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OoLON C. LiLLiE, Coopersville: 

 1.— Keeping up soil fertility. 



2.— Increasing soil fertility, or bringing up a run-down farm. 

 3.— Up-to date stock feeding and management. 

 4. — The co-operative creamery vs. the home dairy. 

 5. — Selection, breeding, and care of the dairy herd. 

 6.— Advantages of winter dairying. 

 7.— Advantages of the silo; how to build one. 

 8.— Growing, handling, and feeding ensilage. 

 9.— Dairying as a business. 

 10. — Pig raising as an adjunct of dairying. 

 11.— Clover on the dairy farm; how to handle it. 

 12.— How to malie a profit with farm poultry. 

 13.— What kind of an education does the farmer need and where can be get It? 



(Eve.) 

 14. — Thoroughness in farming. 

 KoLAND Morrill, Benton Harbor: 



1. — Cultivation and pruning; results illustrated. 

 2. — Gathering, packing, and marketing fruit. 

 3. — Business methods in farming. 

 4. — The successful culture of apples and plums. 

 5.— Spraying; why, how, whenV 

 6.— Small fruits for market. 

 7.— Peaches and plums. 

 8. — The home fruit garden. 

 9.— Benefits of intensive cultivation. 

 10.— The apple orchard. 

 11.— Objects and methods of pruning. 

 12. — Value of commercial fertilizers. 

 13. — The horticultural situation. 

 A. E. Palmer, Kalkaska: 

 1. — The home dairy. 



2. — Klements of successful farming- in norLhern Michig-an. (Eve.) 

 3.— The education of the farmer. (Eve.) 

 4. — Soil fertility; how formed; how preserved. 

 5. — Value of manures on sandy lands. 

 6.— Silage and silos. 

 7.— Summer feeding of dairycattle. 

 8.— The development of northern Michigan. (Eve.) 

 9. — Good roads under the county system. 

 10. — Green soiling vs. pasturage of dairy stock. 

 11. — Rotation of crops. 

 12. — Rye as a cattle food. 

 L. J. Post, Lowell: 

 1. — Orcharding. 

 2.— Spraying. 

 3.— Potato growing. 

 4. — Farm management. 

 5.— Commercial fertilizers. 

 Jas. Pullae, Sault Ste. Marie: 



1.— Bringing up a run-down farm. 

 2. — Business farming. 

 3.— Knowing what you are about. 

 A. G. Randall, Tekonsha: 



1.— Condition and wants of our country schools. (Eve.) 

 2. — Nature study in country schools. (Eve.) 

 3.— The school problem. (Eve.) 



4. — How shall we improve our common schools? (Eve.) 

 5. — The farm and the school. (Eve.) 

 F. F. Rogers, Port Huron: 

 1. — Road improvement. 

 John L. Shawver, Belief ontaine, Ohio: 

 1. — Farm buildings. 

 2. — The farm home. (i]ve.) 



