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ing here will be pleasant and will be profitable to all, and we wel- 

 come you to Conueaut Lake and Exposition Park, to our magnificent 

 hotels, and trust that you will go away pleased that you came. 



ADDKESS OF WELCOME 



By J. T. CAMPBELL, Hartstown, Pa. 



Yes, I did want to say a word of welcome to 3'ou 

 people and my friends, I am sure, and I have no speech — 1 did 

 think a while ago 1 might get up a little speech for this occasion 

 but 1 thought 1 might spill over, so 1 haven't any speech at all. 

 1 did make out a few notes as I was sitting here listening to the 

 others on this welcome. 



In the first place 1 want to say that I welcome you here, first 

 and foremost, for the manhood and womanhood that your represent. 

 I have reason to believe, I believe I can safely say that I have a 

 personal acquaintance with every one of you, and I know whereof 

 I speak in that respect and because of the sterling qualities of man- 

 hood and womanhood that your represent, I welcome you to Craw- 

 ford county as a farmer; we need you, we need men like you, we 

 need your influence here as well as the things that you have that 

 contribute to better farming because it is not all of the subject of 

 farms to go out and be a better farmer and till the laud a little 

 better than it has been tilled before; far from it, and we know 

 that the great work of the Farmers' Institutes in Pennsylvania has 

 not stopped there. And let me say to-day, while Ave are in a sec- 

 tion of I'ennsylvania that is more newly settled, not quite as old a 

 country as the part of the State on the other side of the mountains 

 from which many of you come, I want to assure you that the In- 

 dians at the present time in this section are all peaceable, as far 

 as that goes, you need have no alarm in that direction. 



I do want to say that we have a good country here, not as well 

 developed as it might well be in the future, without any doubt. I 

 have traveled about a little, studying agricultural conditions and 

 have been in almost every county of the State and in almost every 

 county of two or three other states and I can safely say that I think 

 we have a land here with great possibilities, much of which has not 

 been fully developed. Not a great while ago I spent a week in 

 northern Illinois and visited many farms, and the farmers told 

 me their land there would bring |200 to |300 and acre readily. 

 Our land is not bringing these prices; we have fairly good land, 

 not so well improved perhaps, but it can be bought at 150 to $60 

 an acre and you can spend |50 an acre more on it in the way of 

 drainage and improvements and have land at a cost of flOO an acre 

 that T feel perfectly safe in saying will yield more net profit to 

 the acre after the expenses are taken out than the $300 an acre 



