No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 45 



John L. Shawver, Belief ontaine, O. Emil Ulrich, Stroudsburg. 



Robert M. Simmers, Phoenixville. Prof. Geo. C. Watson, State College. 



W. C. Sloan, Sloan. jas. A. Waugh, Pittsburg. 



Wellington Smith, Mifflintown. S. M. Wherry, Shippensburg. 



T. B. Terry, Hudson, O. J. S. Woodward, Lockport, N. Y. 



Jacob Twining, Newtown. 



DEPARTMENT LECTURERS. 



PROF. JOHN HAMILTON, Secretary of Agriculture. 



HON. A. L. MARTIN, Director of Institutes. 



MAJOR LEVI WELLS, Dairy and Food Commissioner. 



BENJ. F. MacCARTNEY, Economic Zoologist. 



DR. J. T. ROTHROCK, Commissioner of Forestry. 



DR. LEONARD PEARSON, State Veterinarian. 



APPORTIONMENT FOR THE SEASON OF 1900-1901. 



In order that the boards of institute managers may have full infor- 

 mation in regard to the plans of the Department, as to the institute 

 work for the coming season, the following distribution of time for 

 holding institutes is presented. 



The apportionment shows the number of days that the Department 

 will furnish at least two lecturers to each county, for institute work 

 during the season of 1900-1901. It is made on the basis of two days 

 of institute, to every county having not over 1,000 farms; three days 

 to each connty having more than 1,000 and not over 1,500; after- 

 wards, one day for each 1,500 farms or fraction thereof additional. 

 This insures Department aid to each county, in proportion to its agri- 

 cultural interests. 



The State has been divided into five sections. A separate set of 

 lecturers will be assigned to each section, and in a given county, the 

 same Department workers will continue until all the institutes in 

 that county have been held. 



The amount of money to be distributed to the varions managers 

 for local expenses, will be according to the number of days of in- 

 stitutes held. In order to make the amount ample for the coming 

 season, the sum has been fixed at |12.50 per day of institute. This 

 provides |25.00 for each two days of institute, to be used for local 

 expenses, such as printing programmes, rent of halls, necessary ex- 

 penses of local managers, etc. 



