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4. Dow shall we li('i)Uiiish Our Dairv llci-ds. 



5. Some Facts About tlie Care of Farm Teams. 



6. Some Neglected Points in the Feeding of ('alves. 



COOKE, PKOF. VVKLLS \V., i:!28 Twelfth Street, N. W., Wash- 

 ington, 1). C: 



1. Economical Feeding of Farm Stock. 



2. The Value of Farm Manure and How to Retain 1(. 



3. The Effect of Feed on the Quantity and Quality of Milk. 



4. Theory and Practice of Crop Fertilization. 



5. Feeding from the Silo throughout the Year. 



6. Forage Crops as a Substitute for Pasture. 



7. Care and Feeding of Dairy Stock. 



8. Handling jMilk and Butter-Making. 



9. Nature Study in the Country School. 



10. Economy in Feeding the Farmer's Family. 



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WELLS W. COOKE was born in Massachusetts and educated at the public 

 schools, the University of Iowa, Ripon College, Ripon, Wis., where he gradu- 

 ated in 1879, and the University of Vermont, in which latter institution 

 he took a post-graduate course in chemistry. Had charge for four years 

 of industrial farm schools in the west, and in 18S6 was appointed professor 

 of agriculture of the University of Vermont and director of the Vermont 

 Experiment Station, holding both positions until 1893. During this time, 

 for six years, had charge of the organizing and conducting of the Farmers' 

 Institutes of the State. From 1S93 to 1900 was professor of agriculture of the 

 Colorado Agricultural College. The past two years has been connected with 

 work of the Correspondence Course in Agriculture at the Pennsylvania State 

 College. 



COX, JOHN W., New ^Vilmington, Lawrence County, Pa.: 



1. Soil Fertility and the Preparation of the Seed Bed. 



2. Maintaining Soil Moisture and Vegetable Matter in the Soil. 



3. Poultry Raising and Feeding for Profit. 



4. Easiest and Most Profitable Way to Grow Potatoes. 



5. Commercial Fertilizers. 



JOHN W. COX was born near New Wilmington, Lawrence county, Pa., De- 

 cember 27, 1868; received a common school education and a course at Duff's 

 Commercial College, Pittsburg; has spent all his life on the farm; is a breeder 

 of Jersey Cattle on his 200-acre farm, besides Barred Plymouth Rock poultry. 

 Wheat, oats, corn, hay, and potatoes are his principal crops; is much inter- 

 ested in the education of the farmers' children, and is serving his third three- 

 year term as school director; is pursuing the Correspondence Course of the 

 Pennsylvania State College. 



