George W. VarseveldPapers 1948-1994
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Oregon State University. Agricultural Experiment Station.
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The Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station was established under the provisions of the federal Hatch Act of 1887. Agricultural experimentation began at Oregon Agricultural College in 1888. In 1901 the first branch station was established at Union, in northeast Oregon, to address issues pertaining to the agriculture in that part of the state. Branch stations were subsequently established throughout Oregon. From the description of Agricultural Experiment Station records, 1889-2002 (bul...
Oregon State University. Dept. of Food Science & Technology.
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In 1919, a horticultural products processing program, the first of its kind in the United States, was begun at Oregon Agricultural College by Ernest H. Wiegand. The modern maraschino cherry was developed by this program in the 1920s. In 1937 the program was established as a department, Food Products Industries. A seafoods lab in Astoria was established in 1940. The department was renamed several times; in 1962 it became the Department of Food Science and Technology. Research efforts have involve...
Varseveld, G. W. (George Wallace)
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George W. Varseveld was a faculty member in the Food Science and Technology Department at Oregon State University from 1963 until his retirement in 1989. As a research food scientist, he advised graduate students and conducted research on fruits and vegetables -- specifically mechanical harvesting of strawberries, suitability of fruits and vegetables for processing, green pea grading, and freezing of snap beans. Varseveld earned a BS in Agriculture at the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1947 a...
Oregon State University. Extension Service
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On July 24, 1911, Oregon Agricultural College's Board of Regents organized the Oregon Extension Service in response to requests from citizens of Oregon for assistance (particularly in agriculture) from the college. R.D. Hetzel, professor of political science, was named as the first director of the Extension Service. The first county extension agents began in Marion and Wallowa Counties in September of 1912. Legislation permitting counties to appropriate money for extension work that would be mat...
