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MR. WOODWARD: I request that the meeting be held at Belle- 

 fonte. It was at one time tlioiigiit last year you would meet at 

 State College, but for certain reasons it was abandoned. Our most 

 important hotel, the UniAersity Inn, was destroyed by fire. It will 

 be with difficulty that we can make our friends as comfortable as 

 we would like to have them and we ask them to make their meeting 

 at Bellefonte, where there is flue accommodations and where you 

 will be in the center of Pennsylvania and of the universe and have 

 the best water in the United States, and be in company with the 

 best ex-Governor in the United States. The proposition is to ask 

 you to meet at Bellefoute and then we want you to give us one day 

 at the State College. We propose to have a special train and feed 

 you once at the college and bring you back to Bellefonte for the 

 evening meeting. We invite you to come to Bellefonte and we will 

 come down and meet you there. I hope, Mr. Chairman, this will be 

 accepted in the best faith and accepted so thoroughly that nobody 

 else will think of making mention of any other place. 



MR. HUTCHISON: I wish to second that request and state that 

 Bellefonte is one of the nicest towns to visit in Pennsylvania. The 

 hotel accommodations are ample and the water, which is one of the 

 requisites to a pleasant and successful meeting, is abundant and 

 as good people as live on the face of this earth live there; I say 

 this because it is only twenty-one miles to Warriors' Mark. 



MR. NELSON: I would like to suggest that this Board meeting 

 be held at Clearfield. I believe we have as good hotel and railroad 

 facilities there as anywhere else. We handled the State Grange 

 last year. I assure you that you will secure a good welcome for 

 yourselves and the cause of agriculture. 



GENERAL BEAVER: I also add my recommendation for the 

 meeting of the Board to be held at Bellefonte rather than at the 

 State College. I know the members will be interested in the ques- 

 tion why we ask you to come to Bellefonte rather than to the State 

 College. I believe there is not a place in that town, or in the col- 

 lege, that is not occupied by students or professors. They are over- 

 taxed for accommodations and that is the reason why the invita- 

 tion does not come from the college, for there is a special reason for 

 going to the college on account of its close relationship with agri 

 culture. Colonel Woodward told me that he had met the repre- 

 sentative of A. A. Reed & Company, the largest manufacturers of 

 dairy implements in this country, or at least one of the largest, 

 and that industry had gone into other states and he was told that 

 we had the best dairy building, at the State College, in the United 

 States. There is only one that approaches it and that is in 



