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eating too little. I spent a week in Brother McGowan's county 

 about a year ago and I never had such a time in my life eating. 

 There is where they have pound cake, sponge calce, layer cake and 

 buckwheat cakes for breakfast and I never had such a time eating 

 cake in all my experience. I will have to tell you a story about a 

 little boy eating at the table: They had cherry pudding and this little 

 fellow could eat and eat and went on and eat and one day he had as 

 much cherry pudding as he could get away with and he went out and 

 straightened himself up and said: ''My! I wish I was all belly." 



MR. STOUT: I had not intended to get up but I thought it was 

 about time to rise in self-defense. I happened to come from a 

 very impoverished section of our State. Schuylkill county is not 

 known as a very thriving agricultural county and that is why I am 

 so lank and lean; but in traveling around among farmers I think 

 I can always pick out the farmer, the actual farmer, from his ap- 

 pearance. Whenever I see one of those corpulent, fat men, I come 

 to the conclusion that he does his farming by proxy, or is one of 

 those farmers that farms other farmers. 



MR. FENSTEMAKER: I remember when Dr. Barnes Was a mem- 

 ber of this Board he employed Mrs. Rohrer, the famous cook, to 

 speak at Cooperstown institute, and our wives were very anxious to 

 hear her, and when Dr. Barnes introduced her he said he took great 

 pride in the fact on account of her reputation and ability as a 

 cook. She did not say a word about cooking or baking but spoke 

 about the well-fed man and also spoke about the bulls and bears of 

 Wall Street and how well they ate. 



MR. PERHAM: I wish to say a word about the telephone. If 

 three or four. got together to build a telephone they will be sur- 

 prised to see how fast it grows. We have now six hundred and 

 the only difQculty is to keep the farmers off of it because it gets 

 so heavy w^e can't use it. The revenues received from it pay to keep 

 it up; we are assessed two dollars a year, which pays for keeping 

 uj) the line. They own their own stock. We started out with 

 selling stock at ten dollars a share and now it is worth thirty 

 dollars. 



A Member: What is the cost for the service? 



MR. PERHAM: Two dollars a year. We have six or seven cen- 

 trals and it is growing very rapidly. 



AMember: Do I understand the gentleman that the two dollars 

 covers the expense of 'phoning, or the expense of keeping it in 

 repair. I would like to know what it really costs these people? 



MR. MILLER: I had that 'phone four years and it did not cost 

 me five cents. 



