No. 6. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 151 



What action it will be found best to take, 1 am not in a position 

 to say; the matter so far has not been determined. The College will 

 not relax in any way its efforts for the advancement of agriculture, 

 and it will not rest satisfied until they see that agricultural building 

 completed according to the plans which were virtually authorized 

 two years ago. 



We shall simply go ahead with the work in the completion of 

 the agricultural building, and with the funds we have shall probably 

 be able to complete about half of it, and we shall simply use that 

 half as best we can, making no reduction in the size or quality of 

 the building, simply going as far as we can and stopping, depending 

 upon the legislature, through the influence of the farmers in the 

 State, to provide the means for completing it and fully equipping it 

 two years from now. In the meantime we have a somewhat in- 

 creased maintenance fund which we hope to be able to use for the 

 advantage and benefit of the agricultural interests of the State. 

 It is too early yet to say just what we shall do with if, but it will 

 certainly have a very careful consideration by the Board of Trustees 

 and those most interested in carrying out the policies of the College, 

 and we shall try to serve you to the best of our ability with the 

 funds thus placed in our hands. 



DEPUTY SECRETARY MARTIN: Mr. Chairman, and Members, 

 of the Board: We are pleased to announce that through the gen 

 erosity of Mr. Kates, the owner of a farm over which our good 

 friend Mr. Detrich is placed in charge, we are invited to visit their 

 farm to-morrow 7 at twelve o'clock. Conveyances w 7 ill moot us here 

 at the Hall by arrangement to carry all the delegates and members 

 out to this farm, where a lunch will be prepared for us, and in the 

 barn, if the weather should be unfavorable outside, we will hold the 

 afternoon session of our normal meeting. 



This is a very generous offer and affords a fine opportunity for 

 the members and delegates not only to visit this farm, but to view 

 the beauties of old Chester county in that portion of it. 



I feel quite certain that every visitor will be pleased to have 

 this opportunity to see something of the remodelling and re- 

 vising of what we are sometimes pleased to call a farm that has 

 hitherto been neglected, and to see something of the contrast as 

 between this neglected place and the methods of modern cultivation 

 and improvement. It is our opportunity. As we go to this farm, 

 let it be with the object in view to learn something for ourselves, 

 and to gather suggestions from the very worthy ownership and man- 

 agement of this farm. I cast my eye about but fail to see Mr. Kates 

 in the audience, but I see Mr. Detrich here. 



I hope that every member will get acquainted with Mr. Kates, and 



