No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. " 49 



B. H. WAYCHOFF was born and raised on a farm; was educated in public 

 sciiools, and attended Monongahela College, graduating in tiie scientific course. 

 Taught several years in public schools; also taught in Monongahela College, 

 in Beaver College and in Beaver High School, and has had considerable experi- 

 ence in public speaking'. At the age of 23 he bought a poor and almost aban- 

 doned farm, and by drainage, liming and raising clover, together with good 

 tillage, it has been brought up to a good degree of productiveness. 



There were lield, in all, of what may be termed regular scheduled 

 institutes, oiJT days. These meetings were sub-divided into thirty- 

 one institutes of one dav each, and seventy two-dav institutes, and 

 two three-day institutes, or two two-day institutes with sessions con- 

 tinued for three days. In addition to the regular schedule, there 

 were held twentj'-one special meetings, in which the Division of In- 

 stitutes joined with the pomona granges, farmers' unions and clubs 

 in what may be properly termed special or local institutes. 



These 327 days were sub-divided into 831 sessions. The average 

 attendance upon ea«h of these sessions was 150, or a total of 123,- 

 384. We expended, last .year, in the employment of instructors, for 

 hall rents, hotel and traveling expenses and incidentals, in 

 all. $L5,000. We employed, last 3 ear, in all, fifty-two State speakers 

 or instructors. Associated with these instructors in the different 

 counties of the State where institutes are held is a vast army of 

 local institute workers, who read papers on the various lines of 

 farm w^ork, joined in the discussion of topics, and have thus become 

 a mighty force in the development of the work within the bounds 

 of the State. The one new line of work, only partially inaugurated, 

 is the sending of specialists in the line of the leading agricultural 

 industries as carried on in the State to give special instructions as 

 to management of the dairy, handling of milk, ventilation of the 

 barn, etc.; also, in horticultural lines, mixing of spraying material 

 and how to use it, demonstrating the difference between insects and 

 fungous diseases, and how to apply the remedies suited to each. 

 Special mention should be made of the work accomplished in this 

 line by Prof. H. A. Surface, Economic Zoologist of this Department, 

 who has devoted much of his time in attending these meetings and 

 giving valuable instruction to the farmers on topics above men- 

 tioned. I am pleased to say that in so far as we have advanced in 

 this line of instruction, results have been entirely satisfactory. 



This report would be incomplete without making mention of our 

 Annual Meeting of Institute Managers and Lecturers, held at Hunt- 

 ingdon, Pa., June 2, 3 and 4, which meeting may be fairly regarded 

 as representing the topics and standard of work embraced in our 

 general institute plan. The proceedings of this meeting are pub- 

 lished in bulletin form, three thousand of which have been distrib- 

 uted throughout the State, and the same will be found inserted in 

 another part of this volume. 



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