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R. H. Olmstead Dies

B. H. OLMSTEAD, professor emeritus of Dairy Science Extension at the Pennsylvania State University, passed away September 11, 1960, at the age of 68.

A native of Pennsylvania, Olmstead entered Penn State as a student in 1912 and except for 1 yr. spent farming, 1920–21, and a year of graduate study at the University of Minnesota in 1922, he was associated with Penn State all his life. After graduation from college he spent 1 yr. as an instructor in Animal Husbandry and then spent 3 yr. as a County Agent. Following his farming interlude he joined the Dairy Extension staff and was associated witn mis group until flis retirement in 1954. He served as chairman of the Dairy Science Extension Section for 17 yr.

Professor Olmstead was widely known as a dairy cattle judge and served as an official judge for the American Guernsey Cattle Club and the Holstein-Friesian Association of America. He did much pioneering work for the dairy farming industry in his state.