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Another copy in Doc. Centre : CA2ON UF82 67A33

Papers, including minute book 1946-1955; correspondence and documents 1946-1960; reports presented in competition for Farm Equipment Institute Award 1950-1953, 1955-1961; membership record book 1950-1968. Reports include photographs of staff, junior and senior year students; descriptions, some photographs and clippings of committees, meetings, branch activities (including contour plowing matches and tractor rodeos, College Royal, etc.), social functions; financial statements.

Collection of coloured engravings including of an Arab-Toorkman charger (from Syria); Mr. John Harris's pair of Henny Came, special prize at Liskeard, 1872; a heated poultry house, 1823; a dairy building and apparatus; and improved hoggery and feeding conveniences, 1823.

In 1902 Christie took his degree from O.A.C. and then attended Iowa State College for postgraduate work. From 1903 to 1905 he was an assistant in agronomy at this College. In 1905 he accepted a post as assistant in soils and crops at Purdue University, where he was promoted in a year's time to the Department of Extension of which he became Director in 1909. From 1917 to 1918 he was the state food director for Indiana. He was appointed assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture in Washington in 1918, becoming Assistant Secretary in 1919. In 1920 he became Director of the Experiment Station at Purdue.