634 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



it off but k't i( Ikuc all i( wants. AnotlicM' thought ciime to my 

 miud, when that good paper suggested that the head of the family 

 tell each child wlien it had enough; 1 just thought what a time I 

 would have doing that. 



MR. KAHLER: I raised a pretty large family and I was always 

 more interested in what I had to feed my family than in anything 

 else. I wish to state a little incident: A number of years ago I 

 sent mv bov over to see his uncle, and he was a kind old fellow, 

 and after he sat down to eat at one of their meals, every once in a 

 while he would reach over and put something on the boy's plate, and 

 after while the boy began to cry. The uncle asked: "Benny, what's 

 the matter?" He said: "I can't eat all this stiifr." 1 think, as a rule, 

 it is well to educate them what is best for them; but my heart is too 

 weak to tell them not to eat any more. I think they will know them- 

 selves, if they are kindly spoken to, with reference to what is not 

 good for them. Brother Herr spoke about sending out word to 

 tell our wives what to cook and how to cook it. I don't know what 

 his wife would say, but I know what my wife would say if anybody 

 was to tell her how to cook. 



MR. MILLER: In Somerset county we have about five hundred 

 farmers who control their own 'phones. Our company has about 

 175 'phones alone and they talk about connecting with the rest. One 

 of the great benefits derived from the line is the information we get 

 from the wc^ather bureau; every day we get reports about noon for 

 the next day and you would be surprised how that helps us out. 

 Even this cold winter it tells us about the condition of the weather 

 and gives us notice about storms and bad w-eather and we are in the 

 house and ready for it. 



MR. MARTIN (Deputy Secretary): I have been especially inter- 

 ested in the discussion of the food question. I want to say that 

 I suppose I have traveled up and down this State as frequently 

 as anyone in the house, and I want to bear testimony to one thing, 

 and that is, the wives and those who do the cooking in Pennsylvania 

 need no apology for the quality of the food cooked; but if there 

 should be any exception taken to it, it is this: Of the one million 

 farmers in Pennsylvania, there is food enough cooked to supply 

 another million. That is my conviction and, so far as the farmers' 

 institutes are concerned relative to this question of domestic econ- 

 omy and the science of cooking, and all that, it is a little this way: 

 We find that the difficulty of procuring persons versed in the chem- 

 istry of foods, is a very serious problem. In many places in which 

 institutes were held, especially in one county, there was a school 

 of domestic science and the teacher took her entire class to our 



