No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTL' l{E. 31) 



^r(■I)o^^■!^LL. I'uor. ^r. s.. sinto (\)ii('<iv. ('cuti-c c'oiiniy. v-a.-. 



1. ('oiiiiiiciM i;il l''ci-(ili/.t'i-s. 



2. Lime and I Is Ad ion. « 

 :i. Soil Moist iii-c. 



4. F»ani.v.'U'(l IMannrc. 

 .1. Wliy Educate. 



M. S. McDowell, u^s born in MifTlin county, Pa.; attended the public schools, 

 and Lewistown Academy; entered Pennsylvania State College in 1888, and 

 was graduated in '92; after graduation was connected with a fertilizer manu- 

 facturing establishment in Baltimore, and later came to the chemical depart- 

 ment of tlie Experiment Station, with which he has been connected four y^ars. 



:McV\ILLIAMS, 1). ]{., I'ort Eoyal, Juiiiala County, Pa.: 



1. Manure and Fertilizers; Tlieir Value and Applioalion. 



2. How I'lants Feed and How to Feed Them. 



3. Education Through Organization. 



4. The Ideal. 



5. How the Natural Agencies Help the Farmers. 

 C. The Ship that Passed in the Night. (Evening.) 



MENGES, PEOF. FRANKLIN, York, York County, Pa.: 



1. The Advantages of a Knowledge of Chemistrj^ to the Farmei-. 



2. Fixation of Free Nitrogen Explained. 



3. Nitrification; Conditions Necessary to Produce It. 



4. The Maintenance of Soil Moisture. 



5. Methods for the (Cultivation of Hay anVl Leguminous Crojis. 



G. The Functions of the Various Foods Necessary to Plant 

 Growth. 



7. The Feeding Powers and Habits of Some Agricultural Plants. 



8. The Necessity of Education for the Farmer Compared with 



Other Vocations. 

 !). A'alue of Our Native Birds to the Farmer. 

 10. Insect Friends and Foes of the Farmer. (20-30 minutes each.) 



PROF. FRANKLIN MENGES, Ph. D., was born forty-four years ago at 

 Menges' Mill, York county, Pa.; the first nineteen years of his life were spent 

 on his father's farm, with all the ardour that farming meant in those days; he 

 then began a course of preparation for college at the Baugher Academy, Han- 

 over, Pa., and entered and graduated from Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, 

 with the class of 188(5; was immediately tendered and accepted the position of 

 assistant professor of chemistry in his alma mater, which position he held 

 until 1896, when he came to York and took the professorship of the sciences in 

 the York high school, which position he now holds; received the degree of Ph. 

 D. from his alma mater for special work in chemistiy, mineralogy and physics. 

 He has for years been a student of the "Experiment Station Record," and 

 has continued an interest in practical agriculture, and has lectured before 

 Farmers' Institutes. 



