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there four years? So you see, the question of adding agriculture to 

 the Higli Schools is a serious one. Now, then, let us take the sum- 

 mer school, and we take a young man or young woman and give 

 them a year's German in six weeks. They do this every year, taking 

 a young man or young woman, and teaching them six weeks the 

 same thing on which they spend three hours a week for nine months. 

 Now, if it is possible to teach German in six weeks, it is also possible 

 to teach at least the outlines of agriculture in the same time, and 

 courses of study have been prepared to cover what would ordinarily 

 be covered in a year. We cannot expect to turn out a complete 

 agriculturist in six weeks, but we can at least create an interest 

 that will lead to further study, and impart the principles of soil and 

 plant life, which can then be taught in these schools during the next 

 term. 



Now, gentlemen, I have outlined briefly what has been done in 

 the first twenty-five years, and in reference to what is next, I would 

 merely suggest to you, as leaders in agriculture, three things, for 

 which, in my judgment, the time has come: 



First. The parcels post. 



Second. Spreading Experiment Station work to reach every por- 

 tion of the State, which means a movement for the study of forestry 

 and horticulture, improving the dairy conditions all over the State, 

 and the improvement of the farm and labor condition all over Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Third. The introduction of agriculture into our High Schools. 



Now, gentlemen, these are the first problems, and after we have 

 learned the solution of these, we are ready for what is next. 



THE LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE IMPROVEMENT 



OF LIVESTOCK. 



Bt Dh. Leonard Pbabson. State Veterinarian. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: The laws of Pennsylvania 

 relating to livestock are numerous and voluminous, and, when gath- 

 ered together would fill about three hundred pages, so, of course, 

 I can't take them in detail. 



Most of you know what the State Livestock Sanitary Board and 

 the Board of Agriculture have been doing for the last fifteen years 

 in this direction; but you do not know what the last Legislature 

 did with regard to certain proposals relating to domestic animals in 

 Pennsylvania, and with your permission, without saying anything 

 of old legislation. I will just refer to these new laws. 



Of all the great number of laws passed by the last diligent Legis- 

 lature, there are three that relate to domestic animals. First, the 

 Mclntyre bill relating to dogs. Those of you who were at Harris- 

 burg last winter, at the meeting of the State Board, will remember 

 the great interest that was shown there with regard to diminishing 

 the great number of worthless, homeless, ownerless dogs in Penn- 

 sylvania. A committee of the State Board of Agriculture was ap- 



