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7. Intensity in Farming a Necessity. 



S. My Ex])ciicii('e with Coninicrcial Fertilizers and Uow to Buy. 

 !). How Wo Can Keep llic (Ji'.ls on the Farm. 

 10. Growing Onions and Celery. 



M. S. BOND was born on a farm in Montour county, Pa., February 26, 1834; 

 lived and worked on a farm until eighteen years old, then taught school seven 

 years, then was employed as freight and passenger conductor for nine years, 

 and traveled as lost freight and car tracer and purchasing agent for the Dela- 

 Avare, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company for five years. Has been 

 for over twenty-five years engaged in farming and market gardening; during a 

 part of this time, engaged in breeding and raising blooded Jersey cattle and 

 still keeps some of the best in the Slate; has ma,de the raising of potatoes by 

 the thousands of bushels a specialty for twenty-five years; has been and is 

 now using more fertilizer to the acre than any man in his county, and is 

 now making gardening a specialty. 



BKODHEAD, C. W., Montrose, Susquehanna County, Ta.: 



1. Horseshoeing and Anatomy of Foot and Leg, with Speci- 



mens. (45 minutes.) 



2. Care of Horses' Feet and Teeth, with Specimens. (40 min- 



utes.) 



3. Some Things Every One Should Know who Owns or Handk^ 



a Horse. (30 minutes.) 



4. Zoology of the Horse; a Nature Study. (Illustrated with 



chart and specimens.) (30 minutes.) 



C. W. BKODHEAD was born December 20, 1852, near White Haven, Luzerne 

 county, Pa. He received a common school education; commenced to work 

 in a horseshoeing and jobbing shop at 16 years of age; worked six years at 

 the business before he knew anything about a horse's foot; then began to 

 study anatomy and to dissect feet and legs, and has been a student of the best 

 authors and in actual practice ever since; has one of the best libraries on ani- 

 mals and agriculture that can be had; is a registered specialist as a veterinary 

 dentist and in animal castrations. He divides his time, in the shop, in the 

 care of a ten-acre vegetable garden, and reading for general information; 

 takes great interest in farmers' organizations, trying to elevate their calling. 



BRUBAKEH, A. L., Hogestown, Cumberland County, Pa.: 



1. Potato Culture. (30 minutes.) 



2. The Farmers' Home. (30 minutes.) 



3. The Farmers' Education. (30 minutes.) 



4. The Farmers' Account Book. (30 minutes.) 



5. Other Crops. [A plea to the farmers' boy or girl.) (30 



minutes.) 



A. L. BRUBAKER was born on his father's farm in Lancaster county, Pa., 

 In 1863. In 1871 the family removed to a farm near Mechanicsburg, Pa., where 

 he worked during the summer and attended school in the v/inter until twenty- 

 one years of age. He received a good common school education, which 

 was supplemented by several terms at a select school. He has taught country 



