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PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

OFFICIAL LIST.

JOHN HAMILTON, Secretary,
State College, Centre County.

A. L. MARTIN, Dep'y Sec'y and Director of Farmers' Institutes, Enon Valley, Lawrence County.

LEVI WELLS. Dairy and Food Commissioner,

To May 16, 1900,

Spring Hill, Bradford County.

JESSE K. COPE,

From June 15, 1900,

West Chester, Chester County.

BENJ. F. MACCARTNEY, Economic Zoologist,
Hamilton, Jefferson County.

J. T. ROTHROCK, Commissioner of Forestry,
West Chester, Chester County.

LEONARD PEARSON, State Veterinarian,
Philadelphia.

M. D. LICHLITER, Chief Clerk,
Pittsburg.

GEORGE G. HUTCHISON, Clerk, Dairy and Food Commissioner,
Warriors' Mark, Huntingdon County.

FRANK S. CHAPIN, Clerk, Economic Zoologist,
Milton, Northumberland County.

ROBERT S. CONKLIN, Clerk, Commissioner of Forestry,
Columbia, Lancaster County.

LEWIS VANDERSLOOT, Stenographer,
York, York County.

GEORGE F. BARNES, Messenger,

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1-7-1901

Rossville, York County.

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REPORT

OF THE

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.

HARRISBURG, PA., January 1, 1901.

Hon. William A. Stone, Governor of Pennsylvania:

Sir: In compliance with the requirements of sections 2, 3 and 6 of the act of Legislature of March 13, 1895, establishing this Department, I have the honor to present herewith my report for the year 1900, being the sixth annual report of the Department of Agriculture of Pennsylvania.

The year 1900 has been one of prosperity for the farmers of Pennsylvania. The prices of all farm products have been above those of the previous year, and with the exception of hay, the yield has been up to the average of other years. The demand for articles produced by our mills and mines has stimulated mining and manufacture, thereby securing profitable and regular employment to a large number of laborers whose daily needs for food and clothing have furnished a remunerative home market for most of the farmers' crops.

The price of improved farm land in Pennsylvania has advanced, and there is no lack of tenants for farms that are at all favorably located and in good condition. Poor, run-down or badly located farms are not wanted, and in the same class are poor, run-down or ill-bred animals. The complaints of low prices and hard times among the farmers of the State come chiefly, either from political agitators whose occupation is to beget discontent, or from the occupants of ill conditioned farms, or the owners of ill-bred and unprofitable stock.

Agriculture in this State was never more advanced than it is now, and agricultural people in Pennsylvania never had better op

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