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then has bee npracticing medicine in West Fairview, a suburb of Harris- 

 burg; was appointed inspector for the State Board of Healtli, and is the author 

 ■of "Outline of Rural Hygiene." 



R. L. BEARDSLEE, of Warrenham, Pa., was born in 1835, received a liberal 

 academic education, and among the studies pursued was a course in "Prac- 

 tical Agriculture." He began farming for himself at twenty years of age, 

 as a dealer in cattle, and followed feeding and dealing in cattle until about 

 1864. He then included sheep in his stock business, and continued in this 

 until the western trade reduced the profits, when he began dairying and 

 put in forty cows. He has received as high as $1,000 for a single load of butter. 

 He rises from 1,600 to 1,800 bushels of grain each year, and sells about 1,000 

 pounds of washed wool and 150 lambs, annually, besides froni 1,000 to 1,200 

 bushels of potatoes. 



WM. C. BLACK was born on a farm in Mercer county; educated in the common 

 schools and at Westminster College; a soldier in the Civil War; a teacher in 

 the common schools and a farmer in his native county, raising general farm 

 crops and breeding Shorthorn cattle. He has been a successful exhibitor of 

 animals of his own breeding at the principal fairs in Western Pennsylvania. 

 He has been a diligent reader of the best farm and live stock journals, visited 

 some of the best farms and herds in the United States and Canada, and at- 

 tended the great live stock exhibits. 



M. S. BOND was born on a farm in Montour county, Pa., February 26, 1834; 

 lived and worked on a farm until eighteen years old, then taught school seven 

 years, then was employed as freight and passenger conductor for nine years, 

 and traveled as lost freight and car tracer and purchasing agent for the Dela- 

 ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company for Ave years. Has been 

 for over twenty-five years engaged in farming and market gardening; during a 

 part of this time, engaged in breeding and raising blooded Jersey cattle and 

 still keeps some of the best in the State; has made the raising of potatoes by 

 the thousands of bushels a specialty for twenty-five years; has been and is 

 now using more fertilizer to the acre than any man in his county, and is 

 now making gardening a specialty. 



C. W. BRODHEAD was born December 20, 1852, near White Haven, Luzerne 

 county. Pa. He received a common school education; commenced to work 

 in a horseshoeing and jobbing shop at 16 years of age; worked six years at 

 the business before he knew anything about a horse's foot; then began to 

 study anatomy and to dissect feet and legs, and has been a student of the 

 best authors and in actual practice ever since; has one of the best libraries on 

 animal and agriculture that can be had; is a registered specialist as a veteri- 

 nary dentist and in animal castrations. He divides his time in the shop, in 

 the care of a ten-acre vegetable garden, and reading for general information; 

 takes great interest in farmers' organizations, trying to elevate their calling. 



J. S. BURNS was born February 22, 1847, on the farm he now owns, near 

 Clinton, Pa. His farther died when he was seven years old, and from that 

 time nutil he was twenty-one he worked upon the farm as hired help, receiving 

 his board and clothing, and attending the public schools in the winter. His 

 education received a brief finish at Linnean Academy, at Clinton. He wa.s 

 married when twenty-one, and soon after bought out the other heirs, and 

 from the farm made the money that eventually paid for it. He has kept 

 strict account of every item of income and expense since he was twenty-one 

 years old, and to this habit of careful accounting he attributes much of his 

 success. He has had large experience in the breeding and care of all lines 

 'Of farm stock, but during recent years has given more special attention to 

 the breeding of Poland-China swine, and raising mutton lambs, together 

 with the growing of all the different crops usually raised on a Western Penn- 

 sylvania farm. He has had considerable experience as a correspondent upon 

 agricultural topics, and for a numher of years has taken an active part In 

 the Institute work of this State. 



GEORCE C. BUTZ was born in 1863, in New Castle, Pa. His father was a nur- 

 seryman and florist. His education consisted of a common, though excel- 

 lent, public school, and later of a course through the high school. After this 

 he was graduated from the Pennsylvania State College, in the class of '83. 

 This was followed by post-graduate studies, and two years' experience in the 

 fruit districts of Southern California. Since 1887 he has had charge of the 

 horticultural work at the Pennsylvania State College and the State Experi- 

 ment Station.. For the past five years he has been one of the regular lec- 

 turersi upon the State Institute force. 



J. T. CAMPBELL was born in Springhill township, Fayette county. Pa., Decem- 

 ber 18, 1872; is the son of a prominent farmer; received his early education 

 in the public schools of his native district; left the public schools with a 



