Ben Madson Papers 1920-1956

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Ben Madson Papers 1920-1956

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Ben Madson (1887-1974) served as Professor of Agronomy (1928-1954) and Director of Agricultural Field Stations (1948-1954) at the University of California. His papers contain correspondence, field station research and progress reports, range management investigations and budgets, committee materials regarding the development of the University of California, College of Agriculture (now the University of California, Davis), and several photographs of field test plots.

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University of California, Davis. General Library. . Dept. of Special Collections

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