The K-State ag college newsletter to students, alumni and faculty serving in WWII became a two-way correspondence. This great story (See ksre.ksu.edu/agreport/fb/spring10/index.html) includes this reminder that agriculture was never far from the servicemen’s thoughts: “Darold Dodge (BA ‘41 agricultural economics, MS ‘47 agronomy) wrote from Africa, “The country is interesting. Crops are similar to ours and on the other hand so different. Get a kick out of walking through the country and noticing agricultural conditions.” And this: “Paul Kelley (BS ‘43, MC ‘46, agricultural economics) wrote about visiting a dairy farm on an island with Bill Mudge (BS ‘42, PhD ‘66 animal science, MS ‘57 dairy production). ‘Here we were, two sailors on a farm on liberty and Bill tried to get me up at 4:30 in the morning to see the Jerseys miled. Being a good economist who couldn’t see how getting up at 4:30 would change the price of butter, I told him I’d see him later, so I proceeded to go back to sleep. Crawled out at 6:30 in time to see Bill heading back from the barns.”
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:18:24 +0000
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