No. 6. DEPARTMENT ©F AGRICULTUIIE. 31.1 



l^KOCEEDJNGS OF THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF 

 FARMERS' INSTITUTE MANAGERS AND LECTURERS, 

 HELD IN THE COURT HOUSE, HUNTINGDON, PA., JUNE 2, 

 3 AND 4, 1903. 



Tuesday, June 2, 1903, 7.30 P. M. 



HON. A. L. MARTIN, Deputj- Secretary of Agriculture and Direc- 

 tor of Institutes, called the meeting to order promptly at the time 

 designated and announced the Chairman for the evening, Mr. George 

 G. Hutchison, of Warriors' Mark, Pa. 



ADDRESS OF CHAIRMAN. 



My friends, it is a pleasure to welcome you here this evening to 

 Huntingdon county. We are delighted to have you meet with us. 

 It v/as somewhat uncertain at the last meeting whether we would be 

 favored with your presence, but by solicitation on our part we se- 

 cured the sanction of the State College to have the meeting in our 

 county, ^^'e have been desirous for r ome years of having you meet 

 \\'ith us, but other places seemed to demand the meetings and, as we 

 are modest in this county, we yielded to their desires; but after cor- 

 responding with the State College they kindly granted or agreed to 

 withdraw their grant of the meeting at that place and allow us to 

 have it here. You have received a cordial welcome to-daj' from the 

 Mayor and he has assured you that the best that this town can 

 afford is yours; but in behalf of the farmers and agriculturists of 

 the county, I would say, we are delighted to have you with us. 



In going through the county on the main line of the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad, you are not very much impressed with the agricwltural 

 interests of our county, as ti.e railroad leads along the river, and 

 the blutTs and hills are not the best presentation of the section, so 

 far as agriculture is concerned; but I assure you that lying out from 

 the river we have some of the finest agricultural sections in Penn- 

 sylvania. That may seem a little egotistic to our friends from 

 Chester., Lancaster, York, Lebanon and other eastern counties; but 

 when r tell you that we have the finest limestone belt in the north- 

 ern and^ westeru end of this county than anywhere in Pennsylvania; 

 that from this county, Blair and Centre, more limestone is taken 



