No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 821 



(lie front, S feet deep and 8 feet high, and of the best phite ghiss. 

 ^\'e would like to see you represented and hope that you will be 

 able to arrange with the Commission to set aside enough money to 

 make a creditable showing there. 



The PKESIDENT: The subject seems like an important question, 

 whether a business of thirty-five million dollars a year should not 

 be represented at this latest, and I suppose, the largest of the In- 

 ternational Expositions. The question is before you for considera- 

 tion. 



A Member: 1 would like to ask whether the appropriation made 

 for this State is in part available for the purpose. 



COL. J. A. WOODWARD: The Commission has not yet made 

 any appropriation for the Dairy Exhibits. The attitude of the 

 Commission is that it looks upon dairying as a manufacturing enter- 

 prise like the other manufacturing enterprises of the State, and for 

 these they have not made any appropriation. 1 have been instructed 

 by the executive officers to ascertain the sentiment of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Dairy Union upon the question. I do not think I am authorized 

 to make any promises for the Commission, but they have requested 

 me to ascertain the mind of the Dairy Union upon the matter of 

 making an exhibit. Concerning the inquiries I have made I do not 

 find much of a spirit in the direction of making the exhibit. People 

 seem to think that the dairy business is one that goes itself and that 

 it does not need any advertising there. I would like to ascertain the 

 sentiment of this society' in order to report to the Commission. Up 

 to this time there has been no appropriation made; certainly none 

 made in the general agricultural appropriation that would be avail- 

 able for this purpose. W^hether or not one could be made if the 

 Dairy Union were willing to make the effort, I do not know. Per- 

 haps the Commission might find some one to aid the enterprise. I 

 hope I have made myself clear, that the Commission simply au- 

 thorized me to come and inquire of the official dairymen of the State 

 the sentiment in the state, and whether they had any request or 

 recommendation to make to the Commission. The Commission has 

 expressed a very great deal of interest in the matter, and hopes 

 that the dairymen are going to take the matter up and make an ex- 

 hibit. 



MR. W. C. NORTON: I do not believe that the individual dairy- 

 men of the State will take up this matter. I see no reason why the 

 appro]>riation should not be used to further the dairy interests of 

 this i^tate. If my recollection serves me right, there was nn appro- 



