Alva Agee (1858 - 1943)

Alva Agee was an agriculture professor and head of Department of Agricultural Extension of The Pennsylvania State College. He was also the first New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture (1916). “Nearly all profitable farming in this country is based upon the fundamental fact that our lands are storehouses of fertility, and that this reservoir of power is essential to a successful agriculture.” -Alva Agee (1912)