Biographical Sketches:  WILLIAM ARNON HENRY


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

page 773

UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT HEADS WILLIAM ARNON HENRY, Agr. B., Dean of the
College of Agriculture, was born at Norwalk, O., June 16, 1850. His
early life was spent on a farm in northwestern Ohio. He studied at the
Defiance, Ohio, high school, Holbrook normal school, and Ohio Wesleyan
University. Was principal of the New Haven, Indiana, high school,
1871. Principal of the Boulder, Colorado, high school, 1873-76.
Entered Cornell University in the fall of '76, and was graduated from
that Institution in 1880, with the degree of Bachelor of Agriculture.
In the summer of 1897 was with Professor C. V. Riley of the United
States Entomological Commission, Washington, D. C. During 1879 and
1880 was assistant in the botanical department at Cornell university.
Was appointed professor of botany and agriculture, University of
Wisconsin, beginning work in September, 1880. In 1882, was relieved of
botanical work and elected professor of agriculture. In 1887 was given
charge of the work of the experiment station under the title of
Director. In 1891 was appointed Dean of the College of Agriculture.
Present title, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the
Agricultural Experiment Station. Since 1887 has served as staff
correspondent for the Breeders' Gazette, Chicago. In 1881-2, under the
direction of the legislature, he conducted experiments in the
manufacture of sugar from amber cane, and the ensiloing of fodders,
the report of the work being embraced in two volumes published by the
state. The Experiment Station, under his direction, has issued
seventeen annual reports and eighty-four bulletins.   He is the author
of the chapter on Cattle Feeding in the special report on Diseases of
Cattle and Cattle Feeding, published by the Department of Agriculture,
Washington. By direction of the legislature of 1895, he prepared a
hand book for the home. seeker, a volume of 200 pages, with nearly 100
half-tone Illustrations setting forth the agricultural features of
northern Wisconsin. Of this publication 50,000 copies were printed and
distributed. In December, 1896, he published a bulletin of forty
pages, showing that Wisconsin Is adapted to the production of sugar
from the beet root. In March, 1898, he published a volume of 661
pages on stock feeding, entitled "Feeds and Feeding; a Hand Book for
tile Student and Stockman." This work has gone through three editions.