Professor Thomas Shaw (1843-1918) was the author of: Weeds and How to Eradicate Them (1893), Forage Crops Other Than Grasses (1899), The Study of Breeds in America: Cattle, Sheep and Swine (1900), Soiling Crops and the Silo (c1900), Sheep Husbandry in Minnesota (1900), Animal Breeding (1901), Grasses and How to Grow Them in North America (1903), Clovers and How to Grow Them (1906), Feeding Farm Animals (1907), The Management and Feeding of Cattle (1909), Dry Land Farming (1909), For Better Crop (c1911), and Management and Feeding of Sheep (1914).