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The Journal of Dairy Science and its Editors: A Review

Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824
American Dairy Science Association

ABSTRACT

Publishing the Journal of Dairy Science was a pioneering venture. Perhaps no single introduction has so influenced attainment of world status by the American Dairy Science Association as establishment of the Journal of Dairy Science in 1917. Le Lait, the French scientific dairy journal, was not yet to appear for four years (1921). Concurrently with the change of the name of the Official Dairy Instructors' Association to the American Dairy Science Association, "Volume I, Number 1" of the Journal of Dairy Science appeared on May 1, 1917. The completed volume of six numbers encompassed both 1917 and 1918.

Today's Journal reader may think that the introduction of such a successful scientific journal was a casual or a mundane affair. But many members of the Association in 1917 were concerned. Some doubted the wisdom of an organization of dairy teachers and investigators engaging in such a publishing enterprise and vociferously predicted the Journal's early failure. Nonetheless, from the vantage point of over half a century, a scientific society publishing articles of its own creation carries little risk.