Review of "Our Purpose is to Serve"; The First Century of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station

Authors

Peter D. Shemitz, University of Kansas

Date of this Version

1991

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 11:4 (Fall 1991). Copyright © 1991 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Danbom's exhaustive account of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station at Fargo usefully fills a gap in the history of agriculture on the Great Plains. The author explains how the experiment station was founded and the development of the main interests of its scientists: breeding varieties of crops and livestock, diversifying production, and adopting modem agricultural and business practices.