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Symposium: Improving Communications and Research Cooperation Between Industry and University Personnel

Industry Communications Program of the University of Wisconsin

University-Industry-Research Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706

ABSTRACT

Historical

For many years, and for persons such as Stephan Moulton Babcock, the boundaries of the campus of the University of Wisconsin, as at other universities, had been proclaimed as the boundaries of the State. In the zeal of some, even these have been extended.

In 1882, J. C. Ford, a Dane County, Wisconsin farmer, in an address before the State Agricultural Society stated, "The University needs a place for experiments. They should have a model farm and eight to ten good professors. The beggarly tax we would pay would be repaid a hundred times. If someone had found a way to head off the chinch bug, it would have saved Wisconsin 100 million dollars. We do not want science floating in the skies. We want to bring it down and hitch it to our plows." The Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station became a reality in 1883; with it a succession of scientific pioneers who did communicate—Henry, Babcock, Hart, Humphrey, Hastings, Russell, Steenbock, and others.