No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AO inCULTURE. 33 



HALL, llOKACE IL, Ji:ilisbiii'j,% Union County, Vn.: 



1. Docs llie Silo Pay? 



2. Two < ro|is a Year for llic Silo. 



3. Conient Stable Floors arc Econoiuic. 



'i. Strawberries for the Home and for ^Market. 



5. How to Seed for Permanent Pastnr^. 



G. Dynamite; Its Uses on the Farm and TTow to Handle H. 



7. Farmer Tele])hone Line; How to Build and Maintain One, 



8. A Neglected Study in our Schools. 



9. IToAv to Keep the Boys on tin? P^arni. 

 10. Our Greatest Duty as a Citizen. 



HORACE H. HALL, of the Triplet Oak Farm was born on a farm near Couders- 

 port, Potter county, Pa., in 1S53. He receh'ed most of his educatien in the 

 common scliools, though he attended the Emporium graded and the Couders- 

 port high schools for a limited time. He received his first teachers' certificate 

 when twenty and taug'ht in the schools of Potter county for twenty years, 

 mostly in the district schools, though he served as principal of the Galeton 

 and Oswayo graded schools. When not engaged in teaching he worked at 

 farming or in the lumber woods. At forty he turned his whole attention 

 to farming, having bought 114 acres of bark slashing and woods, which he 

 stocked with sheep while he was clearing and stumping, and in about ten 

 years he has logged and stumped fifty acres, built substantial farm build- 

 ings, changed from a sheepman to a successful dairymen, and is a large pro- 

 ducer of the finest strawberries. 



HANTZ, PKOF. J. M., I\rerrittstown, Fayette County, Pa.: 



1. Potato Culture. 



2. Money in Poultry. 



3. Til e Dairy Cow. 



4. Our Homes. 



5. How to Build up a Run-Down Farm. 



6. The True Idea of an Education. 



7. Tlie Growing of Strawberries, Raspberries and Blackberries. 

 S. Soil Moisture and Soil Culture. 



1). Hov/ to Grow a Grass Crop. 



PROP. J. M. HANTZ was born in .Westmoreland county in 1844; has had the 

 advantages of a thorough college training, and has been a professor in dif- 

 ferent academies, colleges and universities for years. Having been reared 

 on a farm and always feeling an interest in farm life, he has been, for the 

 last twelve years, actively engaged in farming In an intensive w^ay, follow- 

 ing a three year rotation. He is interested in dairying and has made the 

 dairy cow a special study; he has been a member of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture for many years and takes a deep Interest In agriculture. Having 

 thus had a practical knowledge of farm life since boyhood, he is prepared to 

 talk to farmers from real and scientific knowledge as well as from actual ex- 

 perience. 



3—6—1903 



