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borough. Here he has combined the business of market gardening and the 

 growing of pure bred poultry with marked success. The annual income from 

 his thirteen acre farm exceeding the income of the majority of farms ten times 

 as large. 



J. T. CAMPBELL was born in Springhill township, Fayette county, Pa., Decem- 

 ber 18, 1872; is a son of a prominent farmer; received his early education 

 in the public schools of his native district; left the public schools with a 

 more than average education, and at once took up the study of agriculture 

 at home, while working on his father's farm; he studied carefully all leading 

 books and journals of his day. Married in 1894, aud took up gardening and 

 poultry culture, and was successful from the start. When the Pennsylvania 

 State College started its Correspondence Courses in Agriculture he took up the 

 work and has since pui'sued same with diligence. Owns a large farm in 

 Crawford county, upon which he has worked out many important agi'icultural 

 problems. In poultry culture he has been especially successful, having made 

 it a subject of special study, together with soil physics. Keeps in close touch 

 with the State Experiment Station and the National Department of Agri- 

 culture ; has written some for various agricultural and poultry journals. 



DR. MILTON E. CONARD was born in Southern Chester county in 1851, of an 

 ancestry of sucessful agriculturists. He obtained his education in the Public 

 and High schools and Millersville State Normal School. He was for some 

 years engaged in farming in his home locality ; later taking the course in vet- 

 erinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1891, in 

 which institution he has for several years been lecturer of Dairy and Milk 

 Inspection and Veterinary Obstetrics. Throughout his veterinary career he 

 has been closely identified with dairy interests, practising for some years in 

 a dairy locality, and having for over ten years given his entire time as inspec- 

 tor and Consulting Expert for a large number of the dairies furnishing milk 

 to the City of Philadelphia from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and 

 Delaware. 



M. N. CLARK was born near Export, Westmoreland county, Pa., July IG, 1848; 

 received a good common school education, with several , years at an academy 

 and a full course at Duff's Commercial College, , at Pittsburg; has always 

 taken an active delight in farming; is a close observer, and for many years has 

 taken an active interest in agricultural affairs of his county ; the cause of 

 education has always found in him an earnest supporter ; has been engaged 

 in general farming from boyhood, except a few years spent in selling imple- 

 ments ; was several seasons in the fruit growing regions of the South , and there 

 gained much information in the use of commercial fertilizers and fruit growing; 

 was a member of the State Board of Agriculture for ten years, and at present 

 is looking after the interest of his farm. 



JOHN W. COX was born near New Wilmington, Lawrence county, Pa., December 

 27, 18G8 ; received a common school education and completed a course at Duff's 

 Commercial College, Pittsburgh; has spent all his life upon the farm; is a breeder 

 of Jersey cattle and Barred Plymouth Rock and Rhode Island Red poultry ; 

 wheat, oats, corn, hay and potatoes are his principal crops. He is employed 

 part of the time by the Division of Zoology, Department of Agriculture of Penn- 

 sylvania as a Orchard Inspector, 



