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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Melvin E. Diemer collection, circa 1910-1955
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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Dairy Class. |
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| Description: | Cutting the grass with a large lawn mower near the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House (currently Camp Randall Stadium). |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Crowd seated on the lawn of Agriculture Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a ceremony honoring S.M. Babcock, inventor of the butter test. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Demonstration of spraying fruit trees by the Agricultural Extension. |
| Date: | 07 1915 |
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| Description: | Group of men, perhaps participants in a University of Wisconsin short course, tasting butter. |
| Date: | 06 09 1928 |
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| Description: | S.M. Babcock, on the right, and his original milk butterfat tester at an honorary ceremony. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exhibition about the contributions of Stephen M. Babcock to the history of the dairy industry in the lobby of the State Historical Society Building. Both t... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Unidentified man (inventor?) seated at and showing a foot-powered (?) milking machine. He is outdoors near a stone building. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Dean W.A. Henry, University President Thomas C. Chamberlin, and Stephen M. Babcock with Babcock's butterfat testing device. |
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| Description: | Interior full-length portrait of Dr. S.M Babcock and his tester for the separation of milk fat, which is a hand-cranked dairy centrifuge. |
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