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dairy stock, but devoting much of tlie 200-acre farm to the i)roduction of mixed 

 crops, suitable to that location and market. Tiiat he had been a success is attest- 

 ed by the fact that he has been a director in a national bank for many years, a 

 manager in one of the largest fire insurance companies in the State, and of a 

 building and loan association; served two terms in the State Legislature, as a 

 representative of the farming interests ; he has contributed acceptably from time 

 to time of his experience to the agricultural pi-ess, and in every way has kept in 

 the front among the most progressive of his locality, believing in higher education, 

 attractive country homes, and that success is the result of individual effort 

 and judgment. 



E. L. PHILLIPS was born on his father's farm in Clarion county, Pa. Was 

 educated in the common schools and a course in the High School at Reid Institute, 

 Pa. Since then he has studied extensively in agriculture. Was married in 1885, 

 after which he devoted his time to agriculture, owning and operating his 200 acre 

 farm with profit to himself. Said farm is in Clarion county, Pa. He has devoted 

 his farm chiefly to the production of fruits, live stock and grain suitable to that 

 location and market. He has been an experimenter with various plant foods. 

 His real estate holdings and commercial standing are a strong recommendation to 

 himself and to the farm. 



J P. PILLSBURY was born at Buena Vista, Ohio, in 1873. He was educated in 

 the common schools of that State and the High School of Newark, Ohio. By com- 

 petitive examination he secured a scholarship in the Missouri Botanical Gardens 

 and Shaw School of Botany, St. Louis, Mo., where he completed a full four years' 

 course of practical and scientific instruction in all branches of Horticulture. 

 After his graduation he became the head gardener of the Pennsylvania State Col- 

 lege and Experiment Station and was promoted to Assistant in Horticulture in 

 1898, which position he still holds. Mr. Pillsbury has had unexcelled opportuni- 

 ties for the study of the practical problems in horticulture and has written several 

 bulletins and reports of his experience with fruits at the Experiment Station. 



REV. B. MONROE I'OSTEN was born in Stroudsburg, Monroe county. Pa., edu- 

 cated in the public schools, and then attended business college in Newark, N. J. 

 Was bookkeeper for Thos. A. Edison and M. Goulds Son and Co. , the largest 

 buisiness of its kind in the world. He studied for the ministry, ordained in 1895, 

 and has been in pastorate ever since. Began raising fancy poultry, 1902, winning 

 over 500 premiuni^ at leading shows for excellence. AVrites for a number of 

 poultry and farm papers. Is president of borough council and president of board 

 of education in home town. He shipped poultry and eggs to every state and 

 Panama as well as Burma. 



R. F. SCHWARZ was born near Berlin, Germany, in 1853; educated in Ducal 

 Gymnasi and Ducal College , at Dessau. He came to New York in 1871 , removed 

 to Chicago in 1873, and in 1875 bought a farm in Monroe county, in this State, 

 where he has since followed the business of fruit growing and market gardening, 

 devoting at the present time about thirty acres to this pursuit. He was a member 

 of the House of Representatives two terms, 1893 and 1895. 



R. S. SEEDS was born in Huntingdon county, Pa., in 1852; was educated in the 

 public schools and at the Shade Gap Academy. He was raised upon a farm and 

 traveled for eighteen years among the farmers, selling agricultural implements. 

 JlQ 1892 he bought a farm that bad been run down, which he has greatly improved. 



