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Massachusetts. That buildiug will be finished at the time you visit 

 there. If it is not the first of the agricultural group which is to be 

 completed, it comes second in the group, and the third will be the 

 main agricultural building, which is practically provided for by 

 the Legislii ini( ; . t ;. IJut whether this meeting will come at 



the time of the dedication, and the throwing open of that building 

 for use, or not, you will all have the opportunity of viewing it and 

 that is worth a day's visit on a special train which will not cost 

 the Board or the State a cent. I think we can get the railroad 

 company to run a special train there and at the college they will 

 give you a good dinner in the armory. I hope my friend from 

 Clearfield will come to us this time and help us along in our efforts 

 to have this next meeting held in Bellefonte. 



MR. CLARK: I think as the Deputy Secretary has more to do 

 ^^ith that meeting than anybody else, he ought to be heard on this 

 subject. 



MR. MARTIN: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Board of Ag- 

 Fieulture: I have listened witli a great deal of pleasure to the kind 

 invitation which you have received from Bellefonte, by those repre- 

 senting that location, as well as from the gentleman from Clear- 

 field county. My association and connection with the State Board 

 of Agriculture, as you are well aware, is arranged by your having 

 charge of farmers' institutes, county and local, in the different coun- 

 ties of the State. This relationship has been very pleasant in the 

 last five years. I have found you ever willing and ready to take up 

 this v»'ork in a cheerful and most efficient manner. 



As to the selection of a place for holding your semi-annual meet- 

 ing, I beg to say, I have no personal preference. Any locality of 

 easy access by railroad, having abundant hotel accommodations, I 

 assure you, will be acceptable to me. But, my friends, there are 

 other considerations which, if it were in place and this were the 

 proper time, I would like to suggest. We have come to the time, 

 in the history of the educational part of the farmer's institutes 

 in Pennsylvania, in which those who impart instruction to the farm- 

 ers of the State must be equipped for that work. We have held a 

 number of what are known as annual or ''round up" meetings in 

 Pennsylvania, continuing about two days in duration. We have 

 been exceedingly hurried in all this work, to such an extent that I 

 am impressed with the idea that our next meeting should be one in 

 which greater deliberation should be exercised in the preparation of 

 the program and in the instruction to be there given. This delibera- 

 tion should consist in instruction and adjusted conditions relative to 

 the normal institute lecturer, who goes out in the field the coming- 

 year. It was in my mind, and I want to be frank with you, as insti- 

 tute chairman, to suggest that we make this annual meeting of 



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