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sylvania College, Gettysburg. Began farming forty years ago on a fifty acre 

 farm, and now farming about two hundred acres and running a dairy of 

 twenty-flve cows and selling their milk on a retail route. Has been sta- 

 tistical agent for both State and National Department of Agriculture for more 

 than thirty years and has been president of Farmers' Agricultural Association 

 of Adams county, almost all the time since its establishment and is yet. 

 During this time has spoken before agricultural associations of every sort 

 almost every year, and has done a good deal of writing for the agricultural 

 papers. 



FUNK, DR. J. H., Boyertown, Berks County, Fa.: 



1. Southern Versus Northern Apph^s for Pennsylvania. 



2. Peach Culture. (30 minutes.) 



3. The Commercial Orchard as a Business. (30 minutes.) 



4. Pruning, Fertilizing and Thinning. (30 minutes.) 



5. Cultivation Versus Mulching for Fruits. (80 minutes.) 



6. Sprajing; When, How and What For. (30 minutes.) 



7. Small Fruit Culture. (30 minutes.) 



8. Potato Culture. (30 minules.) 



9. The Birds and Insects as Friends and Foes, and How to Dis- 



tinguish Them. 



10. Soil Fertility; How to Get and Retain It. (30 minutes.) 



11. The Family Garden. (30 minutes.) 



Dr. J. H. FUNK was born March, lS-14, and was raised on his father's large 

 dairy farm in Montgomery county, Pa. At the age of 19 years he commenced 

 the study of medicine. Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 

 spring of 1S65. After practicing a few years, became interested in fruit grow- 

 ing, and raising and sale of nursery stock. Planted a large orchard in 1879 

 but finding New York state varieties not suited to the latitude, visited the 

 largest orchards in the different states, and in the spring of 1896 planted 

 another large commercial orchard of several thousand trees, all of southern 

 origin^ He now has one of the finest orchards in the State. In his orchard 

 an off-year is unknown. 



GROFF, PROF. GEO. G., Lewisburg, Union County, Pa.: 



1 . Farm Hygiene. (1 hour.) 



2. Dairy Hygiene. (I honr.j 



3. The Origin and Restoi-ation of Soils. (I hour.) 



4. ""'.Veeds of our Farms. (30 minutes.) 



5. Modern Life Built on Chemistry. (30 minutes.) 



6. The Teachers Needed in our Rural Schools. ('>() minutes.) 



GEO. G. GRCjFF w^as born on a farm in Chester county, Pa., in 1851; was edu- 

 cated in the public school, Treemount Seminary and Michigan University. 

 Taught in public school, West Chester State Normal School, and since 1879 

 In Bucknell University. Served in the Spanish-American War as Brigade Sur- 

 geon and unde"" the military government, was Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction in Porto Rico. Has been a member of the Pennsylvania State Board 

 of Health almost since its organization. Is engaged in fruit growing and ex- 

 perimental agriculture. Dr. Oroff has done murh institute work, lioth at 

 Teachers' and Farmers' Institutes. 



