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Livestock Sanitary Board, and to Dr. Leonard Pearson and his 

 associates for their untiring efforts to stamp out this insidious 

 disease. It is further 



RESOLVED: That this Convention urge upon the Legislature 

 the passage of the act malcing an appropriation of $90,000 to the 

 Livestock Sanitary Board for the payment of expenses in the 

 eradication of the foot and mouth disease and for the control of 

 dangerous, contagious and infectious diseases in animals. 



We are unalterably opposed to the bonding of our State for 

 $50,000,000, or any amount, for the purpose of raising revenue to 

 build the proposed highway from Philadelphia t-o Pittsburg. 



If taxes were equalized, each class bearing its just share of the 

 burdens of the government, the taxes on real estate would be 

 greatly reduced, while the taxes on personal and corporate property 

 would be materially increased, thus furnishing sufficient revenue not 

 only to build, but maintain all the State roads, and still meet all the 

 necessary expenses of the Government. 



Give us State roads in fact as well as in name, the State to build 

 and maintain them, starting at some central point, and eventually 

 connecting the several counties of the State. 



We highly appreciate the efficient and intelligent work that is 

 now being done at State College, under the Presidency of Dr. Edwin 

 E. Sparks and his competent corps of instructors. 



Believing that the State cannot spend her money to better advan- 

 tage than that of educating her boys and girls for future citizenship, 

 we therefore most earnestly recommend that the Legislature make 

 such appropriations, from time to time, as shall place and keep 

 her in the front rank, as an experimental station and an educational 

 institution. 



RESOLVED: That we favor the passage by the Federal Govern- 

 ment of United States House Bill No. 21,318, known as the Insect- 

 icide and Fungicide Bill, providing that the contents of packages 

 of material sold and shipped for use as insecticides and fungicides 

 must be in accordance with the labels placed thereon, in regard to 

 quantity, composition and fitness. Be it further 



RESOLVED: That we request the Secretary and the Entom- 

 ologist of this Board to write to Senator Kittredge, Chairman of 

 the Committee in charge of this Bill, favoring its immediate passage. 



WHEREAS: The Quail, sometimes known as the "Bob- White" 

 is known to be a most valuable bird on the farm for its destruction 

 of weed seeds and insect pests, Therefore be it 



RESOLVED: That we request legislation providing for re-stock- 

 ing this State with Quail and protecting this bird by all possible 

 means for a period of at least five years. 



(Signed) 



^ E. B. DORSETT, 



JOHN C. WELLEB, 

 L A. ESCHBACH, 

 S. M. McHENRY, 

 H. C. SNAVELY. 



