Official Document, No. 6. 



ANNUAL RKPORT 



OF THE 



SECRETARY OF AGRICIILTIIRE. 



Harrisburg, Pa., January i, 1903. 

 Hon. WILLIAM A. STONE, Governor of Pennsylvania : 



Sir: In compliance with the requirements of Sections 2, 3 and 6 of 

 the act of Legislature of March 13th, 1S95, establishing this Depart- 

 ment, I have the honor to present herewith my Annual Report 

 for the year 1902, being the Eighth Annual Report of the Department 

 of Agriculture of Pennsylvania. 



The act creating the Department declares how it shall be organized 

 and defines the scope of its work. The Department has now had 

 eight years of existence, and its work has increased from a mere 

 beginning to its present proportions, extending its influence to all 

 parts of the State, and to dealing with agriculture in all of its 

 relations to the farmer, and to the educational and commercial in- 

 terests that affect his calling. Whilst the amount of work done, 

 and to be done, increases continually, yet as the officers of the De- 

 partment gain in experience and information, they are able, with 

 the same effort, to accomplish much more each succeeding year. 



The time ought never to arrive when the operations of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture of Pennsylvania will fall into mere routine. 

 Its officers are dealing, face to face, with- powerful living forces, 

 many of whose operations are as yet imperfectly understood, but 

 which are never ceasing in their activity, and affect for good or ill 

 the interests of agriculture, and often increase or diminish its pro- 



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