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«. CLOVEK AS FEED, AND HOW TO CUHE. (30 minutes.) 

 Its feeding value for different purposes, musole, milk, eggs, 

 wool. How to cut and cure. 



7. ALFALFA. (40 minutes.) 



Its high value. Experiment Station reports. How to pro 

 duce it. 



8. THE CLOA^ERS AS FERTILIZERS. (40 minutes.) 



The great problem of restoring fertility. Wealth of Pennsyl- 

 vania soils in the mineral elements of fertility. How clover 

 makes them available. How to produce them. Some new 

 and well-tried methods. 



9. STOCK FEEDING. (30 minutes.) 



What is a balance ration? No cast-iron rules. Different 

 things to be kept in view. Product to be produced. Health 

 of the animal. Cost of feed. By-product of the stable. 



10. STRAWBERRY CULTURE. (30 minutes.) 



Value. The soil and its preparation. Plants and how to ob- 

 tain them. Setting, cultivation, mulching, burning and sab- 

 sequent cultivation of varieties. 



11. HOME HYGIENE. (Evening lecture.) (30 minutes.) 



The vital center. Observations in medical practice. Econom- 

 ical and eificient heating and ventilating. The water supply 

 of the countrv home. 



12. IMPORTANCE OF NATURE STUDIES IN OUR PUBLIC 



SCHOOLS. (Evening lecture.) (40 minutes.) 

 The errors of ascetism. Art vs. Nature. Elevation of child- 

 hood. Needed reform in the school. How accomplished. 



TOWER, DR. E. E., Hop Bottom, Susquehanna County, Pa.: 



1. INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF FARM ANIMALS. (30 min 



utes.) 

 Anthrax. How herds become infected. How disease is car- 

 ried to other herds. Duration of disease. Danger to man by 

 handling or skinning animals that have died with the disease. 



2. TUBERCULOSIS. (30 minutes.) 



Cause. Symptoms. How transmitted from animal to animal 

 and from herd to herd. How to know this from other dis- 

 eases. Danger of infection. Tuberculin test. How used. 



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3. RABIES. (30 minutes.) 



History. Distribution. Animals affected. Cause of the dis- 

 ease. Method of invasion. Danger from bites. Period of 

 incubation. Erroneous ideas concerning rabies. 



4. GLANDERS. (30 minutes.) 



History. Distribution. Cause, Symptoms. Duration of 

 disease. Farcy and glanders are one and the same, only in 

 a different form. Every owner of a horse should know some- 

 thing of the disease. How transmitted. 



5. THE HORSE IN DISEASE AND HEALTH. (40 minutes.) 

 The normal condition. Sanitary condition of stables. Pure air 



and light govern the health, condition and value of the horse. 

 Feed and water at the proper time. 



