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5. Wlial I Know About Roads. (20 minutes.) 



6. Soil Improvement, the Keynote of Agriculture. (30 minutes.) 



7. Mistakes of Life Exposed. (E. L.) (60 minutes.) 



R. S. SEEDS was born in Huntingdon county, Pa., in 1852; was educated in 

 the public schools and at the Shade Gap Acadenfy. He was raised upon a 

 farm and traveled for eighteen years among the farmers, selling agricultural 

 implements. In 1892 he bought a farm that had been run down, which he has 

 greatly improved. 



SEXTON, HON. JASON, North Wales, Montgomery County, Pa.: 



1. What is Successful Farming. (20 minutes.) 



2. The Production of Lambs for Early Market. (20 minutes.) 



8. How Farming Can be Alade to Pay. (20 minutes.) 



4. Our Wasted Resources. (oO minutes.) 



5. How to Make the Dairy a Success. (30 minutes.) 



6. Why Farmers Should Encourage Road Improvement. (20 



minutes.) 



7. What the Farmer's Home and its Surroundings Should Be. 



(30 minutes.) 



JASON SEXTON was born in Schoharie county, N. Y., in 1834, and was edu- 

 cated in the public schools of his township. Worked upon his father's farm, 

 who always kept a dairy of from twenty-five to thirty-five cows, making both 

 butter and cheese; enlisted in the Union army in 1862, and served throughout 

 the war; upon retiring from the army he bought his father's farm of 200 

 acres, going in debt for two-thirds of the purchase money, and paying 

 7 per cent, interest. He continued the dairy, but in 1874 sold the farm, and 

 in 1876 moved to Montgomery county. Pa., where he now resides. He there 

 became manager of William M. Singerly's farms, comprising 825 acres of 

 land. He had charge of the breeding of several hundred registered Hol- 

 steins and Jerseys, Southdown sheep and Berkshire pigs, also feeding as many 

 as 125 eteers and from 800 to 1,000 sheep, besides milking a large dairy of 

 from 59 to 100 cows. 



STOUT, W. H., Pinegrove, Schuylkill County, Pa.: 



1. Fruit Growing. 



2. Experience in Draining Clay Bottom Land. 



3. Theory vs. Practice. 



4. Commercial Fertilizers and Compounds. 



5. W^asting Manure. 



6. Geological Observations. (30 minutes each.) 



W. H. STOUT was born October 18, 1840, in Dower Nazareth township, North- 

 ampton county, Pa.; was educated in the common schools and engaged in 

 various occupations, serving an apprenticeship at coopering and milling; also 

 as clerk and traveling salesman; has lived on his present farm for the past 

 twenty-seven years, and is engaged in general farming, trucking, fruit grow- 

 ing and bee-keeping; has acquired practical and scientific information by ob- 

 ■ervation and study; speaks English and German. 



