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As the Legislature is now iu session, we think that it would be 

 the proper time to strengthen or pass a new law that would cover 

 these objectional features. We would respectfully ask for your co- 

 operation and aid in carrying out the above suggestions. 



ADDRESS OF GENERAL BEAVER. 



Fellow-Farmers: There is nothing like having the best, and our 

 farmer from Clinton County is that, if he is anything. I just want 

 to thank my friend Hutchison for making his splendid argument on 

 the Feeding Stuffs Law, because he will have to make it later before 

 the Superior Court. His suggestions will be much more valuable 

 to the Judges than any arguments could be. 



The Chairman does not state the real object in introducing me, 

 and taking the time from the regular program, so I will do so; we 

 have with us to-day one of the Ex-officio Members of the Board, who 

 is meeting with us to-day for the first time. He has been in Pennsyl- 

 vania only a few months, but he has been busy making acquaint- 

 ances, and he says he will not be satisfied until he has made the 

 acquaintance of every county in the State. There are very few 

 men who have done this. This State is a great empire, and he will 

 have his hands full if he does that in a year, but Dr. Sparks, the 

 President of State College, whom I have the pleasure of introducing 

 to you, has the pleasure and privilege of meeting those of you who 

 are here to-day, and you will have the pleasure of hearing from 

 him a little later. The Chairman of the Meeting has asked me to 

 present Dr. Sparks to you, so that when he comes to your several 

 counties, you may know him, and I am sure that when he does 

 come, you will like him. Let me present to the audience Dr. Edwin 

 Earle Sparks. 



ADDRESS OF DR. SPARKS. 



I do not want to be behind my friend. General Beaver, so I will 

 say "Fellow-farmers." I own a farm iu Ohio — I think it has nine 

 acres — and if I live long enough I hope to be able to get the taxes 

 out of it. This may sound big to you, but if you kiiiew the part of 

 Ohio in which the farm is located, j-ou might have a little more 

 faiHi in me. 



When I came up to State College a few months ago, four hundred 

 of the boys came round to I*rof. Jackson's house, and made a gr.eat 

 demonstration. Prof. Jackson went out and asked them what they 

 wanted, and they said "we want to see what we have drawn!" They 

 were kind enough to refer to me as a i)rize. 



I had the pleasure of meeting some of you at the Grange Meeting 

 up in Tioga county, and hope I shall have the pleasure of seeing 

 many more of you at Pennsylvania State College. We have planned 

 to take care of a great many of you duiing our next Farmers' Week, 

 and we want more of your boys and girls up there. We have about 

 500 of them up there now, and want more of them. Right here I 

 want to say that I believe one of the ]>rincipal reasons that the boy 



