ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



MEETING OF FARMERS' ANNUAI, NORMAL 

 INSTITUTE, NEW CASTLE, PA. 



PROGRAM. 



First session, Tuesday Evening, May 26, 1908. 

 MR. SAMUEL. McCREARY, Volant, Pa., Chairman. 

 Call to order 7.30. 

 Address of Welcome by Hon. W. E. Porter, Judge of the Courts, New Castle, 



Pa. 

 Response, by Hon. N. B. Critchfield, Secretary of Agriculture, Harrisburg, 

 Pa. 

 I. "NEW PLANS OF SOIL INVESTIGATION." 



Dr. Thomas F. Hunt, State College, Pa. 



Wednesday Morning, May 27, 1908. 

 MR. H. M. GOODERHAM, Patton, Pa., Chairman. 

 Call to order 9.00. 



1. "VETERINARY SANITARY WORK." 



Dr. Louis A. Klein, Deputy State Veterl- 

 , narian. Department of Agriculture, 



Harrisburg, Pa. 



2. "SOIL RESOURCES AND THEIR UTILIZATION." 



Prof. M. Earl Carr, Bureau of Soils, U. 

 S. Dept. of Agrl., Washington, D. C. 



3. "THE ACRE AND THE MARKET." 



Dr. J. D. Detrich, Dean of Agricul- 



I 



ture, Scranton Correspondence 



School, Scranton, Pa. 



Wednesday Afternoon, May 27, 1908. 

 MR. W. C. BLACK, Mercer, Pa., Chairman. 

 Call to order 1.30. 



1. "SOME ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES IN THE PRACTICE OF MARKET 



GARDENING." 

 ^ Prof. R. L. Watts, State College, Pa. 



2. "FRUIT RAISING IN PENNSYLVANIA, PAST AND FUTURE." 



Dr. J. H. Funk, Boyertown, Pa. 



3. "WHY WE GET POOR HATCHES, WEAK STOCK AND DISAPPOINT- 



MENT MOSTLY OUT OF OUR POULTRY." 

 ; W. Theo. Wittman, Allentown, Pa. 



