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For the Good of the Farmer - A Biography of John Harrison Skinner, Dean of Purdue Agriculture (Hardcover)
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For the Good of the Farmer - A Biography of John Harrison Skinner, Dean of Purdue Agriculture (Hardcover)
Series: The Founders Series
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The key role that farming plays in the economy of Indiana today
owes much to the work of John Harrison Skinner (1874-1942). Skinner
was a pioneering educator and administrator who transformed the
study of agriculture at Purdue University during the first decades
of the twentieth century. From humble origins, occupying one
building and 150 acres at the start of his career, the agriculture
program grew to spread over ten buildings and 1,000 acres by the
end of his tenure as its first dean. A focused, single-minded man,
Skinner understood from his own background as a grain and stock
farmer that growers could no longer rely on traditional methods in
adapting to a rapidly changing technological and economic
environment, in which tractors were replacing horses and new crops
such as alfalfa and soy were transforming the arable landscape.
Farmers needed education, and only by hiring the best and brightest
faculty could Purdue give them the competitive edge that they
needed. While he excelled as a manager and advocate for Indiana
agriculture, Skinner never lost touch with his own farming roots,
taking especial interest in animal husbandry. During the course of
his career as dean (1907-1939), the number of livestock on Purdue
farms increased fourfold, and Skinner showed his knowledge of
breeding by winning many times at the International Livestock
Exposition. Today, the scale of Purdue's College of Agriculture has
increased to offer almost fifty programs to hundreds of students
from all over the globe. However, at its base, the agricultural
program in place today remains largely as John Harrison Skinner
built it, responsive to Indiana but with its focus always on
scientific innovation in the larger world.
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