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tell us; but my friend Hutchison, Northup and Father Herr have 

 all talked about it. 1 think our inward feelings will show us when 

 we have enough and we can generally slop. I want to say if you 

 send out bulletins to the people of Pennsylvania, instructing them 

 how to cook, my wife and the wife of the Deputy Secretary of Agri- 

 culture would say: '''We know what to cook and how to cook it." 

 I have traveled through the State and I want to say that they 

 cook things well all over the countr}', and that farmers' wives 

 are good cooks, as a general thing. All over the Western states, 

 and everyplace you go, you will hear the expression w^here you 

 happen to be at mealtime: ''I hardly know what to cook for that 

 man, he is from the State of Pennsylvania and the women of Penn- 

 sylvania, they say, are the best cooks in the world." I think the 

 cooking of Pennsylvania women is all right and if Mr. Hutchison 

 don't know when he has enough some one sitting at the table next 

 to him can tramp on his toes. 



MR. WOODWARD: The subject is of most intense interest to 

 me. I spent some time on last Sunday reading an article, in the 

 February number of The Century, written by Dr. Tracy, of New 

 York, under the title, '*How to Live Long," and no matter how well 

 our wives cook, and the Secretary will bear me out that I have a 

 wife who knows how to cook, yet this article appeals to every man 

 and woman how to eat and what to eat. I think if you would ex- 

 pend thirty-five cents in the purchase of that magazine in order to 

 read that article, it would be money well spent. 



MR. CLARK: I don't want to talk on the food question, but I 

 would like to speak on the paper read by Mr. Rodgers, on electric 

 railroads and telephone comi)anies. I was very much pleased with 

 the ideas he suggested of the trolley line and its use to the agricul- 

 tural interests of the State. While his talk was almost entirely 

 confined to the trolley line, we find the question itaches out to the 

 telephone line also. I don't believe there is any one thing that will 

 be as much benefit to the farmers in general as good telephone lines 

 throughout the country. My attention was called, particularly, 

 to this in the AN'est, especially in Iowa, where the telephone lines 

 reach almost every farm hom(>. I have a friend engaged in buying 

 hogs for a Des Moines packing company and he had taken some hogs 

 to market and I said: "^'How many hogs did you take to the market?" 

 He replied, "I took in five car loads." I added, ''When did you buy 

 them?" And he said, "I bought them last evening." I asked, "You 

 did not ride over the country and hunt them up?" And he replied, 

 ''No, what one farmer knows they all know. I called upon t}w 

 'phone John Smith and asked him how many hogs have you for tjie 

 market in morning, and he called to a neighbor aud he asked hbn 



