6»8 Annual report of the Off. doc. 



Ml{. 1\0I)(;KKS: I \v:mt lo make an apology. I was on the pi'o- 

 gnmi to write on tlie telephone, but at the executive committee 

 meeting' it was suggested I hat we were to be short and I did not 

 mention it and at the hotel, in the presence of Brother Holman, I 

 destroyed it. 



The following resolution, relative to the employment of a stenog- 

 rapher and typewriter in the oHice of the Economic Zoologist, was 

 offered by Mr. McGowan: 



"Whereas, We have learned that the office of the Economic Zoologist is not 

 regularly equipped with a stenographer, and as it is very important that we 

 as practical producers be supplied with full and complete information from 

 this important ofRee, both by personal correspondence and its publications; 

 therefore, be it 



"Resolved, That we, the members of the State Board of Agriculture of Penn- 

 sylvania, do hereby respectfully request the Governor of this Commonwealth, 

 and the Secretary of Agriculture to aid us by providing at once means for 

 the employment of a stenographer and a scientific assistant for the office of 

 the Economic Zoologist, until the next session of the Legislature, when 

 proper appropriation for the same should be made. We ask this for the sake 

 of receiving the full benefit of the efficient work of this important office." 



MIL McGOAVAN: I fully endorse this resolution and am heartily 

 in favor of it. I am of the conviction that it is very deserving. 

 The Governor stated this afternoon that the Economic Zoologist 

 is burning the midnight oil for our interests. 1, therefore, move its 

 adoption. 



MK. WOODWARD: I second this motion. 1 know the man is 

 being thoroughly overworked in his desire to do his full duty to 

 the people throughout the State. The time has never been in the 

 State of Pennsylvania in which the matters of which his Depart- 

 ment treats have been of . such vital interest as they are to-day. 

 In the last three months I have had mv attention brought to the 

 fact that unless something was done the farmers could not furnish 

 their own fruit but tliat it must be raised by specialists and the 

 farmers must buy their fruit from these commercial men who make 

 a specialty of it. I know the Divisions of the Department are doing 

 their very best in every direction. I know the head of the Depart- 

 ment is doing his best to sustain those Divisions; but it seems to me 

 that this is of vital importance to us to-day. The development of 

 fruit growing is going to make such a demand for the destruction of 

 those pestiverous pests and I know Prof. Surface is overworked. 

 I know of it of my own knowledge and I stand here to-day to testify 

 that I never heard the Governor of Pennsylvania make a speech 

 that the farmers should appreciate more than that made by him 

 to-day. The whole State is getting this information and they are 

 writing hundreds and hundreds of letters and it is impossible. 



