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Sixth. — To stimulate the making of soil surveys and farm manage- 

 ment surveys. 



All communications should be addressed to the Honorary Secretary, 

 Clarence Sears Kates, Com Exchange Bank Building, Second and Chest- 

 nut streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 



The Bureau has informally already accomplished good. It is daily 

 having inquiries from farmers, out-of-town banks and business men for 

 advice as to the improvement of agricultural conditions in the four states. 

 We helped to secure for the Farm Bureau in West Chester, through the 

 County Commissioners, $1,000, and we are endeavoring at the present 

 time to have a county agent established in Fayette Coimty and Monroe 

 County. The Philadelphia Vegetable Growers' Association (a new asso- 

 ciation just started at Bustleton), has asked the Bureau to help them in 

 trying to secure the convention of the Vegetable Growers' Association 

 of America, to* be held in October, for this city. We have promised our 

 support to this, and plans are already under way to endeavor to have the 

 convention held here. 



