200 ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



I have probably deviated from the subject, gentlemen, in making 

 an address of welcome, and gone into a matter that has sometimes 

 impressed me very strongly as I have seen young men who were 

 able to make a succes on the farm, go into our cities and not make 

 a great success. It has impressed me, gentlemen, and I have 

 thought that during your considerations of how to make farming 

 profitable, you might take into consideration the question of how 

 to raise farmers on the farm. Sometimes the farmer thinks that 

 when he has succeeded in raising a good preacher, doctor, or law- 

 yer, he has placed his boy upon the broad highway to success, but 

 you should know, gentlemen, that some of the noblest characters 

 are found back on the farm. There men are produced who have 

 time to reflect on great questions, and noble characters and great 

 success it attained. And when I say "success" I do not necessarily 

 mean dollars and cents, because a man may be very wealthy, and 

 yet be a great failure, and I say that back on the farm some of 

 the greatest success-es of human life are attained, and if during 

 your deliberations here you have any time to give to the considera- 

 tion of the boy and girl on the farm, you will have taken, to my 

 mind, a step in the right direction. 



So then, ladies and gentlemen of the Farmers' Annual Normal 

 Institute, I again extend to you, on behalf of the citizens of our 

 county and city, a most hearty and sincere welcome. 



RESPONSE TO THE ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



Bt Hon. N. B. Cbitchpield, secretary of Agriculture, Rarrisburg. 



Mr. Chairman, Judge Porter, and Citizens of New Castle and of 

 Lawrence County: It is very gratifying to me, and to those who are 

 here with me to be assured of the cordial welcome, so forcibly and 

 earnestly expressed in the address to which we have just listened. 

 In coming to your beautiful city, we were all impressed with the 

 thought that we were about to east our lot for a few days among 

 a generous and hospitable people. Notwithstanding the fact that 

 many of us have never been here — I know that there are a number 

 of members of our Board who have never visited New Castle — 

 we do not feel that you are strangers to us, or we to you. We 

 have known something of your people; they have been represented 

 upon our Board for a number of years. "By their fruits ye shall 

 know them," is one of the sayings of Him whose sayings always 

 were and always will be true, and judging by the character of the 

 men you have sent to represent you on our Board, we cannot help 

 thinking that this community, and that Lawrence county must be 

 made up of ladies and gentlemen. And so we are glad to be here, 

 and we are glad to hear these cordial, earnest words of welcome, 

 2iid we appreciate them because we know they come from people 

 who are worthy of being recognized as friends. 



