Dr. Wolf Leaves Experiment Station To Serve in Army, 1918

“Another Experiment Station Man Goes,” in The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., August 12, 1918

West Raleigh, Aug. 10—Dr. F.A. Wolf, for several years in charge of the Rotary and Plant Pathology work for the North Carolina Experiment Station, has been given a commission as First Lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps of the United States Army, and will sever his connections at the College at an early date. Dr. Wolf is an experienced bacteriologist and one of the most thorough scientists of the Experiment Station staff. He has been given a leave of absence to take effect on August 26^th, when he will report at the Rockefeller Institute Hospital in New York City for a six-weeks period of instruction in war methods, after which he will be assigned to base hospital work in the war zone in France.

Coming to the Experiment Station on January 1, 1916, Dr. Wolf’s investigations have already proven of great benefit to North Carolina farmers. Especial mention might be made of his work in connection with tobacco wildfire last year. Control measures which he advocated, after a study of this serious tobacco disease, have resulted in a great saving to tobacco farmers during the present year. His recent study of the week causing milk sickness, or trembles, in the mountains of western North Carolina has also been of much value.

Various scientific magazines have from time to time published considerable material prepared as a result of Dr. Wolf’s investigations, and the Journal of Agricultural Research at Washington, one of the foremost scientific publications in the world, has used prominently all of the facts that he has been able to give them.

The loss of Dr. Wolf from the Experiment Station staff will be felt keenly. However, the call from the firing line has been too great, and since his knowledge of scientific investigations in bacteriology will be of immense value in controlling diseases, and in aiding wounded soldiers, he has decided to take up this work for the period of the war.