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The adoption of the resolution having been moved and seconded, it 

 was agreed to. 



DEPUTY SECRETARY MARTIN: 1 want to state that this even 

 ing's session will be presided over by Dr. M. E. Conard and there will 

 be an address of welcome by Burgess Charles H. Pennypacker, and if 

 the Governor is present, he will respond to that address. There will 

 also be an address by Dr. J. T. Rothrock and by Dr. J. IT. Funk. 



MR. HERR: Mr. Chairman, the talking this afternoon has been 

 along lines which interested me very much. In looking around it 

 makes me feel older than I ever felt before to find so few members of 

 the Board of Agriculture who have been working with me for many 

 years on this Board; but it affords me a great deal of pleasure when 

 I turn around and meet my Brother Downing here. He was an effec- 

 tive and efficient working member of the Board, contributing so much 

 to the literature of the Board and whose history will be found 

 recorded in its minutes and in its annual reports. I have also had 

 the pleasure of meeting quite a number of others who have been with 

 us quite a long time on the Board. I was glad to hear from Dr. 

 Rothrock and the citizens of Chester county; and I want to say that 

 the State will never be able to repay the services of some of the 

 citizens of this county, and especially of the services of Dr. Rothrock 

 and Brother Downing and Brother Carter. These are three men 

 whom the State will never be able to pay for the actual services 

 they have rendered in the work of your Board and in the work of the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



I am very glad indeed that we have to-day the pleasure of meeting 

 in their county, and I am pleased that the Governor has seen fit to 

 recognize the Board in approving the act of the Legislature pro- 

 viding money to pay its expenses. I hope the Board will be filled 

 up, and those who are here will not only be as efficient, but will be 

 as earnest and as sincere as the members of the Board have been 

 for the last twenty-five years. 



On motion, the Board adjourned. 



N. R. CRTTCHFTELD. 



Secretary. 



