial support fromthe Ford Foundation for international work for a five-year period.
1960 Glenn ~ Johnson, member of the International Cooperation Admin-istration evaluation team in Thailand. Financed by U.S. Dept. ofState.
1960 Ray Hoglund, study tour in Europe and the United States. Gavepaper at International Grass Land Conference, Reading, England.Financed by Hoglund plus an M.S.U. leave~of-absence.
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Name and !>urpose MonthsOrion Ulrey, extended his University of Missouri contract in 2India for a second two-year term.
Lawrence W. Witt, consultant on research and teaching, Colombia 2project, ~S:U:-and Kellogg grant.
Lawrence ~ Witt, Costa Rica, consultant, Inter-American Insti- 1tute of Agr. Science.Harold Riley, Colombian Project for two years in which graduate 24student Goering was involved.
1961 Five NDEA fellowships in internatIonal development were awardedfor the first time to the department.
1962-64 Richard G. Wheeler, joined the Colombian Project for three years 24to provide technical assistance in area of Agr. Economics in theFaculties of Agronomy in the Universities of Medellin and Palmiraand to conduct research under contract with the USDA.
1962-63 Carl Eicher, Nigeria for two months. 2
1962-63 Smith Greig, Brazil on a feasibility study of storing, handling, 5and processing grain and tuber crops.
1962-65 Glenn h Johnson, on partial leave from MSU, head of the Uni- 24versity of Nigeria, Economic Development Institute. Sponsoredby Michigan State University with AID contract.
1962 Lawrence W. Witt, in Colombia to complete manuscript on Effect 2of P.L. 480 on the Colombian Economy.
1962 Lawrence ~ Witt, Colombia; M.S.U.-Colomhia-USDA contract. 2
1962 ~ grant ~ .received from the Social Science Division of theRockefeller Foundation to evaluate "the impact that agriculturalpolicies in West~rn Europe are likely to have upon the quantityand quality of food products available for economic developmentuse in poor countries."
1962 Foreign Programs (The first separate mention of Foreign Programsin the Annual Report). Three Ph.D. candidates in AgriculturalEconomics were approved to do research in Colombia under a FordFoundation grant. One Ph.D. candidate to work in Nigeria undera Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs Grant.
1963
1963
Garland Wood, Latin America to investigate faculty exchangeprograms between M.S.U. and Univ. of Mexico, Central Americaand Colombia.
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Lawrence ~ Witt, in Spain, Greece, Italy, Turkey, and Belgiumfor the Economic Research Service of the USDA to consult withforeign groups conducting research under ERS contracts.
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Year Name and Purpose Months
1963 Lawrence ~~, delivered a paper in the Netherlands on 1The Common Market and u.s. Trade Problems for the ForeignAgr. Service of the U.S.D.A.
1963 Orion Ulrey, Mauritius for the Fiftieth Anniversary of Coopera- 2 1/2tives on the Island. Investigations also in Nairobi, Kenya,Pakistan, India, Israel, and Yugoslavia.
1964 Smith Greig, Colombia on another feasibility study. 6
1964 Dale Hathaway, Europe on problems of the Common Market, Rocke- 12feller Foundation grant.
1964-65 Glynn McBride, advisor to the Government of W. Pakistan at the 24Peshawar Academy for Rural Development. Ford Foundation project.
1964-65 Vern Sorenson, consultant to the Organization for Economic Co~ 24operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. u.s. State Dept. andOECD financed.
1964 Karl ~ Wright, in Taiwan with the M.S.U. project. An AIDsponsored project.
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1963-65 Carl Eicher, received a Council on Economic and Cultural AffairsGrant for work in Nigeria. Economic advisor, Economic Develop-ment Institute, Univ. of Nigeria.
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1964 Arrangements~e made for three Ph.D. candidates to work inNigeria.
1964 Harold Riley, Colombia for two weeks. 1/2
1964 Richard ~ Wheeler, one-year extension on assignment in Colombia. 12
1964 Lawrence ~ Witt, Turkey consulting with the University of Ankara 1for E.R.S.
1964 Lawrence ~ Witt, England and France, seminar on OECD changes. 1Ditchley Foundation.
1964 Garland Wood, Latin America. 2
19-64 Lawrence 1..:.. Boger, attended the International Association of 1Agricultural Economists meeting in Lyons, France and then traveledto East and West Pakistan to review M.S.U. Programs.
1964 Hathaway, Eicher, Johnson, Schmid and Sorenson, attended the Inter- 3national Association of Agricultural Economists meetings in Lyons,France.
1964 John C. Doneth, served as host and tour leader for a group ofMichigan agricultural leaders in Europe and the U.S.S.R.
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Year Name and l'urpose Months1964-65 Robert Stevens, advisor to the Pakistan Academy for Rural De-
velopment, Comilla, East Pakistan from October 1964 throughFebruary 1965.
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1965 Lauren ~ Brown, a 3-month tour in Europe. 3
1965 Carl Eicher, continued as Director of the Economic DevelopmentInstitute in Nigeria.
1965 Glenn L. Johnson, became Project Director of the Nigerian Con-sorti~ (CSNRD) Council for the Study of Nigerian Rural Develop-ment. AID funds.
1965 George Dike, became Assistant Project Director of the NigerianConsortium.
1965 Dale Hathaway and Vern Sorenson, received a USDA grant to studythe Impact of the European Common Market on U.S. Agriculture.
1965 Lawrence W. Witt, received an AID grant to outline a researchprogram on-Food for Peace.
1965 Lawrence W. Witt, U.A.R., Tunisia and Brazil to identify problemsof Food for Peace, AID project.
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1965 Three graduate students returned from Nigeria (Anschel, Miller, andWelsch).
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1938 - ~ Puerto ~ The staff of the Agricultural Economics of theAgricultural Experiment Station, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras. Fromleft to right, Elton B. Hill, Head of the Department, December 1938 to Decem-ber 1939, Daniel Haddock, Jose R. Noguera, Martin Velez, Sol L. Descartes,Hereberta Lopez, Jose Maisonet, Martin Hernandez, Jorge J. Serralles, Jr.,JUlio O. Morales, S. Diaz Pacheco, and R. Colon Torres. Professor Hill wason a year's leave of absence from Michigan State to be on the staff of theUniversity of Puerto Rico for the period December 1938 to January 1939.
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1960 - Michigan State Uni-versity Agricultural Economicspersonnel in cooperative aidprogram in Okinawa. From leftto right, Prof. Glenn L. Taggartthen Dean of MSU InternationalPrograms; Dr. Wang, Presidentof University of Taiwan; Prof.Karl T. Wright, project coor-dinator; Stanley P. Wronski,Prof. Institute InternationalStudent Education and -----The group constituted a surveyparty to study the educationalprogram in Okinawa.
1962 - Dr. Orion Ulrey onCrop-~eting Tour of collegefarms with students at RanchiAgricultural College, Ranchi,Bihar, India in Winter 1962.Ulrey served as social scien-tist-educator-consu1tant during1958-62 with the University ofMissouri team in Eastern India,under a US/TCM(AID) contract.Ulrey was discussing the poten-tial of soybeans in the area,drawing upon development in theU.S. and personal experienceswith the crop beginning in 1917.
1971 - !fLIndia. A portion of the group of 28 Kellogg Farmers StudyProgram on a world tour and in front of the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. RajkumarP. V. Gajpati Raju of Vizianagram, Madras, India. These farmers are a portionof Group Four of the program. The Kellogg Farmers Study Program was initiatedin 1965 and is a three-year study-travel experience for Michigan farmersinitiated by the Michigan State University Cooperative Extension Service. Itis partially financed by a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Theobjectives of the program are to build a better understanding of the economic,political, and social framework of our society, and to use this framework toanalyze the complex problems facing agriculture and rural communities.
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CONFERENCES
The Agricultural Economics Department of Michigan State Universityhas sponsored many county, state, national and international conferencesrelating to the general area of farm management and agricultural economics.The following is a list of the more notable state, national and inter-national conferences.
1940 - American Institute of Cooperation, 16th Summer Session.Session held at Michigan State College, July 8-12.
1952 - American Institute of Cooperation, 24th Summer Session.Held at Michigan State College, August 10-14.
1952 - International Conference of Agricultural Economists.Eighth Conference held at Michigan State College, August 15-22.
1955 - American Farm Economics Association, Annual.Meeting held at Michigan State College, August 1-3.
1961 - American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.Summer meeting held at Michigan State College, July 30-31 andAugust 1.
1964 - American Institute of Cooperation, 36th Summer Session.Held at Michigan State College, August 9-12.
1971 - American Institute of Cooperation, 43rd Summer Session.Held at Michigan State College, August
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..!2li - Michigan Country Bankers Association meeting. Pic-ture taken in front of Agricultural Hall and shows Dean and Di-rector of Agriculture, Robert S. Shaw, back row on the left;Assistant to the Dean and Director, Elton B. Hill, second fromthe right in front row; and Professor Judson Edwards, of theAnimal Husbandry Department, holding the Shorthorn heifer.
Meetings of the rural bankers of Michigan have continued,mostly annually, since 1924. The group was later designated asthe Michigan Rural Bankers and in late years has been meetingunder the auspices of the Agricultural Committee of the Michi-gan Bankers Association.
In early years, the meetings were always held at MichiganState University. In late years the group has been meeting else-where in the hope that a change in scenery would encourage a lar-ger attendance. In all meetings, however, the staff of the Agri-cultural Economics Department has continued to provide the majorportion of the program.
For some reason or other, however, subsequent groups haveapparently been "camera shy" and so no pictures are availablefor meetings since 1924.
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,CONFERENCES
~-~ 8th ,International ~onference of Agricultural Economistswas held at Michigan State College in August 1952. Picture taken in thefootball stadium is of the representatives present. Picture includes about290 of the 400 to 450 persons from(39 nations in attendence at the Conference.
Members were present from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Belgium, BritishWest Indies, China, Canada, Ceylon, Cyprus, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,Denmark, Erie, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain and North Ireland,India, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Malaya, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway,Peru, Rhodesia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa, Turkey, UnitedStates and Venezuela.
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1952 - LeonardK. El~st of Dar-tington Hall, Totnes,Devon, England ad-dressing the 1952 In-ternational Confer-ence of AgriculturalEconomists at Michi-gan State University.Translation 'booths onthe right for Deutsch,English, Spanish, andFrench from left toright. Jack R. Cur-rie, Secretary of theConference, and fromthe Economics Re-search Department,Dartington Hall,Totnes, Devon, Eng-land on platform at
the left. Seated in front row. Secondfrom the aisle on the right are pro-fessors Thomas K. Cowden, Dale Butz andGerald G. Quackenbush.
1952 - Conferees of the 1952 Conferenceof Ag~ltural Economists on a tour of theCharles J. Davis farm near Onondaga, InghamCounty, Michigan. Charley Davis, a long timefarm account cooperator with the AgriculturalEconomics Department, was a superior farmerand a community andstate leader in manyorganizations, in-cluding the churchas well as in agri-culture. In hislater years, he wasa state legislatorfrom his district.In 1952 Mr. Davisowned and operatedhis farm of 410acres, had 23 Hol-stein cows, 46 headof youngstock, 7Berkshire sows, andsold 87 hogs. Hisman equivalent was2.3 in 1952.
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1952 - There was entertainment at the 1952 International Conferenceof Ag~ltural Economists held at Michigan State. An MSU student groupportrays the square dance, a typical United States form of entertainment.
1952 - Leisure time at the 1952 International Conference of Agri-culturar-Economists on the campus at Michigan State University.
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!22i - The~ Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Cooperation washeld at Michigan State University August 9-12, 1964. On the program were about150 speakers representing top leadership of cooperatives. Appearing on the picturefrom the left are Skuli Rudford, Chairman AIC Board of Trustees; C. B. RatchfordDean, Extension Division, University of Missouri; Thomas K. Cowden, Dean, Collegeof Agriculture and former chairman of the Department of Economics, Michigan StateUniversity; Glenn Lake, AIC Vice-Chairman, and President Michigan Milk ProducersAssociation; and J. K. Stern, AIC President.
1964 - Closed circuit television was used at the 1964 AIC meeting at MichiganState~answer questions from the many youth sessions in various campus buildings.Answering the questions were, from left, Nels J. Ackerson, National President ofFuture Farmers of America; Joan Skinner, National 4-H Club representative; J. K.Stern, AIC President; and C. B. Ratchford Dean, Extension Division, Universityof Missouri.
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lHli STAFFThe number of staff members in agricultural economics increased
rather gradually during the 60-year period, starting with one in 1911,to 51.0 in the fall of 1971.
The number of staff members increased at a more rapid rate fol-lowing the merger of farm management and agricultural economics in thespring of 1949, and remained relatively constant at around 46 to 50during the 1961-71 period.
The average number of participating staff members by 10-y~arperiods were as follows:
1911-19 · 5.9 staff members1920-29 · · . . · · · · · · · 11.0 staff members1930-39 · · 17.5 staff members1940-49 · · · · · · · 21.3 staff members1950-59 · · . . . . · · · 38.6 staff members1960-69 · · · · · · · · 46.7 staff members1971 (fall) · · · · · 51.0 staff members
Agricultural Economics Section, Economics Department, 1911-49
The number of staff members in agricultural economics in the Econo-mics Department increased gradually during the l7-year period, from 1in 1911 to 10 in 1927; and remained relatively constant for the 20-year period between 1927-46 with from 8 to 12 persons. The number in-creased to 19 during 1946-49 when the department was headed by ProfessorHerman J. Wyngarden.
For the period 1911 to 1920, t~aching was the staff members' onlyresponsibility. Extension personnel operated directly under the Direc-tor of Extension. Research was initiated in 1920 with the appointmentof Dr. Wayne Newton. The extension program was started in 1927 withthe appointment of R. V. Gunn as extension specialist in agriculturaleconomics.
~ Management, 1912-49
Although there was no Farm Management Department in 1912, therewere 6 men in the area functioning as field men. These pioneers es-sentially were doing research-extension work in farm management. Theirmain job was to obtain records from farmers and to analyze their farmbusiness and financial records. The purposes of the studies were (1)to discover the profitability of farms, and (2) the reasons for thevariations in financial success among farms, and (3) to present the
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analysis of the farm financial records to cooperating and other farmersas a guide to more successful farm operations. The number of theseworkers ranged from 4 to 6 during the nine-year period, 1912-20.
The first Farm Management Department at Michigan State, ini~iatedin 1921, soon had a staff of 10 members. Department functions includedteaching, research and extension. Because of the difference of opinionbetween the head of the department and the ·President of Michigan State,the department was abolished in May of 1922.
For the five-year period, 1923-27, the work in farm manage~entwas only in teaching, and was done by one man, Fred Riddell, assignedto the office of the Dean of Agriculture.
A Farm Management Department was re-established in 1928 with Elton B.Hill as head. During the first year, there were three staff members,Herbert Berg, Karl Wright, and Elton Hill. The department was againassigned the responsibilities of teaching, research and extension.The number of staff members in the area continued to increase graduallyto maximum of 14 in 1948-49, the year of the merger of the Agricul-tural Economics section of the Economics Department in the College ofArts and Science with the Farm Management Department of the College ofAgriculture creating the Department of Agricultural Economics.
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AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS ~ -- ~ APPOINTEES.Aa Q.FIAL1 OUARTER 1971
Name Fields of Special InterestT-R-E-Al Degrees Receiv~d
Allen, John W. T1970 -
Armstrong, David L. A1968 -
Black, J. Roy1970 -
Boger, Lawrence L. A1948 -
Bonnen, James T. T1954 - R
Booth, James H. R1971 -
Brake, John R. T1959 - R
Brown, Lauren H. E1936
Cole, David L. T1965 - R
E
Connor, Larry J. T1966 - R
Cowden, Thomas K. A1949 - (on leave)
Dexter, Wilbur A.1968 -
BS 1953 CornellMS 1958 CornellPhD 1966 Cornell
BS 1957 Ohio StateMS 1958 Ohio StatePhD 1960 Ohio State
E BS 1963 Montana StatePhD
BS 1947 PurdueMA 1948 Michigan StatePhD 1950 Michigan State
AB 1948 Texas A & MMA 1950 Duke UniversityPhD 1964 Harvard
BS 1960 KansasMS 1962 KansasPh.D.BS 1955 Michigan StateMS 1956 Michigan StatePhD 1959 N. Carolina State
BS 1931 Michigan StateMS 1932 IllinoisPhD 1948 Purdue
BA 1962 MinnesotaMS 1966 WisconsinPhD 1966 Wisconsin
BS 1956 U. of NebraskaMS 1960 Oklahoma StatePhD 1964 Oklahoma State
BS 1930 Ohio StateMS 1931 Ohio StatePhD 1937 Cornell Univ.
E BS 1936 Michigan StateMS 1960 Michigan State
Food MarketingManagementAgri. Business
Farm ManagementAsst. Dean of AgricultureDir. Resident Instruction
Farm Management(thesis pending)
PricesInt'l Agr'l DevelopmentDean of Agriculture
Agricultural MarketingPublic Policy
Rural ManpowerResearch and Development(thesis pending)
Farm ManagementProduction EconomicsFarm Capital and Credit
Farm Management
Agricultural MarketingEconomic TheoryMarketing Management
Farm ManagementProduction EconomicsResource Economics
AdministrationMarketingAgricultural Policy
Farm ManagementTel-Farm and Farm Business
ImprovementlCode: T=Teaching R=Research E=Extension Service A=Administration
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John Allen David Armstrong Roy Black
Lawrence Boger James Bonnen James Booth
John Brake Lauren Brown David Cole
Larry Connor Thomas Cowden-111-
Wilbur Dexter
AGRICULTURAL "ECONOMICS _STAFF -- BOARD APPOINTEES.M ..Q¥ FALL QUARTER ...lll!..
Dike, George K.1960 -
Doneth, John C.1936 -
Eicher, Carl K.1961 -
Ferris, John N.1957 -
T BS 1941 N.D. Agr. Col.E MS 1946 Minnesota
PhD 1961 Michigan State
E BS 1933 Michigan StateMS 1939 Cornell
T BS 1952 Michigan StateR MS 1955 Michigan State
PhD 1961 Harvard
R BS 1951 PurdueE MS 1952 Cornell
PhD Michigan State
Int'l Trade and DevelopmentAgricultural MarketingPublic Policy
Project Leader, FarmManagement Extension
International AgriculturalTrade and Development
Outlook and Prices
Gustafson, Robert T BS 1941 Univ. of Michigan Econometrics1959 - R MA 1951 Univ. of Chicago
PhD 1958 Univ. of Chicago
Haley, William J. T BS 1964 Montana Econometrics1971 - R MS 1967 Montana
MES 1969 North CarolinaPhD 1971 North Carolina
Harrison, Kelly M. R1966 -
Harsh, Stephen B. E1968 -
Hartwig, Richard E1950 -
Hathaway, Dale E. A1948 -
Hayenga, Marvin L. T1965 - R
Hepp, Ralph E. T1965 - E
BS 1962 Texas Tech.MS 1963 Kansas StatePhD 1967 Michigan State
BS 1963 Univ. of NebraskaMS 1966 CornellPhD 1969 Cornell
BS 1941 Michigan StateMA 1957 Univ. of Chicago
BA 1947 Michigan StateMA 1948 Michigan StateDPA 1952 Harvard
BS 1962 IllinoisMS 1963 IllinoisPhD 1967 California
BS 1960 WisconsinMS 1962 WisconsinPhD 1965 Wisconsin
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Agricultural MarketingEconomic Development
Farm ManagementProduction EconomicsEconomic Theory
Departmental extensionrepresentative in UpperPeninsula
Department ChairmanPublic PolicyInt'l Trade and Policy
Agricultural Industry andMarket Behavior
Public Policy
Farm ManagementDairy ManagementSwine Mgt., Estate PlanningFinancial Management
George Dike John Doneth Carl Eicher
John Ferris Robert Gustafson William Haley
Kelly Harrison Stephen Harsh Richard Hartwig
Dale Hathaway Marvin Hayenga
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Ralph Hepp
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS STAFF -- ~ APPOINTEES~ Q¥ .f&l, OUARTER 1971
Hoglund, C. R.1948 -
House, Alvin)1963 -
Johnson, Glenn L.1953 -
Johnson, James B.1970 -
Kelsey, Myron P.1959 -
Kyle, Leonard R. E1954 -
Larzelere, Henry E. T1938 - R
E
Libby, Lawrence W. T1970 - R
E
Manderscheid, Lester T1956 - R
McBride, Glynn T1954 - R
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Moser, Collette H.1971 -
Ricks, Donald J.1964 -
R BS 1940 MinnesotaMS 1941 Minnesota
E BS 1951 Kansas StateMS 1959 Kansas StatePhD 1963 Iowa State
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BS 1940 IllinoisMS 1942 Michigan StatePhD 1949 Univ. of Chicago
R BS 1964 Oregon StateMS 1966 PurduePhD 1970 Oregon State
BS 1953 CornellMS 1956 CornellPhD 1959 Purdue
E
BS 1940 Michigan StateMS 1949 PurduePhD 1953 Purdue
BA 1933 Oberlin CollegeMS 1934 Ohio StatePhD 1939 Wisconsin
BS 1962 Univ. of MaineMS 1968 CornellPhD 1970 Cornell
BS 1951 Iowa StateMS 1952 Iowa StatePhD 1961 Stanford
BS 1942 ArkansasPhD 1954 Wisconsin
R BS 1962 Illinois StateMS 1966 WisconsinPhD 1971 Wisconsin
TRE
BS 1958 Michigan StateMS 1960 Michigan StatePhD 1965 Oregon
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Farm ManagementDairy Adjustment and Forage
Economics
Public Policy
Production Economics withapplication in FarmManagement, InternationalDevelopment Policy
Production EconomicsEconomics of Livestock Waste
Management
Farm ManagementFarm Credit & LeasingEstate Planning, Fruit and
Poultry Management
Farm Mgt., Cropping Systems,Cost Studies, CattleFeeding, Ext. Prog.Development
Egg and Poultry MarketingConsumer Preference PanelCooperatives and Co-op
Organization
Resource EconomicsPublic Administ~ationWater Resources
Price AnalysisEconometrics
Dairy MarketingAgricultural PolicyAgricultural Development
Rural ManpowerHuman Resources
Marketing: Fruit andVegetables
Price Analysis
C. R. Hoglund Alvin House Glenn Johnson
James Johnson Myron Kelsey Leonard Kyle
Henry Larzelere Lawrence Libby Lester Manderscheid
Glynn McBride Collette Moser-115-
Donald Ricks
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS STAFF -- BOARD APPOINTEESM .Q! 1:&L QUARTER..!.2l.!
Riley, Harold M.1953 -
R BS 1947 Kansas StateMS 1948 Kansas StatePhD 1954 Michigan State
Rossmiller, G. E. R BS -1956 Montana State1965 - MS 1962 Montana State
PhD 1965 Michigan State
Schmid, A. Allan T BS 1956 Nebraska1959 - R MS 1957 Wisconsin
PhD 1959 Wisconsin
Shaffer, James D. T BA 1947 Michigan State1949 - R PhD 1953 Michigan State
Shapley, Allen E. E1967 -
Sondag, Pauline A. R1968 -
Sorenson, Vernon T1963-- R
Stephenson, Judith R1971 -
Stevens, Robert D. T1964 - R
Sturt, Daniel W.1954 - (on leave)
Tinsley, W. A.1963 -
Updegraff, Gail1971 -
BS 1961 CornellMS 1962 CornellPhD 1967 Michigan State
BS 1949 Univ. of. IllinoisMLS 1967 Western Michigan
BA 1948 MinnesotaMS 1948 MinnesotaPhD 1953 MinnesotaBS 1963 Univ. of ChicagoMS 1968 Univ. of Chicago
BA 1950 PrincetonMS 1955 CornellPhD 1959 Cornell
Marketing and EconomicDevelopment
Assoc. Director of Insti-tute of InternationalAgriculture and Nutrition
Pub lic PolicyRural Manpower CenterDirector, Kellogg Farmers
Study Program
Land EconomicsPolitical EconomyPublic Program Budgeting
Systems
Market BehaviorInstitutIons and PolicyApplied Social ScienceConsumption Analysis
Farm Labor Management
Librarian
International Trade andPolicy Marketing
ProgranmingData Analysis
Economics of AgriculturalDevelopment
BS 1947 Virginia Poly tech. Director, Farm Labor andMS 1949 Univ. of Wisconsin Rural Manpower Adminis-PhD 1954 Univ. of Wisconsin tration, US Dept. of Labor
E BS 1956 IllinoisMS 1960 IllinoisPhD 1963 Minnesota
TR
BS 1965 Ohio StateMS 1967 Iowa StatePhD 1971 Univ. Calif.
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Farm Managemen!=Farm Records
Public Affairs
Harold Riley G. E. Rossmiller Allan Schmid
James Shaffer Allen Shapley Pauline Sondag
Vernon Sorenson Judith Stephenson Robert Stevens
Daniel Sturt w. A. Tinsley
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Gail Updegraff
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS ~ -- ~ APPOINTEES• ~ Qf !&L QUARTER.!2L!
Vincent, Warren H.1948 -
Witt, Lawrence W.1947 -
Wood, Garland P •.1957 -
Wright, Karl T.1929 -
Zehner, Mary D.1961 -
TR
BS 1947 MichiganMS 1949 Michigan StatePhD 1953 Iowa State
TR
BS 1937 WisconsinMS 1938 Iowa StatePhD 1941 Iowa State
R BS 1951 WisconsinMS 1953 WisconsinPhD 1958 Wisconsin
BS 1924 IllinoisMS 1929 IllinoisPhD 1940 Cornell
BS 1956 CornellMS 1961 Michigan State
R
E
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Farm ManagementProduction EconomicsComputer Science and
Systems Analysis
International Developmentand Trade
General AgriculturalEconomics
Pub lic PoLLcyDirector of Latin American
Studies Center
Farm ManagementAgricultural Development
Consumer MarketingInformation
Warren Vincent Lawrence Witt Garland Wood
Karl Wright Mary Zehner
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AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS.STAFF tCon't.}RETIREES ~ OF DECEMBER !2.ll
Everett L. Elwood1946-66, 20 years
ExtensionFarm Management
Elton B. Hill1920-64, 44 years
Teaching and ResearchFann Management
Arthur J. Howlanq1920-57, 37 years
Extension, AgriculturalCooperation & Marketing
Arthur Mauch1945-71, 26 years
ExtensionAgricultural Policy
George N. Motts1931-61, 30 years
Extension & TeachingHorticultural Marketing
Donald Stark1937-63, 26 years
Livestock MarketingExtension
Teaching &Research,Prices, Co-operationandMarketing
The names and biographical sketches of the 178persons who have done teaching, research andextension work in farm management and agricul-tural economics at Michigan State during theperiod 1891-1966 are presented in a SpecialReport, Agricultural Economics Misc. Series1968-9 (July 1968) Part II of this HistoricalSeries.
Orion Ulrey1928-72, 44 years
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