THE BATTALION.
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tural College the following year. Left col
lege for over two years to follow truck
farming and school teaching, returning at
the end of that period for training in truck
and fruit growing, having been convinced
from the cruel ingratitude of a swarm of
black hybrids that bees and he were not
congenial companions. Graduated in 1897
and was given a position as special assistant
to Prof. E. R. Taft, the horticulturist of
Michigan Agricultural College, and while
at this station wrote on the diseases of the
stone fruits. Accepted a position as lec
turer and demonstrator in practical ento
mology at the University of Illinois in 1898.
In 1899 was engaged to take charge of
nursery inspection and orchard work
against San Jose scale, under Dr. S. H.
Forbes, State Entomologist of Illinois.
Resigned from above position to accept an
instructorship in A & M College of Texas.
In carrying forward original investigations
on cause and control of bitter rot of the
apple, purchased sixty acres of apple
orchard in the Illinois fruit belt. Operated
EDWARD C. GREEN
Assistant Horticulturist Texas A. & M.
College.
orchard with profit and wrote several arti
cles for publication on experience gained
therein.