No 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 22ir 



yvi only [lailially di'\ eloped in piuiJuiUun lo our ualural lacililics. 

 Cc)iijpariu{^' our vast amd lerlile acreage with older countries enjoyiu<^ 

 uo better advantages thau we do, we lind the results obtained by 

 them so far surpass our feeble elTorts as to make us bow down our 

 heads in shame. Look at little Denmark, with one-third the area of 

 Pennsylvania, keeping her two million cattle, feeding the epicures 

 of the world with '^gilt-edge" butter and cheese, while Pennsylvatiia 

 buys more dairy products thaii she makes. And France, with her 

 well regulated stud laws, controlling the selection of the sires of her 

 horses, enabliug her to produce a uniform grade and quality of horses 

 that find a ready market at very remunerative i)rices awaiting them, 

 whenever she has a surplus. Look at England and Scotland, who 

 so fastidiously guard their sheep industry, which has come to them by 

 inheritan(;e through generations loug since departed, and is now the 

 envy of the whole world. 



Do these countries possess any natural advantages that we do not? 

 Is there anything there to surpass our own green hillsides and bounti- 

 fully watered valleys? Can they raise foods that we cannot, that 

 makes it possible for them to produce more and better horses, beef, 

 butter or sheep than can be raised in Pennsylvania, where the best 

 feed grows in abundance, and Yankee wit, perservance and ingenuity 

 reign supreme? What country can produce a feed that will equal 

 the corn plant, which yields such abundant crops upon our Pennsyl- 

 vania farms? Theti what is wanting that our grand old State should 

 enjoy the same place in the markets of the world for live stock and 

 its products that offer the greatest compensation to the producer? 



It is upon live stock that all farming operations are based. 

 Imagine a county, township, or even one farm where no animals ex- 

 isted,— what could be more nearly dead, desolate or stagnated. The 

 animals make the market for the rough products of the farm. They 

 aie the manufacturing medium of the farmer and the fertilizing 

 medium of the farm, and may be compared to the machinery of a mill 

 or factory. For it is by reason of their presence that most of the 

 crude pioducts of the farm are converted into marketable products 

 for human food. The importance of our domestic animals cannot be 

 over estimated; nor can they receive much care and attention, for it 

 is largely by their thrift we prosper. 



While Pennsylvania possesses within her borders almost ooe hun- 

 dred and fifty million dollars worth (|150,0()0,00()) of live stock, you^ 

 committee thinks that if more care and intelligence were practiced, 

 an increase in the live stock population would result in a marked in- 

 crease in the revenue. This population, and valnntin^i thereof, as 

 nearl\' as we could ascertain, is ma<h' u|) as follows: 



