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A. J. KAllLElt Wds born iu Hughesvillo, I'a., in 1S34 ; was educated in the public 

 schools and afterwards taught school iu his native county ; has always lived upon 

 a farm ; has tilled every local otUce in his township ; was a member of the Legis- 

 lature iu lyUl-lSLn; ; was president for six years of the County Agricultural So- 

 ciety ; is a member of the State Board of Agriculutre and has been identified with 

 most of the leading farm organizations of the State. 



KESTEK, R. P., was boru iu Clearfield county, I'a., January IS, 1SG7. lie now 

 resides on the farui which his maternal great grandfather "tuok-up" and partially 

 cleared nearly 100 years ago. it was farmed for 80 years iu the old way aud Ihe 

 fertility was depit'ted uutil it was one of the vvoru out" farms. During the past 

 few years Mr. l\esLer and his younger brother have been farmiug aud dairying by 

 modern uidhuds, uuiil now even live blades of grass grew where oue grew before. 

 Their leadiu^ busiue-ss is dairying, although fruit, poultry aud trucking receive at- 

 tentiou. iJc was for lo years a teacher and always a close student and by 

 learning from uihers aud by experiments is making the old homestead farm pay. 



J. H. LEDi' was born in Marion, Franklin county. Pa., August 3, 18G4, aud re- 

 ceived his education in the common schools of Guilford township aud at the Cham- 

 bersburg Academy. After leaving school he engaged in the mercantile business 

 for seven years at Marion and Waynesboro, Pa. In the spring of 18S9 he accepted 

 a position with S. Smucker and Co., wholesale grocers of Philadelphia. He re- 

 mained with this firm four years, when he was elected register and recorder of 

 Franklin county, after which he became half owuer and business manager of the 

 People's Register, of Chambersburg, and independent journal of large circulation. 

 He now owns and superintends 151 acres of apple trees, iulaid with peaches and 

 plums. Mr. Ledy is a practical fruit grower, who loves the work aud has turned 

 his whole attention to it. 



L. W. EIGHTY was born in York county. Pa., in 1857; attended the public schools 

 of his neighborhood ; afterward attended a select school in Adams county and then 

 taught school for seven winters. During this time he attended the York County 

 Academy one term aud also attend the State Normal School at Millersville. He 

 then kept store, but not liking the business, he got out of it, and started in the 

 poultry business, keeping both warket and fancy poultry, and engaged in bee- 

 keeping and the culture of small fruits. In 1893 he purchased the farm upon 

 which he now lives. The land was worn out and the buildings quite dilapidated. 

 He has improved this until it is now one of the best farms in his county. He has 

 a large library of standard books, keeps a selected dairy of cows, and has all the 

 modern improvements needed to equip a first-class farm. 



THOMAS I. MAIRS spent his early life upon a stock farm and graduated from the 

 College of Agriculture of the University of Missouri in 1896. He took graduate 

 work at the Michigan Agricultural College, the University of Illinois and the 

 University of Missouri. He was Superintendent of Field Experiments at the 

 University of Illinois in 1896-7, and Assistant in Agriculture at the University of 

 Missouri from 1897 to 1901. Since 1901 he has been connected with the Peun- 

 sylvania State College, as Assistant Superintendent of Correspondence Courses 

 and Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry. He has taught Dairy and Animal 

 Husbandry and has had charge of the experimental work along these lines. 



M. S. McDOWELL was born in Mifflin county, Pa.; attended the public schools, 

 and Lewistown Academy; entered Pennsylvania State College in 1888, and was 

 graduated in '92 ; after graduation was connected with a fertilizer manufacturing 

 establishment in Baltimore, and later came to the chemical department of the 

 Experiment Station, with which he has been connected for some years. 



