The Capper award “for the most distinguished service to agriculture” will be presented tonight to Dr. Stephen M. Babcock, the University of Wisconsin’s “grand old man,” as a feature of the annual Country Life association banquet at the Hotel Loraine.
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Dr. Stephen Babcock inspects an electric centrifuge butterfat tester in 1926. Photo by Melvin E. Diemer
Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock works with dairy cows in 1925 at the University of Wisconsin barns. Photo by Melvin E. Diemer
Teachers and students use a "Babcock Tester" in 1915 in a classroom in Barrington, Illinois. The original caption reads, "Pupils of grammar grades testing milk with Babcock Tester; County Superintendent Tobin and rural life leader Phillips, looking on." -- McCormick-International Harvester collection
A crowd is seated in 1928 on the lawn of Agriculture Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for a ceremony honoring Stephen M. Babcock, inventor of the butter test. Photo by Melvin E. Diemer
Dean W.A. Henry, University of Wisconsin President Thomas C. Chamberlin and Stephen M. Babcock inspect Babcock's butterfat testing device in 1917 in Madison. Photo by Melvin E. Diemer
Dr. Stephen M. Babcock poses with a cow in May 1928 in a University of Wisconsin pasture. Photo by Melvin E. Diemer
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