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has made the brute to produce its kind, corn to be heaped up in the 

 granaries of the wo'rld, has done the past a far greater and more 

 beneficial result to humanity. (Applause). 



To be more personal, it seems to me, if you gentlemen, who are 

 connected with the agricultural interests of this State, will look 

 at the way our w'ork is now being done and the results which are now 

 being accomplished, you will have reason for very great satisfaction. 

 In the Message which I sent to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, 

 upon coming here to assume the duties of Governor of the Com- 

 monwealth, I suggested going further than we had done iu the State 

 of Pennsylvania, w^here the greater part of our taxes are raised by 

 imposing duties upon corporations, and to look at those tremendous 

 natural deposits which we have, our coal, our oil, our iron, and to 

 see the tremendous fortunes which have been accumulated out of 

 those natural deposits, so that now the results of that accumula- 

 tion are being scattered far and wide over the world, and for us to 

 say that, in some way, the taxation should be imposed upon the out- 

 put of those deposits to a still greater extent, while the ordinary 

 property values in the counties which are made up of land values, 

 should have the taxes now imposed removed. That suggestion 

 bore no fruit, except in so far as it may have been lodged in the 

 minds of men. 



In the organization of the Department very much, it seems to 

 me, has been done. I see from your report that you appreciate what 

 has been done. As is properly said, no laws enforce themselves, and 

 there is little benefit and little wisdom in the mere passage of laws. 

 After all it comes down to the question of the enforcement of them, 

 and I am led to believe, with respect to the pure food laws, there is 

 no other Commonwealth in the United States where the same atten- 

 tion and the same energy is being given to it as in the State of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture is a plain farmer, 

 one from among you. lie is looking after the interests of his De- 

 partment, and doing it well, and I am pleased to see from that same 

 report that you appreciate the efforts he is making. 



As to the Economic Zoologist — and how that strange term ever 

 <;ame about, for the life of me I cannot understand, he is really an 

 Entomologist — he is giving his time and thought and care to the sub- 

 ject of the injurious insects that are destructive to the crops of 

 the farmer and, especially, this San Jos6 Scale. You have him here 

 among you and you see what lie is doing. I may say, for myself, 

 I never knew a man that was more earnest in the work he has nn 

 dertaken than that same gentleman. You can find him there, if you 

 will allow the expression, at night with the oil lamp or the gas burn- 

 intr. looking after the interests of you gentlemen in this direction 



