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lows: The Dairy Township Farmers' Club, Westmoreland county, 

 Scenery Hill Hij^h School, Scenery Hill, Pa. ; Shearersburg High 

 School, Shearersburg, I*a. ; Agricultural and Horticultural Society 

 of Lebanon county, Lebanon, I'a. ; Pleasant Hill Grange, Gratz, Pa. ; 

 Corn Growers' Association, West Chester, l*a. ; also attending 

 County Fairs with soil exhibits. The above are a few of the hun- 

 dreds of public meetings attended, which space will not allow us to 

 itemize. 



Dr. M. E. Conard and L. W. Lighty, Farm Advisers on Dairying 

 and Animal Husbandry, visited" every county in the State, reaching 

 over 1,200 farmers; about one-half the farmers holding family meet- 

 ings for their neighbors to procure information during the replan- 

 ning of farm operations, remodeling and improving farm buildiiiirs, 

 facilitating the marketing of products and urging the organization 

 of cow testing associations were thoroughly advised. Also planning 

 dairy barns for over 3,000 head of cows, together with silos, etc., 

 working out plans for same, advising concrete construction upon 

 the farm, serving as expert judges on livestock at many of the 

 County Fairs and agricultural exhibits of the State. 



Mrs. Jean Kane Foulke, Farm Adviser on Home Sanitation and 

 Household Economics, has been earnestly working among the farm- 

 ers' wives and has reached almost every part of the State witli her 

 demonstrations and lectures, demonstrating with her equipment, 

 model beds, model yards, model bedrooms, model septic tank for 

 sewerage in the rural homes, model garments for w^omen and chil- 

 dren, washing machines and other household equipment that will 

 help the farmers' wife, the benefits of which cannot be estimated. 



When we realize that the Department of Agriculture has received 

 over 1,500 commendable letters thanking them for assistance ren- 

 dered in supplying Advisers, which have saved the farmers of the 

 State thousands of dollars, you can readily appreciate that this 

 Bureau of the work is reaching the place among the educational 

 forces in agriculture. 



Our Annual Normal Institute was held at Conneaut Lake, May 25- 

 27, 1915. This meeting was attended not only by Managers of In- 

 stitutes in the various counties of the State, and practically all 

 State Lecturers, but representatives of agricultural societies, local 

 Granges, Farmers' Clubs and Farm Bureaus, and was the means of 

 unifying much of the instruction given by the lecturers this year. 

 Not only so, but great encouragement was given our lecturers in 

 the work of developing greater thoughtfulness among the farmers 

 of the State. 



Herewith please find program which reveals, in a more condensed 

 form, the subjects that were so tlioroughly discussed by competent 

 instructors at this meeting. 



