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R. F. SCHV^^ARZ was born near Berlin, Germany, in 1853; educated in Ducal 

 Gymnasi and Ducal Colleg-e, at Dessau. He came to New York in 1S71, 

 removed to Chicago in 1873, and in 1875 bought a farm in Monroe county, in 

 this State, where he has since followed the business of fruit growing and 

 market gardening, devoting at the present time about thirty acres to this 

 pursuit. He was a member of the House of Representatives two terms, 1S93 

 and 1895. 



R. S. SEEDS was born in Huntingdon county. Pa., in 1852; was educated in 

 the public schools and at the Shade Gap Academy. He was raised upon a 

 farm and traveled for eighteen years among the farmers, selling arglcultural 

 implements. In 1892 he bought a farm that had been run down, which he has 

 greatly improved. 



W. H. STOUT was born October 18, 1840, in Dower Nazareth township, North- 

 ampton county, Pa.; was educated in the common schools and engaged in 

 various occupations, serving an apprenticeship at coopering and milling, at 

 clerkship and traveling salesman; has lived on his present farm for the past 

 twenty-eight years, and is engaged in general farming, trucking, fruit grow- 

 ing and bee-keeping; has acquired practical and scientific information by 

 observation and study; speaks English and German. 



R. R. STUART was born on a farm in Clarion county August 31, 1869; attended 

 public school and graduated from the Clarion State Normal School in 1892, 

 and from Mount Hope College (Ohio) in 1899; has engaged in school teaching 

 from the rural school to principal of the high school; has served in his town- 

 ship as collector, justice of the peace, town clerk, treasurer and secretary and 

 treasurer of the school board. In 1S92 he settled on the farm where he still 

 lives, giving attention to raising swine and sheep. He has contributed fre- 

 quently of his experience to the press, and in every way has kept among the 

 front rank in the station ?\-here he lives, believing in the highest culture 

 and th esuccess that springs from individual effort. 



HARVETT ADAM. SURFACE, M. S. , Economic Zoologist, was born on a farm in 

 Warren county, Ohio, in 1867. He worked on the farm and attended and 

 taught country school. He was educated in the Lebanon (Ohio) Normal, the 

 Ohio State University, the University of Illinois, Hopkins (Stanford) Cali- 

 fornia Seaside Laboratory and Cornell University. He taught in the Ohio 

 State University, the University of the Pacific, Cornell, the Ithaca schools, 

 teachers' institutes and tlie Pennsylvania State College. He held a fellow- 

 ship in Cornell and was also appointed Dykman Research Fellow in Columbia 

 University. He was field naturalist for the Illinois State Biological Station 

 and University Extension lecturer in New York. He has also been lecturer In 

 Zoology at the West Coast Chautauqua Assembly and scientific as.^istant on 

 the United States Fish Commission. He has taught in every known grade 

 of school work, and is noted for his enthusiasm and ability as a teacher, 

 speaker and v/riter. Pie Is ornithologist of the Pennsylvania State Board of 

 Agriculture, and is making' investigation:^ of insects for the Pennsylvania 

 State Department of Agriciilture and of fishes for the Pennsylvania State 

 Fish Commission. Among his writings are articles on nature study, zoologT, 

 mollusks, insects, fishes, birds, mammals, pedagogy, anatomy, etc. He is5 

 nature study editor of the "Popular Educator," ornithological editor of "Ameri- 

 can Gardening," member of the American Society of Naturalists, American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, the Pennsylvania State Audubon Society, etc. He makes a specialty 

 of the biologic and economic features of his subjects. He was appointed 

 Econcmic Zoologist by Governor Pennypacker in 1903. 



DR. I. A. THAYER was born rear Warren, Ohio, in November, 1840. He 

 was reared on a farm of which he was foreman for a number of years under a 

 scientific and successful farmer; was educated in Hiram College, under the 

 presidency of General Garfield. He graduated in medicine in 1866, and prac- 

 ticed that profession several years. Since laying down that practice he has 

 been engaged in public speaking, having, during fifteen years, filled important 

 lecture engagements from Boston to St. Louis, under the management of 

 the leading lyceum bureaus. He has recently finished the course in crop pro- 

 duction and that in live stock production in our State College. For nine 

 months in the year his time is given wholly to his farming operations, for 

 years, conducting a veritable experiment station where he has worked with a 

 book in one hand and a hoe in the other; hence, he is equipped with a 

 practical knowledge that he has the ability to express in the clearest manner. 



F. J. WAGNER was born on a fann near Claridge, Pa., in 1868; received a good 

 common school education and later a course at a business college. Taught 

 public school two terms and since has been regularly engaged in farming, 

 devoting particular attention to dairying a^nd the breeding of fine Jersey 

 cattle. A few years ago he took up the Correspondence Course of the Penn- 

 sylvania State College, and has completed the course in Grain, Crops, 

 Clovers, Grapes, Farm Manures and Stock Feeding. 



