No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 49 



SEEDS, R. S., Birmingham, Huntingdon County, Pa.: 



1. Value of Fertility and Cheapest Way to Get It. (30-40 min- 



utes.) 



2. What Constitutes a Country Home. (30-40 minutes.) 



3. Education and the Farmer. (30 minutes.) 



4. Benefits Derived from Farmers' Institutes. (20 minutes.) 



5. What I Know About Roads. (20 minutes.) 



6. Soil Improvement, the Keystone of Agriculture. (30 minutes.) 



7. Mistakes of Life Exposed. (E. L.) (60 minutes.) 



SEXTON, HON. JASON, North Wales, Montgomery County, Pa.: 



1. Our Wasted Resources. (30 minutes.) 



2. How to Make the Dairy a Success. (30 minutes.) 



3. How to Make the Farm Pay. (30 minutes.) 



4. What the Farmer's Home and Surroundings Should Be. (30 



minutes.) 



STOUT, W. H., Pinegrove, Schuylkill County, Pa.: 



1. Fruit Growing. 



2. Experience in Draining Clay Bottom Land. 



3. Theory vs. Practice. 



4. Commercial Fertilizers and Compounds. 



5. Wasting Manure. 



6. Geological Observations. (30 minutes each.) 



STUART, R. R., Callensburg, Clarion County, Pa.: 



1. Raising Swine for Profit. (30-40 minutes.) 



2. Dairy Bacteriology. (30 minutes.) 



3. Sheep Husbandry. (40 minutes.) 



4. Shall We Educate the Farm Boy? (30 minutes.) 



5. Centralization of Township Schools. (40 minutes.) 



6. The Home and the School. (30 minutes.) 



7. The Advantages of a Scientific Education to the Farmer. (30 



minutes.) 



8. Fruit Culture for the Home and for Market. (50-60 minutes.) 



9. Stable Manure. (40 minutes.) 



10. Life— What Is It? (E. L.) (60 minutes.) 



11. The Farmer's Wife and Family. (45 minutes.) 



SURFACE, PROF. H. A., Economic Zoologist, Harrisburg, Pa.: 



1. The Economic Value and Protection of Our Native Birds. (40 



50 minutes.) 



2. General Principles and Methods of Insect Warfare. (40 min- 



utes.) 



3. The Hessian Fly in Pennsylvania. (30 minutes.) 



4. Our Insect Friends. (Illustrated.) (30-40 minutes.) 



5. Nature Study and Agriculture in the Public Schools. (25-30 



minutes.) 



6. The Centralization of Schools. (20 minutes.) 



4—6—1905 



