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Department of Agriculture and carrying other features, with some 

 hope of success. For the people of the State are hungry for re- 

 liable poultry information and reliable poultry service and having 

 had a taste of it as provided by the Bureau of Farm Advisers and 

 by the poultry associations, they want to have and will have more 

 of it, and deserve to have it. Prices for poultry and eggs this last 

 year have been good average for the year: Eggs, 31c per dozen; live 

 poultry, 13c a lb.; dressed ijoultry, 18c per lb. 



ADDIIESS— DR. SPARKS 



It is awfully good of you, Mr. Hutchison, and men and women 

 of the Board. This meeting comes at an unfortunate time for me in 

 some particulars, because it is held simultaneously with the meeting 

 of the State College Trustees and they have long sessions, especially 

 this year when we are looking forward toward the legislative ap- 

 propriations. The Governor presided yesterday afternoon and you 

 people will be interested, I think, knowing that in his opening ad- 

 dress the burden of his remarks was how the College can be of 

 more service to tlie farm producer in garnering his crop and in 

 getting it to the market, and 1 think we are all to be congratulated 

 on having' a man who, himself, tliougli in recent years a city man, 

 nevertheless has not forgotten his early life in the country and who 

 is making such an effort to study tlie rural ])roblem and the prob- 

 lem of tlie rural resident in order to improve matters generally. 



I think we all feel a little bit sad in this meeting to think that 

 the Secretary who has presided — not presided, but acted as Secre- 

 tary for so many years, is approaching what seems, from his side 

 at least, to l)e the last meeting that he will be with us in his official 

 capacity. It has been my great pleasure to have him on the Board 

 of Tru.stees of the Pennsylvania State College in the six years I 

 have been connected with the School, and I should be false to every 

 dictate of fairness and judgment if I did not say that, nothwith- 

 standing the busy official life that he leads in the Department, he 

 nevertheless, has found time to attend nearly every meeting of the 

 Board of Trustees of the College, and those of you who have been 

 to State College know that it is not an easy matter to reach there. 

 We have a Penitentiary six miles away which I believe is more ac- 

 cessible than the State College. The journey up there and back con-. 

 sumes some little time, and yet the Secretary has always found time 

 to be there and give us the benefit of his judgment in matters per- 

 taining to the School of Agriculture and to the Agriculture Ex- 

 periment Station, and, in fact, to the entire college, because he is 

 such a broad minded man that he realizes the fact that the student 

 of agriculture ought to come in contact with the student of other 

 lines of work so as to give him a broad view and make him a man 

 of the world; because on the farm he has had to come in contact 



