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4. A Talk with the Country Boys and Girls. (30 minutes.) 



5. Domestic Science. (30 minutes.) 



6. Food and Care of Babies. (30 minutes.) 



7. Country Butter; How to Make It. (20 minutes.) 

 WATTS, D. H., Kerrmoor, Clearfield County, Pa.: 



1. The Dairy Herd and Stable. 



2. The Feed and Care of the Dairy Herd. 



3. The Silo and Why Profitable. 



4. Gilt-edge Butter; How to Make and Sell It. 



5. The Apple Orchard and Its Care. 



6. The Soil, the Seed Bed and Plant. 



7. The Steam Engine as Used on our Farm. 



8. Farm Buildings and Blunders. 



9. The Farmer of the Future. (Evening Talk.) (30 minutes each.) 

 WAYCHOFF, G. B., Jefferson, Greene Coune, Pa.: 



1. Clover as a Soil Renovator. (40 minutes.) 



2. Uses of Lime in Agriculture. (45 minutes.) 



3. Berry Culture. (30 minutes.) 



4. Profitable Gardening. (30 minutes.) 



5. Soil Moisture. (30 minutes.) 



6. Value of Humus in Crop Growing. (30 minutes.) 



7. The Ideal Education. (Evening lecture.) (45 minutes.) 



8. A Study of Plant Roots, and Lessons Farmers should Learn from Them. 



(30 minutes.) 



WITTMAN, W. THEO., Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa.: 



1. Why Farmers in the Various Counties of the State are not Getting More 



Eggs. 



2. How to Get Bushels of Eggs Winter and Summer. (60 minutes.) 



3. Successful Adaptation of Correct Poultry-keeping Methods with General 



Farming. (40 minutes.) 



4. Fancy or Thoroughbred Poultry; How Sub-divided, Bred, Judged, and 



Exhibited. (Illustrated with living subjects.) (60 to 90 minutes.) 



5. Fine Fruit Growing in Connection with Poultry Culture. (60 minutes.) 



DEPARTMENT LECTURERS. 



In so far as time and circumstances will permit, the officers of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture are desirous of engaging in Institute work. 



In order to prevent disappointment in the arrangement of programs, it is 

 recommended that Institute Managers first consult the individual whose ser- 

 vices they may wish to secure, before placing his name on the program. 



Department lecutrers come to these Institutes free of charge, except that 

 they are to be taken from and to the railroad station at the expense of local 

 manager. The topics which they will discuss can be procured by addressing 

 the following officers of the Department of Agriculture: 



HON. N. B CRITCHFIELD, Secretary of Agriculture. 



HON. A. L. MARTIN, Deputy Secretary and Director of Institutes. 



JAMES FOUST, Dairy and Food Commissioner. 



PROF. H. A. SURFACE, Economic Zoologist. 



DR. LEONARD PEARSON, State Veterinarian. 



CROP l^EPORT. 



Whilst the past year was in many respects unfavorable to the growth of full 

 crops of many of the cereal and fruits, the price averaged higher than that of 

 any previous year within the last decade. Exceedingly late Spring made corn 

 planting two weeks later than usual. Cloudy and growing weather first two 

 weeks in September was unfavorable for maturing the crops. This condition 

 being followed about the 20th of September by a severe frost, injured much of 

 the corn in the roasting ear stage, this cutting the crop short more than 50 per 

 cent. Only a limited portion of the State was favored with apples on account 

 largely of severe freezing in the late winter and early spring; however the or- 

 chardists who by reason of careful cultivation and spraying to control insect 

 pests and fungus diseases changed to a considerable extent the conditions and 

 thus by careful management procured a fair crop which sold at remunerative 

 prices. 



