The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-15


Agriculture will conduct four Farm
ers' Institutes in Wayne county dur
ing the month of December. The
times and places of meeting of these
public exercises are as follows:
Honesdale, Court House, Dec. 16.
Galilee, NJ e. church, Dec. 1S and
19.
Calkins, Dec. 20 and 81.
Beachlake, Dec. % and 23.
The exercises are public and free,
and everybody is invited to attend.
Local committees have been appoint
ed in each town to look after the
preliminary details of the conven-
ton. w. e. Perham, Pleasant
Mount, is chairman of the instl-
tutes.
Educational and dairy, stock and
orchard sessions will be held at each
convention, when addresses will be
delivered by DR.. M. E. Conrad,
Westgrove, Pa, H. M. Anderson,
New Park, Pa; DR.. j. H. Funk,
Boyertown, Pa; r. P. Kester,
Grampian, Pa. Mrs. Geo. e. Mon
roe will speak at the Hamlin con-
vention which is to be held there
January 1S to 20, 1912.
A question box will be a feature
VI JIt lnoIlJuISo. LII IA6 dlOCuS-
sions all sectarian and partisan top
les are excluded. AS these meetings
are for the benefit of farmers and
their families and all others who
may be interested, the Institutes are
held either in halls or churches. At
least three State speakers will be in
attendance at each meeting.
Music, properly conducted, has a
place on every program, but is to be
introduced as a recreation. $25 is
appropriated to each two-days in
stitute, to be used for local expenses
such as printing programs, rent of
halls, necessary expenses of local
managers, etc.
Brief biographical sketches of the
institute lectures who have been as
signed to Wayne county follow:
H. M. Anderson was born August
26, 1877, on the farm which he has
recently purchased from his father
He graduated from the York Col
legiate Institute in 1894, since
which time he has devoted practical
ly all his time to agriculture. Has
been for quite a number of years
growing very profitable farm crops
in what has until very recent years
been called the York County Bar
rens. He is particularly interested
in growing alfalfa, potatoes and
corn and is doing experimental work
with these crops; has an apple or
chard of which he is very proud and
is close student of modern methods
of increasing soil fertility,
DR.. Milton E. Conrad was born in
southern Chester county, in 1851, of
an ancestry of successful agricultur-
toto IL nh hi, 11, -,
the public and high schools and
Millersville State Normal school. He
was for some years engaged in farm
ing in his home locality; later TAX
ing the course in veterinary medicine
at the University of Pennsylvania,
graduating in 1891, in which he has
for several years been lecturer of
Dairy and Milk Inspection and Vet
erinary Obstetrics. Throughout his
veterinary career he has been close
ly identified with dairy interests,
practicing for some years in dairy
locality, and having for over ten
years given his entire time as In
spector and Consulting Expert for a
large number of the dairies furnish
ing milk to the City of Philadelphia
from Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Maryland and Delaware.
]. H. Funk, M. D., 9Th generation
from Bishop Henry Funk, who emil
grated from Holland in 1919, was
born in Lower Providence, Mont
gomery county, Pa, was brought up
on his fathers large dairy farm; at
tended public schools in the winter.
In 1S59-1860 attended Freeland
Seminary (now Ursinus College, /;
began the study of medicine in the
spring of 1868 and received his di-
ploma as Doctor of Medicine from
the University of Pennsylvania in the
spring of 1865; opened the first drug
store in Boyertown and run it sew
eral years in connection with the
practice of medicine. Served several
years as the Burgess of Boyertown,
also as Town Councillor and eight
years as School Director. Always be-
ing in love with horticulture, pur-
suits,he planted a large orchard in
1879. In the year 1896, he planted
another apple and peach orchard and
has continued planting until he has
about fifty acres of the most profit
able orchards in the state. Such a
thing as "off-year" bearing is un-
several years Pennsylvania State
Pomologist.
R. P. Kester was borR in Clear
field county, Pa, Jan. IS, 1867. He
now resides on the farm which his
maternal great grandfather took
up" and partially cleared nearly loo
years ago. 1t was farmed for SO
years in the old way and the fertility
was depleted until it was one of the
worn-out farms. During the past
few years Mr.. Kester and his young
er brother have been farming and
dairying by modern methods, unit
now even five blades of grass grew
where one grew before. Their lead
ing business is dairying, although
fruit, poultry and trucking receive
attention. He was fifteen years 6
teacher and always a close student.
Mrs. George e. Monroe graduated
from Geneva, N. Y. State Norma
School Classical Course. Taught
two years in Dryden High school
Has lived in her present home, 6
farm of 60 acres, for the past TWEEN
ty-fve years. Before the College O.
Agriculture was founded at Cornell