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be no question about tbe support of a bill of this kind. You want 

 to go out and see what others are doing. We must have this law. 

 If we don't get it this time, we will get it the next time. It is the 

 ambition of everjbod}^ that has any interest at all in the live stock 

 or agricultural interests in Pennsylvania, to have a State Fair and 

 one that we can be proud of, and we can have it. The great trouble 

 with the agricultural interest in Pennsylvania — the great troubles 

 are that we have a great city in the eastern part of our State, that 

 has a larger population than some of the Western states, and we 

 have a city in the western part of the State that has nearly as many; 

 those two interests never consider agriculture in any way whatever. 



I was in Washington City a year or two ago and called to see Sec- 

 retary Wilson on some matters in regard to agricultural matters that 

 I considered right important, and the first dash out of the box was 

 "What do you mean, to come here and talk about these matters in 

 Pennsylvania? You have no agricultural interests in your State." 

 He didn't mean just what he said, but it implied an impression on 

 his mind, and on the minds of everybody else. People from outside 

 hear of your iron industries, your coal industries, your manufac- 

 tures, and everything on God's green earth except your agriculture 

 and your live stock. They think you have no live stock in Pennsyl- 

 vania and no agricultural interest in Pennsylvania. Statistics are 

 not looked up and they do not realize the facts of existing conditions 

 because we have nothing to represent our live stock interests, or 

 our agricultural interests in the way of an annual show, such as 

 these other states have that bring the topics to the minds of the 

 people outside of the State. 



I promised you that T wouldn't annoy you with a long talk. I am 

 glad to have the opportunity to say what I have said, and I do hope 

 you will think as I do and earnestly work for the State Fair. 



MR. HUTCHISON: We have with us a farmer that farms quite ex- 

 tensively throughout the State, in the person of Dr. Schaeffer. He is 

 an ex-officio member of the Board. I am sure we should all be glad 

 to hear from him. 



The CHAIR: We would all be very glad to hear from Dr. Schaef- 

 fer. 



DR. SCHAEFFER: Fellow-farmers: I own a little farm down in 

 Berks county, although somebody else has to do the work on it, and 

 because of my ownership of that farm, by friend Hutchison seems 

 to have a notion that I know something about farming, probably 

 because I once showed him how to plant a tree up here on Capitol 

 Hill. I don*t wish to take up any time in making a speech because 

 a very important organization is to meet right after this Board ad- 

 journs; that is an allied agricultural organization for the promotion 

 of agriculture in other ways, and as I am anxious to have that body 

 meet, it would be very much out of place for me to make a speech 

 here. I hope after you have finished your business and adjourned, 

 those of you who are interested will come to the front and attend 

 the meeting of that organization which I deem of very great im- 

 portance. 



