referred research laboratory originally built study honey bees today primarily study native species chemicals populations academic building unique credited united_states erected exclusively teaching prior construction building maintained program number years land grant agricultural colleges teach subject united_states time techniques progressed leaving longer simply hobby viable agricultural business college program remained limited single short course number years expanded bill passed establishing office state inspector man appointed position college lecturer time oversee expansion program asset college service state years come construction began february completion june following year total cost time building contained laboratory cellar wood workshop office comprehensive library books honey wax extraction rooms person apartment student tenants structure built college orchard section campus known central housing area time gates research focused mainly honey production brood diseases wax extraction industries laboratory operated superintendent hired gates maintain facilities day day perform wax services state following gates resignation school ceased offer summer school state extension services college went different professors hiring new professor retirement laboratory urban medical research program falling relative obscurity present time exclusively research native decline ecology classes taught university nearly decade ago building currently university list suggesting ultimately dismantled point near future history origins program early days founding maintained ecological studies bees history short courses taught college expert behavior president time lectures given years followed appear instruction subject given agricultural college country indicated account college history decades earlier western massachusetts home man considered father modern spent time developing innovative considered international standard philadelphia moved massachusetts recover illness study behavior following year published widely acclaimed honey bee press book having gone editions american literature serve lecturer agricultural college years time continued significant contributions queen known community developing strain notably italian despite success wood unfortunately live establishment college died period illness february age construction idea campus conceived sole purpose campus orchard time facilities built president administration seen realized greater purpose potential previously considered time considered new business venture thought hobby business farmers decades prior pioneer work originated new_england massachusetts states create state inspector man led program fill position professor originally hired time series lectures guest speaker spring semester continue administration hired permanent faculty member concurrently built new laboratory equipped modern amenities time saw opportunity research diseases ecology honey bee point pursued thoroughly public organization higher education ground broken site old building foot mount pleasant new building yards june following year building completed total cost time completion grounds contained species native yielding flowers home bee colonies multiple races building contained wax honey extraction rooms cellar office extensive library books wood workshop laboratory person apartment occupied student research laboratory classroom extension service state demand increased services necessary maintain additional reasons gates hired superintendent responsibilities included performing wax running college exhibit maintaining yard day day continue maintain building equipment death professors continue work successor arrived following year gates promoted assistant associate professor continued work lecturer experimental station president twice hosting conventions concluding college winter spring sessions college school left leaving position open years followed gates duties taken different people decade work taken professor soon resigned job commercial replaced professor alumnus college stayed years ultimately resign severe instructor graduate performed extensive work projects research assistant leaving work federal laboratory contemporary history span decade laboratory run different faculty members finally new permanent instructor hired student time previously hired assistant college experimental station resignation responsibilities shift began teach courses ecology instructor economic concurrently finishing left serve second world war eventually promoted instructor assistant professor continue offer courses maintain section department right 1970s appears superintendent hired replace extension work state ceased professor went comprehensive ecology textbook textbook intended replace text renowned published total seven editions retired age professor position abolished immediately following retirement student scholarship fund department set department late 1970s mid-1990s laboratory medical urban professor running projects professor focusing orchard pest control cellar basement lab converted laboratories workshop relocated garage adjacent building constructed year housed direction uses lab space studies infectious disease research department studies chemical ecology behavior colonies research yards majority data collected higher numbers colonies different experimental stations today laboratory conduct research native decline selected publications gates massachusetts measure factors affecting development bee colony bees massachusetts study physical factors influencing sugar concentration effect certain modern effects combinations ddt honey bee comparative selected organic honey bee pan culture bee forage crops decade following building construction multiple courses taught behavior college owned bee colonies lent faculty course program taught summer semester college years college assembled extensive collection books equipment year followed summer school held composed courses taught previous years addition class practical lectures laboratory practice general work equipment practices preparation materials location commencing bees handling bees practice procedure spring manipulation fall preparation extracted honey production bee diseases treatment making increase elements queen etc associate professor superintendent life lectures professor special problems lectures demonstrations races bees introduction queens handling honey production enemies bees professor science crops bees lectures field director experiment station relation bees plants including coloration odor lectures laboratory work structure associate professor bees practices fruit production market culture greenhouse growing affected practices lectures field work associate professor 1920s 1970s laboratory mainly faculty graduate research courses offered undergraduate students introductory advanced single course offered public summers brief time spring introductory course offered reorganization department classes ceased architecture landscape encompassed trees academic buildings surrounded fields time construction early photographs yard originally acres size extending feet south property present day boundaries developed residential neighborhood building built entire east basement completely covered ground banked barn design likely allow transported ease yards cellar alternatively making temperature building easily controlled storage building currently opposite sides roof original structure older photos late roof windows implying added later date building prominent design feature roof later influence architect alumnus college design dormitory time building hill hall buildings campus exhibit architectural motif likely incorporated design compliment
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