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A. AV. STEPHENS was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., and received College 

 training in this State, after which he went to Cornell University and was gradu- 

 ated from there in Agriculture in 1900. For eight years he managed a successful 

 co-operation store and while at Cornell made a special study of co-operation 

 among fruit growers. At present he is an Orchard Instructor for the Division 

 of Zoology. 



W. H. STOUT was born October IS, 1840, in Lower Nazareth township, North- 

 ampton county. Pa. ; was educated in the common schools and engaged in various 

 occupations, serving an apprenticeship at coopering and milling, at clerkship and 

 traveling salesman; has lived on his present farm for the past twenty-eight years, 

 and is engaged in gei^i'^l farming, trucking, fruit growing and bee-keeping; has 

 acquired practical and scientific information by observation and study ; speaks 

 English and German. 



HARVEY ADAM SURFACE, M. S. , Economic Zoologist, was born on a farm in 

 Warren county, Ohio, in 1867. He worked on the farm and attendee! and tiu-ht 

 country school. He was educated in the Lebanon (Ohio) Normal, ih > (Hiio St te 

 University, the University of Illinois, Hopkins (Stanford) California Seaside 

 Laboratory and Cornell University. He taught in the Ohio State LTniversity, the 

 University of the Pacific, Cornell, the Ithaca schools, teachers' institutes and the 

 Pennsylvania State College. He held a fellowship in Cornell and was also ap- 

 pointed Dykman Research Fellow in Columbia University. He was field natural- 

 ist for the Illinois State Biological Station and University Extension lecured in 

 New York. He has also been lecturer in Zoology at the West Coast Chautauqua 

 Assembly and scientific assistant on the United States Fish Commission. He has 

 taught in every known grade of school work, and is noted for his enthusiasm and 

 ability as a teacher, speaker and writer. He is ornithologist of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State Board of Agriculture, and is making investigations of insects for the 

 Pennsylvania State Department of Agriculture and of fishes for the Pennsyl- 

 vania State Fish Commission. Among his writing are articles on nature study, 

 zoology, mollusks, insects, fishes, birds, mammals, pedagogy, anatomy, etc. He 

 is nature study editor of the "Popular Educator," ornithological editor of 

 "American Gardening," member of the American Society of Naturalists, American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Ornithologists, Union, 

 the Pennsylvania State Audobon Society, etc. He makes a specialty of the 

 biologic and economic features of his subjects. He was appointed Economic Zo- 

 ologist by Governor Pennypacker in 1903, and re-appointed by Governor Stuart 

 in 1907. 



PROF. H. E. VAN NORMAN is a native of Ontario, Canada, and is now 36 years 

 of age. He grew up on farms in Nebraska, Illinois and Michigan, and early 

 became acquainted with pure bred livestock through his father's association with a 

 large importer and exhibitor of Holstein sattle and English draft horses, and by 

 attendance at the old Chicago Fat Stock Show. Was appointed Farm Superin- 

 tendent at Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, Lafayette, Ind. ; 

 after four years in this work he was appointed Professor of Dairy Husbandry, 

 Pennsylvania State College of Agriculture, which position he now holds. 



MRS. MARY A. WALLACE is a daughter of the late Chester W. Ballon, Esq., 

 one of the most successful and progressive of the pioneer farmers of Lawrence 

 county. Pa. She was educated in the public schools and Beaver Seminary, 

 Beaver, Pa., and previous to her marriage taught school in her home district. 



