PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. OFFICIAL LIST. N. B. CRITCHFIELD, Secretary, A. L. MARTIN, Dep'y Sec'y and Director of Farmers' Institutes, M. D. LICHLITER, Chief Clerk, E. C. FIRST, Stenographer, GEORGE F. BARNES, Messenger, B. H. WARREN, Dairy and Food Commissioner, O. D. SCHOCK, Assistant to Dairy and Food Commissioner, Hamburg, Berks County. MAY V. RHONE, Clerk, Dairy and Food Commissioner, ROSS R. SEAMAN, Messenger, Dairy and Food Commissioner, Harrisburg. H. A. SURFACE, Economic Zoologist, G. G. HUTCHISON, Clerk, Economic Zoologist, LEONARD PEARSON, State Veterinarian, Philadelphia. NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. Department of Agriculture, HARRISBURG, PA., January, 1, 1904. To His Excellency, SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER, Governor of Pennsylvania: Sir: In compliance with the requirements of the act of Assembly creating a Department of Agriculture of Pennsylvania, I have the honor herewith to submit my report of said Department for the year 1903. CROP VALUES. The year just closed has been a fairly prosperous year for the farmers of the State. The total value of the cereal crops produced during the year is estimated to be $65,603,082, the value of the several distinct grain crops being as follows: Corn, $25,905,153; wheat, $20,570,371; oats, $12,795,659; rye, $356,846; buckwheat, $2,663,180 and barley, $105,873. Some of the other crops produced during the year are estimated as follows: Hay, $52,675,083, potatoes, $13,775,112, and tobacco $1,642,207, making the total value of farm crops, exclusive of live stock, dairy products, poultry and other products of the animal industry of the State, as well as all kinds of fruit, $133,695,484. ANIMAL INDUSTRY. The value of the products of the animal industry of the State is more difficult to estimate. The remarkable development in recent years of the live stock industry in the states west of the Missouri river has done much to diminish the live stock production of this, |