Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1898 — Resignation Accepted. [ARTICLE]

Resignation Accepted.

Des Moines, la., July 18. —The board of trustees for the lowa Agricultural college nt Ames has accepted the resignation of Prof. J. L. Budd, in the chair of horticulture for many years. He is well known to all horticulturists. A fight has been made on him for years by lowa nurserymen opposed to hilt introducing Russian fruit trees. He resigned to care for his own hortleul•ural interests.