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is much inlorcstcd in the work, and throiijjh liis oITorls two cow test- 

 in<? associations have been organized in tlie Hiale; one at Stale Col- 

 lege, and one at Chadd's Ford. 



The Daii-y Division, as I said before, is very much interested in 

 this work, because of the results which have followed it in places 

 where it has been tried. It stimulates interest in better dairying; 

 not only in the development of better cows, but in better feeding, 

 better housing and better care of the animals, better care of the 

 product, it fosleis communiM- ,-;pirit, because it is co-operative, and 

 it stimulates interest in the work on the farm, aud that is what is 

 needed most of all in a great many cases. 



I have gone over this rather hurriedly, because the time is short, 

 but if you know of any coimnunities whei'e there are twenty-six 

 men who would he willing to jiay .*?L.OO per cow per year toward de- 

 fraying the expenses connected with this work, and let it be said 

 in passing that this dollar goes to paying the salary of the man, 

 the Dairy Division shall be glad to assist you through Prof. Van 

 Norman in getting an association organized. We will also, as far 

 as our facilities permit, assist the association by furnishing books 

 and blanks for the record work until such time as the State may 

 make an appropriation for providing this material. 



THE REQUISITES OF A GOOD INSTITUTE LECTUEER 



By PEOF. EDWIN VAN ALSXYNE, Kittderltook , N. Y. 



I trust that none of you will think it presumptions, for the 

 stranger within your gate, to have selected the above topic. Should 

 you consider me as one, "sitting in the seat of the scornful," or like 

 the colored brother, Avho at a funeral of one of his race, pushed 

 aside the wailing mourners and said, "If you wish to see grief, 

 let me come," 1 should repent in sack cloth and ashes at having 

 even thought of presenting the suggestion that follows: For while 

 your innate courtesy would prevent any audible comments coming 

 to my ears, I am sure I could read in your faces th© comment, "What 

 does this babbler say?" or, "Physician, heal thyself." Rather con- 

 sider me as one among you who serveth. 



The subject matter of this paper I have been incubating on for 

 about a year, to deliver at the request of Commissioner Pearson, be- 

 fore my fellow-workers in New York. Not because "I have by any 

 means attained, or am already perfect," but that a training under 

 such men as J. S. Woodward, Prof. I. P. Roberts, Col. F. D. Curtis, 

 G. T. Powell, and an experience and association of over twenty 

 years, with some of the best men in my own State, as well as those 

 whom we are all delighted to honor, for their work's sake, from the 

 broad field of our own country, and our Canadian cousins across 

 the border, and not least among the number some of your own Penn- 

 sylvania men with whom I have worked both at home and abroad 



