Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station at Wooster.

This course was followed in Ohio, and the Experiment Station was re-organized, Charles E. Thorne being made Director, and the major part of the University farm being assigned to the use of the Station.

The rapid growth of the City of Columbus around the University soon showed that the time must come when its lands would become too valuable to be used for purposes of agriculture, and the permanent and largely increased income now assured the Station made it seem necessary that it should be so established that its work might be continued indefinately without interruption. The General Assembly therefore passed an act authorizing the several counties of the state to issue bonds for the purchase of lands and the erection of buildings for the use of the Station and to bid for its location. Several counties immediately took action under this law, and the offer of $85,000, made by Wayne County, was accepted by the Board of Control of the Station; the bonds were sold, several adjoining farms, lying near the city of Wooster, were purchased and the erection of buildings was at once commenced.

A dissatisfied citizen of Wayne County afterward brought suit to contest the constitutionality of the law under which the county had thus bonded itself. The common pleas and circuit courts both declared the law valid, but these decisions were reversed in the Supreme court, on the ground that the people of a part of the state were taxed for the support of an institution intended for the benefit of the whole state (see Constitution of Ohio), and it was held that the incidental benefits derived from the proximity of the Station were no justification for the extra taxation for its support. This decision seriously interrupted the work of the Station, but after about two years the General Assembly assumed the payment of the bonds and has since made provision for the completion of the buildings necessary for the Station work. These comprise the Administration Building and Chemical Laboratory, shown in the illustration, which is built in fire proof construction of the yellowish sandstone found on the Station farm; a block of greenhouses, 80x115 feet, with stone offices in front; a small biological laboratory; four large barns and a number of smaller ones; a fully equipped creamery, and seven dwellings. The Station owns 470 acres of land, in which it has laid about 26 miles of tile drains. It has planted about 20 acres in orchards, in which more than 700 varities of fruit are now in bearing. It has about 70 pure bred cattle, of six different breeds, and similar flocks of pure bred sheep.

The work of the Station has been organized in four different departments: (1) Agriculture, (2) Horticulture, (3) Entomology, and (4) Botany and Chemistry, each department being in charge of a specialist. The last General Assembly charged the Station in addition with an investigation of tuberculosis and other diseases of cattle, and made its Board of Control the agency for the execution of a law providing for the

Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station at Wooster.

inspection of orchards and nurseries against certain insect pests and plant diseases. This work has been organized as a separate department, independent of the Experiment Station.

MEMBERS OF BOARD OF CONTROL, WITH TERM OF SERVICE.

Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station at Wooster.

PRESENT ORGANIZATION OF THE OHIO AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT
STATION- Concluded.

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THE ATHENS STATE HOSPITAL.

HE Athens State Hospital was under the process of construction from 1868 until January 9, 1864, when the firct patients were admitted. The first two admissions to the institution were Thos. Armstrong and Daniel Fernaw. Mr. Armstrong died within a few months and Mr. Fernaw has been until now an inmate of the institution.

Dr. Richard Gundry was made Superintendent of Construction in June, 1872, and remained Superintendent until the 15th of December, 1876, when he resigned to assume the superintendency of the newly constructed asylum at Columbus. Upon the resignation of Dr. Gundry the superintendency of the institution devolved upon the senior assistant physician, Dr. Thos. Blackstone, now of Circleville, Ohio, who managed its affairs discreetly and faithfully. On the 16th of January, 1877, Dr. C. L. Wilson, of Indianapolis, Ind., was chosen to fill the vacancy. He being declared ineligible by the Supreme Court, Dr. H. C. Rutter was elected by the board of trustees to fill the vacancy. Dr. Rutter was then a resident of Bellefontaine, Ohio. The next superintendent was Dr. P. H. Clarke, of Meigs County. Dr. Holden, of Zanesville, was then appointed to succeed Dr. Clarke. On the 6th of May, 1880, Dr. H. C. Rutter was re-appointed and he resigned this position in February, 1881, and Dr. A. B. Richardson was elected to fill the vacancy. Dr. Richardson resigned the superintendency April 17, 1890, and Dr. W. P. Crumbacker was appointed to the place. Dr. Crumbacker resigned May 19, 1892, and Dr. C. O. Dunlap was appointed. He resigned June 1, 1896, and Dr. E. H. Rorick was appointed to fill his place. While it can be said that the Athens State Hospital never had an inefficient superintendent it will be noticed on the other hand, that two of the superintendents (Dr. Gundry and Dr. Richardson) attained a national reputation in their line of work.

This hospital is in close proximity to the beautiful and historical city of Athens, noted for its pure air and cultured people. While the Athens State Hospital is not the largest in the state it is certainly one of the best. It is here that years ago Dr. Richardson, then its superintendent, first took the straight-jacket off the inmates and inaugurated a new era in the treatment of insane patients. It was also during the superintendency of Dr. Richardson that the congregate dining room system was inaugurated in the state of Ohio.

The original capacity of the institution was only 572, but by new arrangements and some additions to the buildings the capacity has been enlarged to 813. The greatest number of patients ever in the institution at one time, which has been during the present year, was 1012.

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