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speaks well for the future of aij;rieultuie that T'ennsylvania i.s able 

 to have a body of men like this, and as 1 have niiii^led with you 

 remembering the many kindnesses and courtesies that you have shown 

 me I extend a special welcome to western Crawford count}'. I know 

 there are times when this Institute woi k does not move alf)ni; as 

 smoothly as it might and the county chairman gets a whole lot of 

 blame too, but it is the mau that does the best that gets more 

 kicks than all the rest and after all a man that does something 

 is always going to get some kicks, if there is au}^ consolation in 

 that, you have it. 



So with these remarks — and there are other things that T might 

 have said — but do not forget that we extend to you a most heart}'- 

 welcome here at this time and want to take part in this meeting 

 and want to go out from this meeting the very best results that have 

 ever gone out from a meeting of this kind and as far as we are 

 able at least to contribute in that direction, we are going to do it. 

 Many of the mistakes we make — and we will make them and always 

 have made them and you are going to make them — they are mistakes 

 not of the heart at least, and just consider them in that light, and 

 so we extend to each and every one of you both lecturers and county 

 chairmen and all of you a most hearty and most cordial welcome. 



RESPONSE TO ADDRESSES OF WELCOME 



By HON. A. L. MARTIN, Director of Institutes 



Mr. Chairman and gentlemen who have so generously of- 

 fered us everything that is in and around Conneaut Lake 

 and extended us a hearty and generous welcome; I may say 

 that in traveling over Pennsj'lvania for the past 16 years I have 

 sometimes been led to think, at least, that if there was a possibility 

 of partiality not on the part of the Lord in the blessings that he 

 bestows upon his people, it was first that we were given a home in 

 a state like Pennsjdvania ; and then again after looking more closely 

 into the various conditions, educational, social and along broad agri- 

 cultural lines, I have been led to know that in every single county 

 of the State there seems to be some special benefit bestowed not 

 quite common to the other counties. And now as we come into 

 Crawford county, I have been led to believe, not only to-day but upon 

 other occasions, that if that partiality were at all possible that 

 Crawford county was blessed at least in some things beyond most 

 of the counties of the State of Pennsylvania. 



What are some of these things? First, Crawford county has the 

 advantage which some other counties do not have, of access to a 

 higher education by your educational institutions; it has access to 

 as good, if not the' best, common schools within the State, and you 

 have a soil, or rather I should say, you have farm homes unexcelled, 



