Abstract

J. S. Carver, Acting Director of the Washington Agricultural Experiment Stations, died on August 30, 1957. Prior to his appointment as Acting Director in 1956, he had served as Chairman of the Department of Poultry Science, the State College of Washington, Pullman, Washington, for 33 years. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1892; and obtained a B.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1913. For two years following graduation he worked on commercial poultry farms in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut. In 1915 he was appointed Poultry Specialist in Essex County, Massachusetts, and became Head of the Poultry Department, Essex County Agricultural School, serving in that capacity until 1917, and from 1920 to 1922. From 1917 to 1920 he was State Extension Specialist in Poultry at the University of Maine. In 1922 he was appointed Educational Director of the United States Veterans Vocational School at East Norfolk, Massachusetts . . .

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