(Note: The following list of lecturers available to make presentations at Farmers Institutes was published in the 54th Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture published in 1899. Please note there were two main sources of lecturers - those from the Ohio State University and those employed by the Ohio State Board of Agriculture. It appears the ones employed by the Board of Agriculture were experienced farmers from through out the state.
In Ohio a three mills per capita tax supported Farmers' Institute work. The Farmers' Institute season in 1899-1900 started on Monday, November 27, 1899 and ran through March 3, 1900. There were 6-8 circuits in operation. Two hundred and fifty three (253) county institutes were held during this period under the auspices of the state Board of Agriculture. Twenty independent institutes were also conducted. The average attendance per institute was 361. Each institute was two days in length.
The 54th report also contained a detailed financial report. I have included in parenthesis the amount of reimbursement the lecturer received for travel and expenses in the previous year. This gives us a rough measure of the popularity of that lecturer. However, it should be noted that the state Board of Agriculture assigned lecturers based upon requests from counties.)
Lectures from Agricultural Department of the Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio.
Prof. Wm. R. Lazenby (three weeks -
$46.45)
HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY.
1. Does Farming Pay? Twenty minutes.
2. Some Troublesome Insects. Thirty
minutes.
3. A Study of the Apple. Twenty minutes.
4. A Talk About Weeds. Thirty minutes.
5. Winter Gardening for Profit. Twenty
minutes.
6. Some Profitable Special Crops.
Thirty minutes.
7. Crimson Clover and other Clover
Crops. Twenty minutes.
8. Some Reasons for Growing Forest
Trees. Twenty minutes,
9. The External Adornment of the Home.
Thirty minutes. Night.
10. Nature Study, for Boys and Girls.
Thirty minutes. Night.
Prof. W. A. Kellerman (one week, 4
days - $51.00)
BOTANY.
1. Modern Science in Modern Life. Fifty
minutes.
2. Nature and Work of Bacteria. Forty-five
minutes.
3. Some Principles Underlying Sanitation.
Forty minutes.
4. Some Defects in our Education.
Forty-five minutes.
5. Smuts, Rusts and Blights. Forty
minutes.
6. The Home as an Educator. Forty
minutes.
7. Some Laws of Plant Growth. Thirty
minutes.
8. Trees and Plants for Shade and
Ornament. Thirty minutes.
Prof. W. D. Gibbs (two weeks - $30.90)
AGRICULTURE.
1. Origin and Nature of Soils. Twenty
minutes.
2. Controlling Soil Moisture by Tillage.
Twenty minutes.
3. Modern Methods in Corn Culture.
Twenty minutes.
4. Reasons for Crop Rotation. Twenty
minutes.
5. Stock Foods and Feeding. Twenty
minutes.
6. Planning the Kitchen, Twenty minutes.
7. Young People and their Opportunities.
Thirty minutes. Night.
Prof. David S. White (one day - $5.40)
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE
1. Tuberculosis in Cattle and the Tuberculin
Test. Thirty minutes.
2. The Care of Horses' Hoofs. Thirty
minutes.
3. Hog Cholera and Swine Plague. .
Thirty minutes.
4. Two Veterinary Instruments Which
Should be on Every Farm. Twenty minutes.
5. Two Usually Fatal Diseases of Farm
Animals, Which may Readily be Prevented. Thirty minutes.
6. Diseases of Sheep. Thirty minutes.
7. The Passing of the Horse. Forty-five
minutes. Night.
Prof. J. W. Decker (one week - $13.30)
DAIRYING
1. The Care of Milk. Twenty minutes.
2. Some Facts about Milk. Twenty minutes.
3. Cows for Love or Profit, Which?
Twenty minutes.
4. Why a Farmer's Son Should Take
an Agricultural College Course. Twenty Minutes.
5. European Dairying. Fifteen minutes.
6. Some Points about Cheese. Twenty
minutes.
7. Farm Dairy Butter from the Cow
to the Consumer. Twenty minutes.
8. The Ohio Dairy School. Twenty minutes.
J. Warren Smith
DIRECTOR OHIO SECTION, WEATHER BUREAU,
COLUMBUS, 0.
1. Weather Forecasts and Warnings,
How Made, Distributed and Utilized. Forty minutes.
2. Frost Warnings and the Protection
of Crops from Frost. Forty minutes.
3. The Location of Ohio in the Climatological
Zone of the Northern Hemisphere. Thirty-five minutes.
4. Lightning and Electricity of the
Air. Forty minutes.
5. The Atmosphere. Forty minutes.
6. The Farmer and the Weather Bureau.
Fifty-five minutes.
7. Hurricanes, Cyclones and Tornadoes.
Fifty minutes.
Lecturers Employed by the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, with Post Office Addresses and Topics.
F. L. Allen, Kinsman, 0. (two weeks, 4 days - $129.25)
1. Fertility. Twenty-five minutes.
2. Some Profitable Investments. Thirty
minutes. Night.
3. Maple Creek Farm, Its Management.
Twenty minutes.
4. Cattle Feeding. Twenty minutes.
5. Wheat Raising. Twenty minutes.
6 . The Potato Crop. Twenty minutes.
7. Silos and Silage. Thirty minutes.
8. The Farmer. Thirty minutes. Night.
9. Saving and Applying Manures. Twenty
minutes.
John Begg, Columbus Grove, 0. (nine weeks - $440.55)
1. Corn Culture. Twenty minutes.
2. Sheep as a Live Stock Product in
Diversified Farming. Twenty minutes.
3, From Seed Time to Harvest in the
Wheat Field. Twenty-five minutes,
4. Practical Methods in Keeping up
Soil Fertility. Twenty-five minutes.
5. Growing Stock Cattle, Does it Pay
the Small Farmer? Fifteen minutes.
6. The Ideal Farm Home. Thirty-five
minutes. Night.
7. Swine Husbandry, How Best Conducted.
Twenty minutes.
8. Landlord and Tenant and Their Relation
to Each Other. Twenty-five minutes.
9. Sunshine and Shadow on the Farm.
Forty-five minutes. Night,
10. Selecting and Feeding Cattle in
Winter. Thirty minutes.
11. The Farmer Boy and His Opportunities.
Forty minutes. Night.
12. Small Fruit Growing in Connection
with General Farming. Twenty minutes.
13. Farm Literature, or What Shall
We Read? Thirty minutes. Night.
O. E. Bradfute, Cedarville, 0. (one week, $41.35)
1. The Modern Beef Animal, Form and
Type. Thirty minutes.
2. The Modern Beef Animal, How Produced.
Thirty minutes.
3. The Value of a Pedigree. Thirty
minutes.
4. The Agricultural Fair. Thirty minutes.
5. An Up-to-Date Stock Farm. Thirty
minutes.
6. Free Rural Mail Delivery. Thirty
minutes.
7. The Calf. Thirty minutes.
8. Management of a Herd of Pure Blood
Cattle. Thirty minutes.
9. Various Breeds of Cattle, Historical
and Descriptive. Thirty minutes.
10. Special vs. General Purpose Cattle.
Thirty minutes.
11. Why am I a Farmer? Forty-five
minutes. Night.
W. N. Cowden, Quaker City. 0. (six weeks, 4 days - $315.75)
1. Is Sheep Husbandry as Profitable
as Other Branches of Stock Farming? Twenty minutes.
2. How to Make Sheep Husbandry Profitable.
Twenty minutes.
3. Underdraining 'Hill Land. Fifteen
minutes.
4. Profitable Fruit Growing. Thirty
minutes.
5. In the Peach Orchard for Profit.
Twenty minutes.
6. Education Needed by the Farmer.
Thirty minutes. Night.
7. Our Common Schools and Their Needs.
Thirty minutes. Night.
8. Farming On or Off the Farm, Which?
Twenty-five minutes.
9. How Taxation Affects the Farmer.
Forty minutes. Night.
10. Laws Needed by Agriculture. Twenty
minutes.
11. The Three Bells. Thirty minutes.
Night.
12. How to Retain Fertility and How
to Regain Lost Fertility. Thirty minutes.
13. Why am I a Farmer? Twenty minutes.
Night.
14. What is Pedigree Worth? Fifteen
minutes,
15. What Crops Shall the Farmer Sell?
(Illustrated.) Twenty-five minutes.
16. Our Forage Plants. Fifteen minutes.
17. The Man With the Hoe. Twenty minutes.
J. A. Dobie, Gutman, 0. (nine weeks, $433.53)
1. Improving Soil Texture. Twenty minutes.
2. The Main Things in Swine Growing.
Thirty minutes.
3. Preparing Seed Beds. Twenty minutes,
4. Shall We Breed Higher or Feed Better?
Twenty minutes.
6. Barns and Outbuildings. Twenty-five
minutes.
6. Training Horses for Farm Work.
Thirty minutes.
7. How to Make the Small Farm Pay.
Thirty minutes.
8. Small Fruits for Home Use. Twenty
minutes.
9. Tile Drainage. Twenty-five minutes.
10, Character as Affected by Country
Life. Fifty-five minutes. Night.
W. G. Farnsworth, Waterville, 0. (two weeks, 4 days - $114.65)
1. The Culture of Fruit by the Farmer.
Twenty-five minutes.
2. Mutual Fire Insurance for Farmers.
Twenty-five minutes.
3. How We Grow and Handle Potatoes.
Twenty-five minutes.
4. The Growing of Small Fruits from
a Commercial Standpoint. Twenty minutes.
5. Pruning of Small Fruits and Orchards.
Fifteen minutes.
6. Peach and Cherry Culture. Twenty
minutes.
7. How We Maintain and Increase the
Fertility of Our Soil. Twenty minutes.
8. Care and Management of Farm Help.
Twenty minutes, Night,
9. How and When to Spray. Fifteen
minutes.
10. Partnership on the Farm. Twenty
minutes. Night.
W. W. Farnsworth, Waterville, 0. (eight weeks - $365.61)
1. Can We Grow Apples, and How? Twenty-five
minutes.
2. Pruning Trees and Vines. Twenty
minutes.
3. The Farm Horse, His Management
and Care. Twenty-five minutes.
4. Modern Potato Culture. Twenty minutes.
5. Small Fruit Culture for Home or
Market. Twenty-five minutes.
6. Orchard Management. Twenty-five
minutes.
7. Soil Management. Thirty minutes.
8. Spraying and How To Do It. Twenty
minutes.
9. Improving and Ornamenting the Farm
Home and Its Surroundings. Twenty-five minutes.
10. Why I Had a Crop of Peaches in
1899. Twenty minutes.
11. Advantages of Rural Childhood.
Thirty-five minutes. Night.
12; Nature Education. Twenty minutes.
Night.
C. W. Freeman, Rex, 0. (six weeks - $297.98)
1. How Shall a Young Man Begin Farming?
Twenty-five minutes.,
2. Better Farming. Fifteen minutes.
3, Shall We Let Our Forests Go? Twenty
minutes.
4. Why Farmers are Humbugged in Buying
Fruit Trees. Twenty minutes.
5. Why Young Trees Die for Farmers.
Twenty minutes.
6. What Varieties of Fruit to Plant,
Fifteen minutes.
7. Some Business Requirements of the
Farmer. Twenty-five minutes,
8. The Farmer's Door Yard. Twenty
minutes.
9. Do Farmers Need to Organize? Twenty-five
minutes.
10. How Shall the Farmer Boy and Girl
be Educated? Thirty minutes. Night.
11. Can We Afford Township High Schools?
Forty minutes. Night.
12. What Shall We Do With Our Boys
and Girls? Forty minutes. Night.
G. C. Housekeeper, Bowling Green, 0. (five weeks - $235.95)
1. Rotary Farming, Why Best? Twenty
minutes.
2. How to Grow and Get the Most out
of a Crop of Corn. Twenty minutes.
3. Growing and Marketing Potatoes.
Twenty-five minutes.
4. Fruits for Home Use. Twenty minutes.
5. Growing Fruit for Market. Twenty
minutes.
6. Our Weather Service, Its Methods
and Value. Twenty-five minutes.
7. The Farmer and the Public School.
Twenty minutes.
8. Advantages of Farming. Twenty minutes.
9. Making Home and Farm Life Happier.
Thirty minutes. Night.
10. Reading for the Farmer's Family.
Thirty minutes.
11. Our Sons and Daughters. Thirty
minutes. Night.
John G. Ickis, Adena, 0. (two weeks - $96.27)
1. Managing a Sheep Farm. Twenty-five
minutes.
2. The Farmer as a Salesman. Twenty
minutes.
3. Wool and Its Grades. Fifteen minutes.
4. Ohio Wool and Wool Growers. Thirty
minutes.
5. "Shooting" a Farm. Twenty minutes.
6. The Farmer in Literature. Thirty
minutes. Night.
7. Our Brother Farmer. Twenty minutes.
8. The Beginnings of Agriculture.
Thirty-five minutes. Night.
9. The Dangers of Farm Life. Thirty
minutes. Night
Henry S. Kelley, Geneva, 0. (three weeks - $126.95)
1. Care of Farm Animals. Twenty minutes.
2. Sheep and Early Lambs. Twenty minutes.
3. What Constitutes a Good Farmer.
Thirty minutes;- Night.-,
4. Farm Buildings. Twenty minutes.
5. Vealing Calves. Twenty-five minutes.
6. Disposing of Rough Feed Profitably.
Twenty-five minutes.
7. Garden and Fruit. Twenty minutes.
8. It Must be Gain or Loss. Thirty
minutes. Night.
9. Are there Pleasures in Farming?
Thirty minutes. Night.
Geo. E. Lawrence, Marion, 0. (six weeks - $278.30)
1. Clover, Twenty minutes.
2. Corn. Twenty minutes.
3. Small Fruits for the Home. Twenty
minutes.
4. Small Fruits for the Market. Twenty
minutes.
5. Wheat. Twenty minutes.
6. Mysteries and Problems Still Unsolved.
Thirty minutes. Night.
7. Sowing and Reaping. Thirty minutes.
Night.
8. The Farmer as a Citizen. Forty
minutes. Night.
T. C. Laylin, Norwalk, O. (eight weeks, 4 days - 111.94)
1. Fifteen Minutes in the Oats Field.
2. Fields and Fences. Twenty minutes.
3. Theory and Practice in Corn Culture.
Twenty minutes.
4. Breeding and Management of Mutton
Lambs. Twenty minutes.
5. The Improvement of Soil by Mechanical
Means. Twenty minutes...
6. The Improvement of Soil by Fertilizers.
Twenty minutes.
7, Farmers' Problems. Forty minutes.
8., What Does It Cost? Forty minutes.
9. Genius in Farming. Forty-five minutes.
Night,
10. "Our Boys." Forty-five minutes.
Night.
J. A. Lehmann, Savannah, 0. (five weeks - $233.90)
1. Leaks About the Farm. Twenty minutes.
2. Roads and Road Making. Twenty minutes.,
3. A Round Year With the Farmer's
Flock. Twenty-five minutes
4. Selecting and Handling Sheep for
Market. Twenty-five minutes.
5. Home Conveniences. Twenty minutes.
6. The Farmer's Library. Twenty minutes.
7. A Plea for More and Better Live
Stock. Twenty-five minutes.
8. Culture and Disposal of the Corn
Crop. Twenty minutes.
9. How We Handle Clover. Twenty minutes.
10 The A B C's in Feeding. Twenty
minutes.
11. Give the Boys and Girls a Chance.
Forty minutes. Night.
12. Agriculture and Culture. Forty
minutes. Night.
S. K. McLaughlin, Hurford, 0. (six weeks - $322.60)
1. Breeding and Keeping Fine Wool Sheep.
Twenty-five minutes..
2. The Farmer's Garden and Truck Patch.
Twenty minutes.
3. Cross-Bred Yearlings for Mutton.
Twenty minutes.
4. Good Roads, How to Secure and Maintain
Them. Twenty minutes.
5. Agricultural Fairs, Their Use and
Abuse. Twenty-five minutes.
6. Wheat Raising. Twenty-five minutes.
7. Preparing Wool for Market. Twenty
minutes.
8. Corn Culture. Thirty minutes.
9. Weeds and Weed Laws. Twenty minutes.
10. How to Make the Best Hay. Twenty
minutes.
11. The Farmer's Wife. Thirty-five
minutes. Night.
12. The Closing Century. Thirty minutes.
. Night.
H. P. Miller, Sunbury, 0. (eight weeks - $355.64)
1. The Care of Young Animals. Twenty-five
minutes.
2. Feeds and Feeding. Twenty-five
minutes.
3. Training the Horse. Twenty minutes.
4. The Care of a Team. Twenty minutes.
5. Growing and Marketing the Hothouse
Lamb. Twenty-five minutes,
6. The Different Ways of Handling
a Flock. Twenty-five minutes.
7. The Parasitic Enemies of Sheep.
Twenty-five minutes.
8. Our Farming. Twenty minutes.
9. Employing Help on the Farm. Twenty-five
min utes. Night.
10. The Farm as a Home. Twenty minutes.
Night.
11. Bacteria. Twenty minutes. Night.
T. J. Miller, Lassie, O. (five weeks - $255.65)
1. Clover, the Farmer's Friend. Twenty-five
minutes.
2. Preparation of Seedbed. Twenty-five
minutes.
3. What Fruit Should the Farmer Raise?
Twenty-five minutes.
4. What Fertilizers Should We Use?
Twenty-five minutes.
5. Program for the Farm. Twenty-five
minutes.
6. Little Things We Should Know. Twenty
minutes.
7. Poultry for Profit. Twenty minutes.
8. Breeding and Feeding Cattle. Twenty-five
minutes.
9. Breeding and Feeding Hogs. Twenty-five
minutes.
10. Woman's Mission on the Farm. Forty
minutes. Night.
11 Our Boys and Girls. Forty minutes.
Night.
12. The Kind of a Man the Times Demand.
Forty minutes. Night..
13. Country and City Life Compared.
Thirty-five minutes.
14. Judging Live Stock at Fairs. Thirty
minutes,
Cary W. Montgomery, Newark, 0. (two weeks - $80.60)
1. Soil Conditions Essential to Crop
Production. Twenty minutes.
2. The Farmer's Fruit Garden. Twenty
minutes.
3. Potatoes. Fifteen minutes,
4. Melons. Fifteen minutes.
5. Rural Amusements. Twenty minutes.
6. What Do We Owe to Our Community?
Twenty minutes.
7. Marketing Produce. Twenty minutes.
Lowell Roudebush, Owensville, 0. (nine weeks - $399.27)
1. Southern Cowpeas, Clover or Alfalfa,
Which? Fifteen minutes.
2. Insect Pests and Their Enemies.
(Illustrated.) Fifteen minutes.
3. Some Noxious Weeds and Methods
for Destroying Them. (Illustrated.) Fifteen minutes.
4. Sheep, Several Reasons for Raising
Them. Fifteen minutes.
5. Is it Profitable to Raise Horses;
If so, What Class? Fifteen minutes.
6. Feeding Stock for Profit. Fifteen
minutes.
7. Some Common Mistakes in Poultry
Raising. . Fifteen minutes.
8. Care and Management of Small Fruits.
Twenty minutes.
9. Good and Bad Effects of Thirty
Degrees Below Zero. Fifteen minutes.
10. The Influence of Agriculture.
Twenty minutes. Night.
11. Thirty-Six Hours in California.
Twenty minutes. Night.
Geo. E. Scott, Mt. Pleasant, 0. (six weeks, 4 days - $344.15)
1. Clover and Nitrogen. Twenty-five
minutes.
2. Improvement in Corn and Corn Culture.
Twenty-five minutes.
3. Breeding and Feeding a Swine Herd.
Twenty-five minutes.
4. Cultivation of Manures for Fertilizers.
Twenty minutes.
5. Breeding and Feeding a Dairy Herd.
Twenty-five minutes.
6. Wheat Growing as a Practical Science.
Twenty minutes.
7. Poultry for Farmers. Twenty minutes.
8. Making and Selling Gilt-Edge Butter.
Twenty-five minutes.
9. Gems from Successful Careers. Thirty
minutes. Night.
10. Farm Telephones, Their Cost and
Benefits. Twenty minutes.
11. Our Farm, Its Advantages and Disadvantages.
Twenty minutes.
12. The Physical, Moral, Social and
Intellectual Status of Rural Homes. Thirty-five minutes. Night.
John L. Shawver, Bellefontaine, 0. (five weeks, 4 days - $262.76)
1. The Farm Dairy. Thirty minutes.
2. Points for Butter Makers. Thirty
minutes.
3. Feeds and Feeding. (Illustrated.)
Thirty minutes.
4. Barns and How to Build Them. (Illustrated.)
Thirty minutes.
5. Mutual Fire Insurance. Thirty minutes.
6. The Home and Environments. Twenty
minutes.
7. Household Helps. Twenty minutes.
8. Domestic Economy. Twenty minutes.
9. Farm Accounts. (Illustrated.) Twenty
minutes.
10. What Shall I Produce for Market?
Twenty minutes.
11. Making, Saving and Applying Manures.
Twenty minutes.
12. The Farmer's Fruit Supply. Fifteen
minutes.
13. A Plea for the Forests. Twenty
minutes.
14. Choice of Pursuits. Thirty minutes.
Night.
15. Seedtime and Harvest. Fifty minutes.
Night. (For the young people.)
A. Shirer, BOX 293, Dayton, 0. (four weeks - $189.75)
1. Making, Saving and Applying Manure.
Twenty-five minutes.
2. The Clover Problem. Twenty-five
minutes.
3. Strawberries. Twenty minutes.
4. Early Potatoes. Twenty minutes.
5. The Farmer's Garden. Twenty minutes.
6. Poultry. Twenty minutes.
7. Cost of Production. Twenty minutes.
8. Root, Stem and Leaf. Twenty minutes.
9. Our Public Roads. Twenty minutes.
10. Economy. Twenty minutes.
11. Agriculture in the Public Schools.
Twenty-five minutes.
12. Wayside Notes. Twenty-five minutes.
Night.
13. Past, Present and Future. Thirty-five
minutes. Night.
S. H. Todd, Wakeman, 0. (twelve weeks - $550.10)
1. Deep Cultivation vs. Shallow Cultivation.
Twenty-five minutes.
2. Buying and Using Fertilizers so
as Not to Lose Money. Twenty-five minutes.
3. Fifty Years' Experience in Raising
and Marketing Corn. Twenty-five minutes.
4. On Which Side of the Fence Am I
Farming? Twenty-five minutes.
5. Care and Management of Sheep to
Avoid Disease. Thirty minutes..
6. The Farmer's Garden. Twenty minutes.
7. The Farm and the Hired Man. Twenty-five
minutes.
8. Poultry and the Egg Market. Twenty
minutes.
9. Should the Farmer Raise Pure-Bred
Animals for the General Market;, If Not, Why? Twenty minutes.
10. Animal Formation Decides Its Purpose.
(Illustrated.) Thirty minutes.
11. My Experience with Clover. Twenty
minutes.
12. Which of the Two is the More Important
Crop, the Boys and Girls or the Stock? Sixty minutes. Night.
13. Slippery Places of Life. Fifty
minutes. Night.
E. Trumbo, Cranberry, 0. (four weeks - $187.34)
1. Things Which Farmers Ought to Know.
Twenty-five minutes.
2. Does the Farm Pay? Twenty-five
minutes.
3. Can We Keep up the Fertility of
the Soil and Sell all our Farm Products?Twenty-five minutes.
4. The Advantages of Farm Life. Twenty
minutes.
5. Crops and Stock as influenced by
Seed, Soil and Climate. Thirty minutes,,
6. Crimson Clover. Fifteen minutes.
7. County Fairs. Twenty minutes.
8. How We Learn to Think. Forty minutes.
Night.
9. My Experience with Melons and How
to Raise Them. Twenty minutes.
10. Farmers' Institutes and the Benefits
of Association. Twenty minutes.
11. Progressive Agriculture. Forty
minutes.
12. Tree Planting and Why. Fifteen
minutes.
13. How We Should Use Our Surplus.
Fifteen minutes,
R. H. Wallace, Chillicothe, 0. (eight weeks, 3 days - $397.30)
I. The Sowing and the Reaping. Forty
minutes. Night.
2. Feeding for Profit. Thirty minutes.
3. Heredity in Animal Life. Twenty-five
minutes.
4. Skill in Farming. Thirty minutes.
5. What Constitutes a Farmer's Education?
Forty minutes. Night.
6. The Jersey Cow. Twenty-five minutes.
7. The Farm Dairy. Twenty-five minutes.
8. Excessive Freight Rates -Causes
and Cures. Twenty-five minutes.
9. Prehistoric Races of this Country.
Forty minutes. Night.
10. The State Board of Agriculture
and Farmers' Institutes. Thirty minutes.
11. Will the Future King of the Country
be Corn, Cotton or Wheat? Twenty minutes.
12. What Shall be Done with the Surplus
of the Farm? Thirty minutes. Night.
A. L. White, Norwich, 0. (four weeks, 4 days - $226.70)
1. Confidence in Our Work, Twenty-five
minutes.
2. The Hen and Her Family. Fifteen
minutes.
3. Swine Raising. Fifteen minutes.
4. Skilled Labor on the Farm. Fifteen
minutes.
5. Growing and Marketing Peaches.
Twenty minutes.
6. Corn. Twenty minutes.
7. Field Management. (Illustrated.)
Twenty minutes.
8. Our County *Fairs. Fifteen minutes.
9. Old and New Methods. Fifteen minutes.
10. Can a Young Renter Hope to Own
a Farm? Twenty minutes.
11. The Sampson Fox. Twenty minutes.
Night.
12. Children of the Farm. Thirty minutes.
Night.
13. Shall We Farm? Forty minutes.
Night.
C. G. Williams, Gustavus, 0. (eight weeks - $428.71)
1. Fighting a Drought. Twenty-five
minutes.
2. Why I Built a Silo. Thirty minutes.
3. Feeding the Dairy Cow. Thirty minutes.
4. What Crops Should the Farmer Sell?'
Twenty-five minutes.
5. My Experience with Potatoes. Twenty-five
minutes.
6. The Round Year at Elmwood. Thirty-five
minutes.
7. Commercial Fertilizers. Thirty
minutes.
8. A Working Library for the Farmer.
Twenty-five minutes,
9. What About Our Schools? Thirty
minutes. Night.
10. The Farmer's Relation to His Fellows.
Thirty minutes. Night.
J. E. Wing Mechanicsburg, 0. (two weeks - $99.40)
1. Suggestions on Clover Seeding. Twenty
minutes.
2. What About that Thin-Soiled Field?
Twenty minutes.
3. Where Shall I Sow Alfalfa? Fifteen
minutes.
4. Some Old Crops that are New to
Us. Twenty minutes.
5. The Making of the Shepherd (How
to Keep the Boys on the Farm). Twenty minu tes.
6. "Feed My Lambs." Thirty minutes.
7. Barns and the Use of Them. Thirty
minutes.
8. The Cattle on the Thousand Hills.
Thirty minutes.
9. Suggestions to Cattle Feeders.
Thirty minutes.
10. Little Grains of Sand. Thirty
minutes. Night.