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ingr of dairy animals. This, together with information furnished by tlie 

 colleges and experiment stations, he has put into practice, and the result has 

 been a satisfactory and profitable system of extensive farming. 



W. M. C. DRAKE was born in Lawrence county, August 16, 1860. He was edu- 

 cated at the public schools and a normal school at New Castle, Pa., passing a 

 teachers examination. He has spent all of life on the farm; was presi- 

 dent of the Farmers' Alliance in Lawrence county one term. He has been 

 for several years past in partnership with his brother, operating 600 acres of 

 land besides a market gai'den and an exitensive orchard. 



WILLIAM FREAR was born in 1860, in Reading, Pa. He was educated in the 

 public schools of that city and of Norristown, entered the preparatory and 

 later the collegiate department of Bucknell University, grading in 1881; 

 pursued a post-graduate course at Illinois, Wesleyan and Harvard Univer- 

 sities. Spent the growing season of the year during his childhood and youth 

 at work upon a Pennsylvania farm; was made assistant chemist to the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, 1883-5, and was engaged in sugar- 

 beet products and ( ereals. In 1885 he was elected professor of agricultural 

 chemistry in the Pennsylvania State College, and in 1887 was made vice- 

 director and chemist to the Pennsylvania State College Expeiiment Station. 

 In 1888 he was elected chemist to the Pennsylvania Board of Agriculture, and 

 in 1895 chemist to the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. He was also 

 president of the National Association of Agricultural Chemists, and has been 

 one of the leading lecttu'ers upon the State force of Farmers' Institutes. 



HORACE H. HALL, of the "Triplet Oak Farm," was born on a farm near Cou- 

 dersport. Potter county. Pa., in 1853. He received most of his education in 

 the common schools, though he attended the Emporium graded and the Cou- 

 dersport high schools for a limited time. He i^eceived his first teacher's cer- 

 tificate when twenty and taught in the schools of Potter county for twenty 

 years, mostly in the district schools, though he served as principal of the 

 Galeton and Oswayo graded schools. When not engaged in teaching, he 

 worked at farming or in the lumber woods. At forty he turned his whole 

 attention to farming, having bought 114 acres of bark slashing and woods, 

 ^v•hich he stocked with sheep while he was clearing and stumping, and in 

 about ten years he has logged and stumped fifty acres, built substantial farm 

 buildings, changed from a sheepman to a successful dairyman, and is a large 

 producer of the finest strawberries. 



JOHN W. HARSHBERGER, Ph. D., was born in Philadelphia, January 1, 

 1869. His early education was received in the public schools, terminating in 

 his graduation from the Central High School of Philadelphia in 1888. He 

 entered the Universitj' of Pennsylvania on a city scholarship, taking his B. S. 

 there in 1892, and his Ph. D. in 1893, when he was made instructor in Botany, 

 General Biology and Zoology, a position which he still holds. In addition, 

 Dr. Harshberger has studied at Howard University and at Bci'lin, Germany, 

 and has traveled extensively for botanical purposes in Mexico, the West 

 Indies, California, Maine and Europe, where he carefully inspected the several 

 noted botanical institutions. Dr. Harshberger has been identified with the 

 American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, the Paeons Pines 

 Summer School, the Deparment of Lecturers, University of Pennsylvania. 

 He has been recorder of the botanical section of the Academy of Natural 

 Science and a member of the more prominent botanical societies in America. 

 His published works consist of "Maize; a Botanical and Economic Study," 

 1893, pp. 125, translated later in Mexico into Spanish; "The Botanists of Phila- 

 delphia and Their Woi'k," 1899, pp. 457, forty plates, and "Students Herbarium 

 for Descriptive and Geographic Purposes," 1901, pp. 210. He is botanical editor 

 of a new American English Dictionary under course of pulilication by J. B. 

 Lippincott Co., and is engaged at present in writing "An Introduction to the 

 Phytogography of North America" for a firm in Leipzig, Germany. His 

 printed papers number above ninety, mainly on Botany and related subjects. 



JOEL A. HERR was born in Clinton county. Pa., and educated in the public 

 schools and at Dickinson Seminary. He served in the Civil War and has 

 been a student, teacher and farmer all his life. He lives now on his farm and 

 gives special attention to fruit culture and stock raising. He is a member 

 of the State Board of Agriculture and a trustee of the Pennsylvania State 

 College. 



E. S. HOOVER was born in Lancaster county. Pa., in 1839; was educated 

 in the public schools. White Hall Academy and the State Normal School 

 at Millersville, taught school four terms, owns and controls a farm. Is 

 engaged in general farming, at one time gave special attention to growing 

 and feeding of live stock, especially in raising and training horses, and, later, 

 devoted himself to the horticultural branch of agriculture. Acquired knowl- 

 edge ,of agriculture by study, actual experience and experimenting. Is at 



