WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK


Although this test did much to improve the economic status of the
dairy farmer and his herds, Babcock steadily refused to patent his
device.
   Babcock was also active in many other fields, among them the
 early experiments which led to the discovery of vitamin content and
 its effect. It is interesting to note that his early experiments in this
 field were sometimes postponed and even stopped because of the re-
 luctance of the university to assign a few cattle to him for testing,
 and that the experiments proceeded more rapidly when white rats
 were substituted for cattle.
   These experiments did much to break down the resistance of the
 farmers to suggestions from professors and to raise the status of the
 agricultural college people in the eyes of their academic brethren.
   Among his many honors is one unique in this state. In 1899 the
Wisconsin legislature passed a joint resolution providing that a
bronze medal be presented to him as a testimonial of his service to
the state. This medal, designed by Spinx and Son of London, was
selected by a special legislative committee and presented to Dr.
Babcock by Governor La Follette during the 1901 session of the
legislature.
   Other great scientists include Increase A. Lapham, Edwin B. Hart,
Elmer V. McCollum, Harry Steenbock, Conrad A. Elvehjem, Karl
Paul Link, Max Mason, Farrington Daniels.

             HAMLIN GARLAND 1860-1940 - WRITER
   Hamlin Garland was one of Wisconsin's great writers, born Sep-
tember 14, 1860 in West Salem, Wisconsin. As a youth he worked
on the farm during half of the year and attended school the rest of
the time. He completed the Cedar Valley Seminary at Osage, Iowa.
He then spent a year walking through the eastern states and another
on a claim he staked out in the Dakotas. After selling his holding
he went east again where he started to write. His late life was spent
in California where he died March 4, 1940.
  His greatest writing depicts the life of the Middle West with
which he was most familiar. The hardships of his early life are re-
counted so that many of his books are more historical than novels.
His stories of the Middle Border, namely, "A Son of the Middle
Border", "A Daughter of the Middle Border" and "Back
Trailers of
the Middle Border" were among his well-known books.
  In the area of literature mention should also be made of Berton
Braley, Zona Gale, Honore Willsie Morrow, Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
Ray Stannard Baker, William Ellery Leonard, Helen White, Eben
Eugene Rexford, Edna Ferber, Thornton Wilder.


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