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more than average education, and at once took up the study of agriculture 

 at home, while working on his father's farm: he studied carefully all leading 

 books and journals of his day. Married in 1894, and took up gardening and 

 poultry culture, and was successful from the start. When the Pennsylvania 

 State College started its Correspondence Course in Agriculture he took up the 

 work and has since pursued same with diligence. Owns a large farm in 

 Crawford county, upon which he has worked out many important agricultural 

 problems. In poultry culture he has been especially successful, having made 

 it a subject of special study, together with soil physics. Keeps in close touch 

 with the State Experiment Station and the National Department of Agri- 

 culture; has written some for various agricultural and poultry journals. 



M. N. CLARK was born near Export, Westmoreland county. Pa., July 16, 1848; 

 received a good common school education, with several years at an academy 

 and a full course at Duff's Commercial College, at Pittsburg; has always 

 taken much delight in farming; is a close obseiwer, and for many years has 

 taken an active interest in agricultural affairs of his county; the cause of 

 education has always found in hirn an earnest supporter; has been engaged 

 in general farming from boyhood, exceipt a few years spent in selling imple- 

 ments; was several seasons in the fruit-growing regions of the South, and 

 there gained inuch information in the use of commercial fertilizers and fruit 

 growing; has been a member of the State Board of Agriculture for eight years, 

 and at present is looking after the interesit of his farm. 



W1ELLS W. COOKE was born in Massachusetts and educated at the public 

 schools, the University of Iowa, Ripon College, Ripon, Wis., where he gradu- 

 ated in 1879, and the University of Vermont, in which latter institution 

 he took a post-graduate course in chemistry. Had charge for four years 

 of industrial farm schools in the V/est, and in 1886 was appointed professor 

 of agriculture of the University of Vermont and director of the Vermont 

 Experiment Station, holding both positions until 1893. During this time, for 

 six years, had charge of the organizing and conducting of the Farmers' 

 Institutes of the State. From 1893 to 1900 was professor of agriculture of the 

 Colorado Agricultural College. The past th^ee years has been connected with 

 •work of the Correspondence Course in Agriculture at the Pennsylvania State 

 College. 



JOHN W. COX was born near New Wilmington, Lawrence county, Pa., De- 

 cember 27, 1868; received a common school education and a course at Duff's 

 Commercial College, Pittsburg; has spent all his life on the farm; is a breeder 

 of Jersey cattle on his 200-acre farm, besides Barred Plj-mouth Rock poultry. 

 Wheat, oats, corn, hay and potatoes are his principal crops; is much inter- 

 ested in the education of the farmers' children, and is serving his third three- 

 year term as school director; is pursuing the Correopondence Course of the 

 Pennsylvania State College. 



NORMAN BRUCE CRITOHFIELD was born in Somerset county, July 20, 1838; 

 was educated in the public and normal schools of his native county, and at 

 the Ohio University, located at Athens, Ohio; he is by occupation a farmer; 

 during the Civil War he served nine months in the One Hundred and Seventy- 

 first Pennsylvania Militia, and at the close of his term entered the Twenty- 

 eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, with which regiment he continued until the 

 'Close of the war; he has held in his own county the position of school director, 

 county superintendent of public schools, prothonotary and clerk of courts; 

 elected to the Senate, November 4, 1S90; appointed judge in the Department 

 of Agriculture at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and served as 

 vice president and chairman of the board of judges in said department; was 

 re-elected to Senate in 1894, and appointed Secretary of Agriculture, February 

 24, 1903. 



Z. T. CURE was born in 1848, and attended the public schools, including the city 

 high school, until seventeen years of age, after which he taught school for five 

 years, and has followed farming and stock raising ever since. His school 

 training has been supplemented by extensive reading courses, which, by 

 the aid of free translations, covered the subjects taught in college courses, 

 ■with the exception of higher mathrmatics. As sources of information on the 

 topics which he discusses, he depends upon experience and observation, aided 

 'by Prof. L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University, in the domain of horticulture 

 and kindred subjects, and Andrew S. Fuller on the propagation of plants, etc., 

 and other publications of authority, together with a careful perusal of the 

 best agricultural periodicals of the day and a studious consultation of the 

 latest bulletins of the Experiment Stations. He has had considerable experi- 

 ence in the discussion of literary and scientific subjects before teachers' insti- 

 tutes, and has made a careful study of the topics chosen to present at farm- 

 ers' institutes. 



J. D. DETRICH'S knowledge of agriculture, as a science, dates from 

 1882, since which time he has been availing himself of all the bulletins, maga- 

 zines and books relating to soil, crops, dairying, breeding, feeding and rear- 



