Seventy-Tiiikd Annual Report 1277 



great body known as the New York State Agricultural Society, 

 will receive at his hands his most careful and respectful con- 

 sideration. 



Your President, Mr. Sisson, has an announcement to make. 



The President : I am sure that all of the members of the 

 New York State Agricultural Society and everyone interested in 

 any way in the upbuilding of agriculture in this state will be 

 pleased to hear the telegram which I am about to read: 



"Ames, Iowa, January 14, 1913. 



George W. Sisson, Jr., Presiderit, Yc?y York State Agricultural 

 Society, Alhany, N. Y.: 



Greetings to you and all members of the New York State Agri- 

 cultural Societv. Best wishes that vour meetins; will add much 

 to the constructive record of the societv in the interest of farmers 

 and better farming. Seventy years of service and yet greater 



opportunities are ahead. t-, . -t. ,, 



^ Kaymond a. Pearson." 



Commissioner Huson : Some weeks ago I had the pleasure 

 of listening to Mr. Ilarvie Jordan, while attending a session of 

 the Farmers' National Congress, at New Orleans. If his address 

 this evening impresses you as it impressed me at that time I 

 know you w^ill all feel that his journey here from the South has 

 not been in vain. It gives me great pleasure, I assure you, to 

 present to you at this time Honorable Ilarvie Jordan, of Atlanta, 

 Georgia, Chairman of the Agricultural Committee of Southern 

 Commercial Congress. 



COOPERATION AND RURAL FINANCE 



Harvie Jordan 



Mr. Pr-esident and Members of the Society: I am deeply 

 appreciative of the courtesy and cordiality of the invitation ex- 

 tended me by your Honorable President to address you on this 

 occasion. I esteem it a valued distinction to be invited to a place 

 on the program of so old and honorable an organization as the 

 New York State Agricultural Society. You have invited a farmer 

 from the empire state of the 'South to address the farmers of the 

 empire state of the American Union. 



