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Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture : A Biography of William Carol Latte, Hardback Book

Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture : A Biography of William Carol Latte Hardback

Part of the The Founders Series series

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William Carol Latta was the 13th member of the Purdue faculty.

He became the driving force behind Purdue's world-famous School of Agriculture and initiated extension services that have lasted for more than a century.

In 1890, he laid out the first permanent soil fertility field experiments, inaugurating a system of research considered one of the best in the country at that time.

He administered Purdue's School of Agriculture until 1907.

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