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forestry; the introduction and distribution of weeds; plant diseases and 

 their preventives; improving plants by selection, cultivation, crossing 

 and hybridizing. 



Animals. — Concerning these are suitable topics for us to consider: 

 Fish culture ; bee-keeping ; insects injurious to cultivated plants and reme- 

 dies; the habits of birds with reference to benefiting or injuring farm 

 crops; animal plagues in great variety, veterinary science; dairy hus- 

 bandry in its broad sense ; experiments in feeding cattle, sheep, pigs, and 

 poultry, for specific purposes; breeding and improving any kind of do- 

 mestic animal. 



Concerning the Human element in Agriculture, the following may be 

 enumerated : The education of the young farmer in school and college ; 

 the aims, methods and results ; the improvement of the citizen in grange, 

 club and institute; the management of county and State affairs and 

 making exhibits ; the relations of botany, geology, zoology to agriculture ; 

 the connection and relation of science and art in agriculture; the prog- 

 ress or methods of any portion of farm industry ; the sugar supply ; the 

 meat supply; transportation of farm produce; how to reduce the cost 

 of production and marketing of farm products; and how to enlarge for- 

 eign markets for the same; the history of agriculture or any portion of 

 it; political economy and sociology for the farmer as a citizen. This 

 enumeration will suggest other allied topics. 



