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with the commission merchant and with the shipping agent and 

 all the various lines of work, not alone the cultivation of the soil, 

 but other lines as well, including the fertilizer man. 



Now I have no speech to make except simply to pay this little 

 tribute to Secretary Critchfield and also to speak of the interest that 

 Governor Brumbaugh is taking in our agricultural work, and to 

 say that the State College and Experiment Station, so far as its 

 agricultural interests are concerned, continue to stand in the hope 

 of being useful in all possible manner to the agricultural interests 

 of the State. 



The Smith-Lever Bill, as just passed, has vast possibilities. It 

 makes one tremble almost at times to think of what that administra- 

 tion will amount to in a few years, and if we can get that in the 

 right channel, it will be the most beneficial to the taxpayers of Penn- 

 sylvania, and that is the last desideratum, that is the thing we all 

 want to do, and with that and the present conditions altogether, 

 it seems to me that the future of the agricultural interests in his 

 State seems to be especially bright and promising and hopeful, if 

 only we can find a way to tlie market, if only the ambitions of cer- 

 tain foreign rules — if only this intangible thing they call the balance 

 of power, for which they are killing men and piling up an enormous 

 national debt — and what does it amount to in the end? You and 

 I believe that it is not worth the death of one soldier, the most igno- 

 rant, cheapest, meanest soldier that dies; it is not worth that, and 

 we shall be fortunate of course if we can keep our neutrality and 

 keep out of it, but we shall find our market hampered to a certain 

 extent, and I, for one, cannot believe that it is a wise thing to try 

 to starve out the enemy by bolting our own front door. We tried 

 that one time, in President Jefferson's administration, in order to 

 keep neutrality or try to avoid getting entangled in the Napoleonic 

 Wars, to avoid feeding the enemy of one nation and offending another 

 nation. We put an embargo on our vessels. Within one season 

 the crops were piled up in the warehouses; business had become 

 stagnant, and while trying to starve out the enemy, we were starving 

 ourselves. 



REPORT ON FEEDING STUFFS 



By G. G. HUTCHISON 



As your Specialist on feeding stuffs, I beg permission to make a 

 report to this body concerning the condition of the feeds sold in 

 Pennsylvania and the work done by the Department of Agriculture 

 during the year just closed. It is well known to you all that there 

 has been a marked advance in the price of the many feed products 

 throughout the country since early last fall. This condition has 



