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ALFRED CHARLES, an American agricultural expert, born in Middletown, Conn., in 1853. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1873, and took post-graduate studies at Harvard and elsewhere. He taught until 1888 in schools and colleges, becoming in the following year editor for the Statistical Department of Agriculture. From 1893 to 1915 he was the director of the Office of Experimental Statistics in the Department of Agriculture, and edited various publications. He had general supervision of experimental stations in States and Territories, and carried on investigations on agricultural education and other related subjects in Alaska, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam.

From 1915 he was director of the States Relations Service of the Department of Agriculture and had general supervision of the co-operative extension work in agriculture and home economics conducted by the Department of Agriculture and the TRUE State agricultural colleges. At various times he was on the faculties of several universities and agricultural colleges.

He was the author of monographs on agricultural experiment stations in the United States and agricultural education.