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and I think there are twenty-two of the others, and if they come in 

 with their credentials at this meeting, of course they will expire 

 in 1908, and that will be all right. The reason, I would say — and I 

 expect the Secretary will bear me out — that these different coun- 

 ties have failed to elect members to the State Board, or probably 

 some of these agricultural societies may have died, and there is 

 no organization there to elect members to the State Board, but if 

 we just leave it alone, it will work itself out even without any fur- 

 ther trouble or discussion about it. 



MK. FENSTEMAKER: I was elected to fill an unexpired term, 

 although I didn't know when the term of my predecessor expired. 

 I think last year I was on the list expiring in 1906; it is 1907 now; 

 I can't tell just the proper date. If my predecessor's term did not 

 expire until two years after, it would expire this year, so that I do 

 not know where I stand on that matter; probably Mr. Herr would 

 know better than I do. 



The question being on the motion, it was agreed to. 



The CHAIR: The next thing we have on the program, is a dis- 

 cussion opened by Mr. Clark, of Westmoreland, on the subject of 

 "Marketing Farm Products." 



Mr. Clark's address is as follows: 



MARKETING FARM PRODUCTS. 



By M. N. Clark, Claridge. Pa. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: It seems to me that one 

 of the most important subjects has been left in the back-ground. 

 We have been talking for many days, weeks, months and years about 

 the growing of our crops, and there has been very little said about 

 the marketing of them; yet you will realize at once it is a very diffi- 

 cult matter of raising the crops. The two questions are so closely 

 allied. 



You will realize with me, you have met cases of this kind very 

 frequently, that men are seemingly scientific farmers, and good 

 crop producers, but utt<'r fjilures when it comes to the marketing 

 of crops. I do not need 1 c v:o far from my home, and I presume you 

 don't, to find that that is the case. 



I was first led to notice this matter more fully few years 

 ago in a trip I made up through the Northwest. I went through 

 the State of Indiana at a time when the farmers were very much 



