History

The University of Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station Chemical Laboratories (ESCL) are the Missouri State Fertilizer and Limestone Regulatory facilities and an analytical resource. It possesses a fantastic past - creative, academic and analytical.

Dr. Leonard D. Haigh, 1918 - 1946

Dr. Charles W. Gehrke, 1950 - 1987

Dr. Thomas P. Mawhinney, 1988 - present.

Directors of the Ferilizer and Lime Control Laws

Homer L. L'Hote, 1948 -1950

R. C. Prewitt, 1950 - 1958

Winfred D. Baker, 1958 - 1985

Joseph V. Slater, 1991 - present

In 1988 when the Experiment Station was organized, Agricultural Chemistry was founded. It was first listed within the catalog of the University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, in1894, as a separate department focusing on chemical work.

Dr. Paul Schweitzer (b. 03/01/1840, Berlin, Germany) .

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