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DEPARTMENT LECTURERS. 



In so far as time and circumstances permit, the officers of tlie 

 Department of Agriculture are desirous of engaging in Institute 

 work. 



In order to prevent disappointment in tlie arrangement of pro- 

 grams, it is recommended that Institute Managers first consult 

 the individual whose services they may wish to secure before placing 

 his name on the program. 



Department lecturers come to these Institutes free of charge, ex- 

 cept that they are to be taken from and to the railroad station at 

 the expense of local manager. The topics which they will discuss 

 can be procured by addressing the following officers of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture: 



HON. N. B. CRITGHFIELD, Secretarv of Agriculture. 



HON. A. L. MARTIN, Deputv Secretarv and Director of Institutes. 



DR. B. H. WARREN, Dairv and Food Commissioner. 



PROF. H. A. SURFACE, Economic Zoologist. 



DR. LEONARD PEARSON, State Veterinarian. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THK INSTI- 

 TUTE Ive:cture)rs. 



S. F. BARBER was born in Union county, Pa., in 1855, was educated in the 

 public schools and worked upon a farm until he was twenty-one. He then 

 went into the mercantile business; 1877-8 was in the employ of the Buck 

 Mountain Coal Company, in Luzerne county, as general manager of their 

 company store, and in 1879-80 was in charge of the company store of the Stout 

 Goal Company. Afterwards traveled in the West, particularly in Colorado, 

 and then spent one year traveling for a dry g-oods Arm in Philadelphia. In 

 1881 he settled down to farming, and has been engaged in that business ever 

 since. His specialty is dairying-, althoug-h he raises the general crops usual 

 upon a Dauphin county farm. 



RICHARD D. BARCLAY was born Augnst 8, 1885, in Conshohocken, Pa.; at- 

 tended Haverford School 1897 to 1900; B. D. in Agriculture the Pennsylvania 

 State College 1905; assistant manager, estate and farm of Clement A. Griscom, 

 Haverford, Pa., 1905. Practical work in bee-keeping, beginning April 1899; 

 visted prominent bee-keepers in New England, 1903; traveled with Charles 

 Stewart, New' York State Bee Inspector, 1904; expert demonstrator United 

 'States Government Exhibit of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, 

 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904; secretary of the Pennsylvania State 

 College Natural History Club 1902 to 1904: pre.^ident, 1904-5; chairman execu- 

 tive committee of Pennsylvania State Bee-keepers' Association, 1904-5; mem- 

 ber of National Bee-keepers' Association, and Phile Bee-keepers' Association; 

 author of the Pennsylvania State College Correspondence Lessons on Bee- 

 keeping, (1904). Apiaries at Riverton, N. J.; Haverford and West Chester, Pa. 



DR. HARVEY B. BASHORE was born at West Pairview, Pa., July 31, 1864, 

 attended Harrisburg- Academy; graduated at Yale College 1886; graduated in 

 medicine at University of Pennsylvania 1889, and spent three years in New 

 York city studying hygiene and working in the various city hosiptals; since 



