{"id":7396,"date":"2017-06-23T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-dev.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/jacksonmural\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:31:03","slug":"jacksonmural","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/events-exhibits\/jacksonmural\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Morrow Jackson’s “Ag Time” Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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People in Billy Morrow Jackson’s “Ag Time” Painting<\/h2>\n
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  1. Cyril George Hopkins – Head of the Department of Agronomy 1900-1919. Researcher and advocate ofthe science and practice of soil conservation<\/li>\n
  2. William R. Boggess – Head of the Department of Forestry 1968-73. Pioneer in measuring treegrowth<\/li>\n
  3. Edward Murray East – Known as the father of modern plant breeding. Shares the honor of beingco-inventor of hybrid corn<\/li>\n
  4. George Espy Morrow – Professor of Agriculture 1876-94.n First dean of the College ofAgriculture 1878-94. Responsible for developing the first continuous U.S. experiment in croprotation<\/li>\n
  5. Big Al – the World’s first transgenic pig. Work done by Professor Matt Wheeler<\/li>\n
  6. H.H. Mitchell – Animal scientist whose research led to the adoption of statistical treatment ofdata in animal nutrition laboratories<\/li>\n
  7. E.W. Lehmann – First head of the Department of Agricultural Engineering in 1921. Early leaderin the fight for rural electrification<\/li>\n
  8. Jonathan Baldwin Turner – Noted farmer and lecturer who first formulated a comprehensive planfor a national system of universities<\/li>\n
  9. Abraham Lincoln – Holding the Morrill Act which he signed in 1862, establishing the Land GrantColleges<\/li>\n
  10. Alma Mater – Holding a cardinal (the state bird) in her left hand, and a bunch of violets (thestate flower) in her right<\/li>\n
  11. Vermont Senator Justin Smith Morrill \u2013 (Holding Mumford House, built in 1870) Fought for manyyears in Congress for passage of act that bears his name<\/li>\n
  12. Wilbur John Fraser – Head of the Department of Dairy Husbandry 1902-13. Responsible for much ofthe planning, construction, and arrangement of the experimental round barn<\/li>\n
  13. Isabel Bevier – Head of the Department of Household Science 1900-21. Credited with developingone of the outstanding home economics departments in the U.S.<\/li>\n
  14. Glenn W. Salisbury – Head of the Department of Dairy Science 1947-69. Groundbreaking work inartificial insemination in dairy cattle<\/li>\n
  15. Clyde Melvin Woodworth – First soybean geneticist. Developed early improved soybean cultivarsincluding Chief, Illini, Viking and Lincoln<\/li>\n
  16. William Leonidas Burlison – Head of the Department of Agronomy 1920-51. Helped make Illinoisthe largest soybean producer in the United States<\/li>\n
  17. Thomas Jonathan Burrill – Professor of botany and horticulture 1870-1903. Professor of botany1902-12. Created science of bacterial plant pathology<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    People in Billy Morrow Jackson’s “Ag Time” Painting Cyril George Hopkins – Head of the Department of Agronomy 1900-1919. Researcher and advocate ofthe science and practice of soil conservation William R. Boggess – Head of the Department of Forestry 1968-73. Pioneer in measuring treegrowth Edward Murray East – Known as the father of modern plant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"parent":13787,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7396"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17141,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7396\/revisions\/17141"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}