30 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



CUKE. Z. T., Jciinyii. Lackawanna Couuty, l*a.: 



1. I'lodiKlioii and Care of Orchards. 



2. Corn Culture. 



3. The Economic Use of Commercial Fertilizers. 



4. Potato Culture. 



5. Education to (he Farmer a Necessity. (25-80 minutes.) 



(J. -The liaiidlin^ of Sheep and the Production of Early Sprinj; 

 Lambs. 



7. How the Kaisin*;' and Early Traininji of Colts may be a Pro- 



fitabh' Adjunct to General Farminj^-. 



8. The Proper llandlinft- of Heifer Calves u]) to. and Durinj;- the 



First Year of ^laternit}'. 



Z. T. CURE was born in 1S48, and attended the public schools, including the city 

 high school, until seventeen years of age, after which he taught school for five 

 years, and has followed farming and stock raising- ever since. His school 

 training has been supplemented by extensive reading courses, ^^Jlich, by 

 the aid of free translations, covered the subjects tanght in college courses, 

 with the exception of higher mathematics. As sources of information on 

 the topics w^hich he discusses, he depends upon experience and observation, 

 aided by Prof. L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University, in the domain of horticul- 

 ture and kindred subjects, and Andrew S. Fuller on the propagation of plants, 

 etc., and other publications of authority, together with a careful perusal of 

 the best agricultural periodicals of the day and a studious consultation of the 

 latest bulletins of the Experiment Stations. He has had considerable experi- 

 ence in the discussion of literary and scientific subjects before teachers' insti- 

 tutes, and has made a careful study of the topics chosen to present at Farmers' 

 Institutes. 



HETKICH, REV. J. D., Flourtown, Montgomery County, Pa.: 



1. How to Keep Twenty Head ctr INTore of Dairy Animals on 



Fifteen Acres. 



2. Eighteen Years' Experience in Soiling. 



;!. Sixteen Years' Experience with Wood(Mi Silo. 



4. Shall AVe (irow Crops on a Fifteen Acre Farm and no Fer- 



tilizer? 

 .~). I^'eed, l>i-eed and ("are of tlu' Dairy. 

 (». Breeding and Raising the Dairy Animal. 

 7. The Agricultural ("olh^ge and the Farmer. 



5. The Farmer's A\'aste P»asket. 



!». The Small Farm ys. Tlie Large Farm. 

 10. I'eiich, ]»o(»k and Farm. 



REV. J. D. DETRICJI'S knowledge of agriculture as a science dates from 1882, 

 since which time he has been availing himself of all the bulletins, magazines 

 and books relating to snil, crojjs, dairying, l)rpeding, feeding and roaring 



