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Fifty Years of the American Dairy Science Association

Historian of the Association Dairy Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing

ABSTRACT

The story of the American Dairy Science Association is intimately interwoven with the history of agricultural education in America and with the spectacular development of the dairy industry. Although the Morrill Act of 1862, signed by Abraham Lincoln, created Land-Grant colleges, the agricultural student enrollment at the turn of the 20th century was comparatively small.

The development of dairy training was hampered by a lack of scientific knowledge, suitable textbooks, and qualified instructors. The early agricultural and dairy training was centered around botany, chemistry, physics, and mathematics, for it was in those fields that texts for instruction were available. Both books and higher education in agriculture were sought in Europe.

The Hatch Act of 1887 authorized federal grants for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations. Soon, in research centers located generally at the state Land-Grant college, studies were being made on what seemed to be the most pressing problems. By 1900, many fundamental discoveries in dairying had been introduced.

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