Background
Emmet Stull Goff was born on September 3, 1852, at Elmira, New York. He was the son of Gustavus A. and Mary (Stull) Goff. His boyhood was spent on a New York farm.
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Plant-Culture-Emmett-Stull/dp/B00A8V0JES?SubscriptionId=AKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ&tag=prabook-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00A8V0JES
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-commercial-fruit-growing-1852-1902/dp/B009T4VATS?SubscriptionId=AKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ&tag=prabook-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B009T4VATS
(Please see all 7 photos.)
Please see all 7 photos.
https://www.amazon.com/First-principles-Agriculture-Emmet-Goff/dp/B002UPJHXO?SubscriptionId=AKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ&tag=prabook-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B002UPJHXO
Emmet Stull Goff was born on September 3, 1852, at Elmira, New York. He was the son of Gustavus A. and Mary (Stull) Goff. His boyhood was spent on a New York farm.
Goff attended the public schools and later the Elmira Free Academy from which he graduated in 1869.
For the next thirteen years, he was engaged in a fruit-growing and farming project near Elmira in which he was associated with his father and brother.
The opportunity for a professional career came to Goff in 1882 when he was appointed horticulturist of the New York Experiment Station at Geneva, New York.
For seven years, he carried on investigations relating to the culture of many different plants of economic importance. By reason of the reputation which he gained through his excellent work there, he was appointed to the newly created position of professor of horticulture and horticulturist of the experiment station of the University of Wisconsin.
He entered upon his duties at Wisconsin in 1889 and continued them actively until his death in 1902.
Goff’s researches included phases of economic entomology, plant pathology, plant physiology, as well as horticulture. In all of these fields, he made noteworthy contributions. The testing of varieties was one of the lines of work to which the experiment station was expected to devote a considerable part of its efforts. Out of the data secured through such tests, Goff developed a systematic classification of the various common vegetables. He was not a mere laboratory investigator, however. His studies always followed lines in which the results might be directly used to help the agriculturist. This was especially true of his experiments in the use of fungicides and insecticides. He displayed his ability to work out new methods of utilizing the available information on a particular subject in his conception of the kero-water pump, a device for mechanically mixing kerosene and water to be used in the control of sucking insects, and in his development of the tar-paper-disc method of controlling cabbage maggots. His investigation of the nature and extent of root development in plants contributed largely to the knowledge of this important phase of plant production and gave a scientific basis for the formulation of certain cultural practices. Possibly his most notable research was his study of the differentiation of the flower buds of fruit plants, which, though it remained unfinished at his death, elicited the praise of botanical and horticultural scientists in general. He contributed three excellent books to horticultural literature. The first, a model of its kind, was adopted as a text-book in a number of agricultural colleges and secondary schools, and in spite of the rapid advances in horticultural knowledge, held its place for an unusually long time.
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
(Please see all 7 photos.)
The position of the professor of horticulture and horticulturist of the experiment station of the University of Wisconsin afforded Goff a chance to show that his abilities were not limited to the carrying on of investigational work, and while he is best known for the high character of his researches, he was equally proficient as an instructor.
On October 2, 1880, Goff was married to S. Antoinette Carr.
