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present time a membef of the board of trustees of Millersville State Normal 

 School; was a member of the Legislature, 1883-1884; has for some time and 

 is at present engaged in Farmers' Institutes ^vork. 



GEORGE E. HULL., the subject of this sketch, a number of years ago moved 

 upon a worn-out farm without buildings in Mercer county. By industry, per- 

 serverance and intelligent effort he has succeeded in restoring it to the highest 

 state of fertility; has placed thereon substantial and convenient farm build- 

 ings, and educated his children, v/ithout other income than that derived 

 from the. farm. His silos, stock scales, farm implements and improved live 

 stock are the admiration of all progressive farmers. 



A. J. KAHLER was born in Hughesvnie, Pa., in 1834; was educated in the 

 public schools and afterwards taught school in his native county; has always 

 lived upon a farm; has filled every local office in his township; was a mem- 

 ber of the Legislature in 1891-1892; was president for six years of the County 

 Agricultural Society; is a member of the State Board of Agriculture and has 

 been identified with most of the leading farm organizations of the State. 



J. H. LEDY was born in Marion, Franklin county, Pa., August 3, 1864, and 

 received his education in the common schools of Guilford township and at 

 the Chambersburg Academy. After leaving school he engaged in the mercan- 

 tile business for seven years at Marion and Waynesboro, Pa. In the spring 

 of 1889 he accepted a position with S. Smucker & ^.^., wholesale grocers of 

 Philadelphia. He remained with this firm four years, when he was elected 

 register and recorded of Franklin county, after which he became half owner 

 and business manager of the People's Register, of Chambersburg, an inde- 

 pendent journal of large circulation. He now ownes and superintends 151 acres 

 of apple trees, inlaid with peaches and plums. Mr. Ledy is a practical fruit 

 grower, who loves the work and has turned his whole attention to it. 



L. W. LIGHT Y was born in York county. Pa., in 1857; attended the public 

 schools of his neighborhood; afterward attended a select school in Adams 

 county and then taught school for seven winters. During this time he attended 

 the York County Academy one term and also attended the State Normal 

 School at Millersville. He then kept store, but not liking the business, he got 

 out of it, and started in the poultry business, keeping both market and 

 fancy poultry, and engaged in bee-keeping and .the culture of small fruits. 

 In 1893 he purchased the farm upon which he now lives. The land was worn 

 out and the buildings quite dilapidated. He has improved this until it is 

 now one of the best farms in his county. He has a large library of standard 

 books, keeps a selected dairy of cows, and has all the modern improvements 

 needed to equip a first-class farm. 



M. S. McDOWELL was born in Mifflin county, Pa.; attended the public schools, 

 and Lewistown Academy; entered Pennsylvania State College in 1888, and 

 was graduated in '92; after graduation was connected with a, fertilizer manu- 

 facturing establishment in Baltimore, and later came to the chemical depart- 

 ment of the Experiment Station, with which he has been connected five years. 



A. L. MARTIN was born near Mount Jackson, Lawrence county. Pa., in 1844; 

 received his education in the public schools and at Poland (Ohio) College; 

 served as school director in his native township and that of Little Beaver for 

 eight years; filled the position of census enumerator in 1890; was elected to the 

 House of Representatives in 1892, and served continuously until 1S99; was 

 during this continued service a member of the Agricultural Committee, and 

 acting as its chairman in the session of 1897: by appointment of Govenor 

 Pattison, in 1893, became member of Farmers' National Congress and has been 

 reappointed to same position by all subsequent Governors. Was appointed 

 by Governor Stone, April 24, 1899, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and 

 Director of Farmers' Institutes for Pennsylvania, and reappoint'sd by Gover- 

 nor Pennypacker, April 24, 1903. 



PROF. FRANKLIN MENGES, Ph. D., was born forty-five years ago at 

 Menges' Mill, York county. Pa., the first nineteen years of his life were spent 

 on his father's farm, with all the ardour that farming meant in those days; 

 he then began a course of preparation for college at the Baugher Academy, 

 Hanover, Pa., and entered and graduated from Pennsylvania College, Gettys- 

 burg, with the class of 1886; was immediately tendered and accepted the 

 position of assistant professor of chemistry in his alma mater, which position 

 he held until 1896, when he came to York and took the professorship of the 

 sciences in the York High School, which position he now holds; received the 

 degree of Ph. D. from his alma mater for special work in chemistry, mineral- 

 ogy and physics. He has for years been a student of the "Experiment Station 

 Record," and has continued an interest in practical agriculture, and has 

 lectured before Farmere' Institutes. 



