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he lias always been a farmer, lendiiij;- liis best efforts to tlie State 

 Board of Agriculture. Two years ago I found it neeessar^^ to make 

 a lawyer of liim, and in the interests of agriculture, I have given 

 him a license to practice in the ofiices of Justices of the Peace, 

 and the Courts of Pennsylvania. You all know how lawyers can 

 talk; why, I am told that a great many of them live by talking; I 

 have never been one; at least, I have never been charged with it. 

 Why, they can talk upon all questions, and upon all sides of the 

 question at once. So I am going to call on this lawyer whom I 

 have made myself — and therefore 1 know he is all right — to talk 

 to us a little. I am going to call on Mr. Hutchison. 



ADDRESS. 



By Geo. G. Hutchison, Warriors' Mark, Pa. 



Mr. President, Hon. W. C. Porter, Judge of the Courts of Law- 

 rence County, Ladies and Gentlemen: I never disobey orders when 

 I am commanded by a superior officer to ])erform a duty, but to- 

 night I feel that I am not competent of filling the i)lace of our 

 honored Secretary, but, with your indulgence, I will endeavor to 

 say a few words in response to the eloquent and hearty address 

 of welcome that we have received from this distinguished son and 

 citizen of the county of Lawrence. 



Pennsylvania is divided into two distinct parts by a range of 

 mountains known as the Alleghenies. For a number of years this 

 organization has been meeting east of this range of mountains, but 

 on the invitation of our fellow member of the Board, and Institute 

 worker, Hon. Samuel McCreary, of this county, we almost unanim- 

 'ously accepted your invitation to hold our annual meeting in this 

 city; feeling that we would, by doing so, pay a visit to a section of 

 Pennsylvania, that those living in the east and central part of the 

 state knew^ very little about, especially in regard to n^ri'lciilturo. 

 and by visiting your beautiful city we would get new ideas and 

 understand better your ways of following this noble calling. It has 

 been my privilege to visit your city on a number of occasions, and 

 to see the thrift and enterprise that is here manifested. You have 

 here some of the best manufacturing interests in Pennsylvania, 

 located outside of the great city of Pittsburg. The ])roducts from 

 these plants go to all sections of the world; this has made you a 

 great manufacturing center. It was a pleasure to the members of 

 the Board to behold the pall of smoke; they said "times are good 

 here;" that is evident. We object to the smoke sometimes, but 

 these last six months people would have been only too jiind to lio 

 a little more washing. But the audience that is present this even- 

 ing will look more at your broad acres and your beautiful buildings 



