No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 45 



STUAKT, K: K., CalU'iisbui-fi:, Clarion County, Pa.: 



1. Kaising Swine for Profit. (20-30 minutei.) 



2. Dairy Bacteriology. (30-40 minutes.) 



3. Sheep Husbandry. (25 minutes.) 



4. Shall "NVe Educate the Farm Boy. (30 minutes.) 



5. Centralization of Township Schools. (45 minutes.) 



6. The Home and the School. (30 minutes.) 



7. The Advantages of a Scientiiic Education to the Farmer. (30 



minutes.) 



8. Fruit Culture for Home and for Market. (30-40 minutes.) 



9. Stable Manure. (20 minutes.) 

 10. Life; \Miat is it. (50-60 minutes.) 



SURFACE, PROF. H. A., Economic Zoologist, Harrisburg, Pa.: 



1. The Economic Value and Protection of Our Native Birds. 



(40-50 minutes.) , - 



2. Greneral Principles and Methods of Insect Warfare. (Illus- 



trated.) 



3. The Hessian Fly in Pennsylvania. (Sometimes illustrated 



by lanterns.) 



4. Nature Study and Agriculture in the Public Schools. (25- 



30 minutes.) 



5. The Centralization of Schools. (20 minutes.) 



6. Higher Education for Farmers' Boys and Girls. (15-20 



minutes'.) 



7. The Elements of Success. -(15 minutes.) 



HARVEY ADAM SURFACE, M. S., Economic Zoologist, was born on a farm in 

 Warren county, O., in 1867. He worked on the farm and attended and taught 

 country school. He was educated in the Lebanon (O.) Normal, the Ohio State 

 University, the University of Illinois, Hopkins (Stanford) California Seaside 

 Laboratory and Cornell University. He taught in the Ohio State University, 

 the University of the Pacific, Cornell, the Ithaca schools, teachers' institutes 

 and the Pennsylvania State College. He held a fellowship in Cornell and waa 

 also appointed Dykman Research Fellow in Columbia University. He was 

 field naturalist for the Illinois State Biological Station and University Exten- 

 sion lecturer in New York. He has also been lecturer in Zoology at the West 

 Coast Chautauqua Assembly and scientific assistant on the United States 

 Fish Commission. He has taught in every known grade of school work, and 

 is noted for his enthusiasm and ability as a teacher, speaker and writer. He 

 is ornithologist of the Pennsylvania State Board of Agi-iculture, and is making 

 investigations of insects for the Pennsylvania State Department of Agricul- 

 ture and fishes for the Pennsylvania State Fish Commission. Among his 

 writings are articles on nature study, zoology, mollusks, insects, fishes, 

 birds, mammals, pedagogy, anatomy, etc. He is nature study editor of the 

 "Popular Educator," ornithological editor of "American Gardening," member 

 of the American Society of Naturalists, American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, the American Ornithologists' Union, the Pennsylvania 

 State Audubon Society, etc. He makes a specialty of the biologic and economic 

 features of his subjects. He was appointed Economic Zoologist by Governor 

 Pennypacker in 1903. 



