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extent and it is our purpose to arrange for meetings at points of this 

 kind and explain to the people just what they should do to over- 

 come these conditions and bring this rich river bottom land into a 

 good state of cultivation. In water supply he has been called to a 

 number of farms and found conditions demanding different recom- 

 mendations, some needing gravity systems at a small cost and some 

 at a considerable cost; others could use the hydraulic ram and still 

 others have to use either a gas pump or windmill with storage tank, 

 also giving advice along sanitary sewerage. 



Mr. Sheldon W. Funk, Farm Adviser on Market Gardening and 

 Fruits, has worked in 46 counties of the State, making from one to 

 twenty-seven different visits to a county, having made 550 visits to 

 individual farms, and in each case gave the farmer practical advice 

 that he was desirous of gaining. He attended 50 agricultural meet- 

 ings and demonstrations, and addressed 22,000 people at said meet- 

 ings, and attended eight County Fairs judging fruit and vegetables. 

 At these meetings he would go over the entire orchard demonstrat- 

 ing the proper methods of preparing the soil, of setting and pruning 

 the trees or of spraying and thinning the fruit. In other cases he 

 would go through a well cared for orchard and then through a neg- 

 lected orchard calling attention to the beneficial results of fertilizers, 

 of tillage or of mulch or, again, showing the results of injury from 

 insects and diseases. 



The briefness of this report prevents us from entering into detail 

 upon his line of work. However, we would mention such men who 

 are extensively engaged in horticulture and who look to Mr. Funk 

 for expert advice along his special line, i. e., E. L. Cressmen, Quaker- 

 town, Pa.; Dr. H. Walters, Spring Mount, Pa.; John McGowan and 

 Ambrose Slichter, Elverson, Pa.; Edward Leinhard, Mauch Chunk, 

 Pa. ; William B. Farrell, Frankford, Pa. ; and D. J. Engle, Beaver, 

 Pa., as T\'ell as many other farmers of the State. The above named 

 gentlemen are splendid farmers, but, as above stated, look to Mr. 

 Funk to keep them posted on fruit and market gardening develop- 

 ment. 



W. Theo. Wittman and J. T. Campbell, Farm Advisers on Poul- 

 try, have visited every county in the State, having more applications 

 than they could fill, giving attention to 1,500 calls. The personal 

 calls have covered every phase of poultry husbandry and poultry 

 keeping from showing a man how to set a hen or run an incubator 

 or select his stock to equipping a large commercial plant and putting 

 same on a paying basis; also lecturing before poultry organizations 

 and other agricultural meetings with an attendance at these meet- 

 ings of over 50,000 people. Mr. Wittman is especially at home as 

 judge of poultry, and in this capacity attended fourteen different 

 Fairs within the State, furnished plans and selected sites for poul- 

 try plants. Amongst the largest public institutions visited are as 

 follows: Masonic Home, Elizabethtown, Pa.; Odd Fellows Orphan- 

 age, Sunburv, Pa. ; Cheney Training School for Teachers, Cheney, 

 Pa. 



Prof. Franklin Menges and Mr. J. T. Campbell, Farm Advisers on 

 Soils, visited quite a number of farms and addressed public meet- 

 ings. Prof. Menges was kept quite busy during the summer months 

 judging at County Fairs, farmers' picnics, etc., the benefits of which 

 cannot be estimated. A few of the meetings addressed are as fol- 



