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Stockbridge (HORACE EDWARD an American)

HORACE EDWARD, an American agricultural chemist, born at Hadley, Mass., in 1857. He was educated at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Boston University, and at the University of Göttingen. From 1884 to STOCKBRIDGE 1885 he was associate professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Agricultural College; from 1885 to 1889 professor of chemistry and geology at the Imperial College of Agriculture and Engineering, Japan; from 1887 to 1889 chief chemist of the Japanese Government; from 1890 to 1894 president of the N. D. Agricultural College and director of the N. D. Experiment Station; from 1897 to 1906 professor of agriculture at the Florida Agricultural College and director of State agricultural institutions; and from 1906 on, editor of the "Southern Ruralist," Atlanta, Ga. He was a member of many domestic and foreign chemical , agricultural, educational and scientific societies, and from 1916 to 1917 president of the Farmers' National Congress .

Besides writing reports and magazine articles on agricultural and scientific topics, he published "Rocks and Soils" (1888); and "Land Teaching" (1910 ).

STOCK DOVE (Columba ænas), the common wild pigeon, 14 inches in length, and with a general bluish gray plumage, the breast being purplish. It raises two or three broods in a season and builds its nest in a tree stump or in a rabbit burrow.