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iu all sections of the country over which they traveled, remarkably 

 good schoolhouses. His friend said to him: "I notice your barns 

 are of moderate size, and that your houses are not extravagant in 

 their architecture, but I admire your schoolhouses; they furnish a 

 contrast to your barns." Mr. Phillips turned to him and said: "We 

 raise men; we pay more attention to raising men than to raising 

 cattle." And so while you have raised your Shorthorn cattle and 

 your Guernseys, and your Conestoga horses, for I can remember 

 when they were brought from Chester county up into the western 

 part of the State, you have also been raising men, and we are 

 standing here to-day where men such as Anthony Wayne, whose 

 name adorns some of the brightest pages of our country's history, 

 was born and reared. Only a few miles south of us is the home of 

 Bayard Taylor, a statesman and a traveler and a journalist and an 

 author, a man whose name will live while the Fnglish language is 

 spoken or written in any land; and there are many others. I might 

 name among them the Kents and Swaynes and the Cooks, and 

 others who have added very materially to the literature of this 

 Commonwealth, and of this country, and so we are glad, citizens of 

 Chester county, to be here as your guests, and to express our appre- 

 ciation of the welcome that has been so eloquently and forcibly 

 expressed in the speech to which we have listened. 



The CHAIR: Before proceeding with the program, I think Mr. 

 Martin would like to make some announcements. 



MR. MARTIN: As this is the opening session of our Farmers' 

 Normal Institute, it would be but proper that at this session there 

 should be appointed a committee on questions. As you are w T ell 

 aware, if this meeting is to be profitable to us, the interesting part — 

 one of the most interesting for ourselves — will be the questions and 

 the answers that may be developed upon the subject-matter of the 

 topics discussed at the various sessions of this meeting, hence I take 

 the liberty to appoint Mr. Norris G. Temple and Mr. George F. 

 Barnes as an institute committee to distribute the blanks and gather 

 up the questions, and we request that, the persons who have ques- 

 tions they w r ish answered, will write them on these blanks, sign 

 their names and address, so that we may know by whom they are 

 presented. We make this request in order that when the proceed- 

 ings are published, the name and address of th~e person handing in 

 a question may also be published with the proceedings and with the 

 answers. 



I might state at this time, that to-morrow at twelve o'clock, through 

 the generosity of Mr. Kates, the proprietor of the "Harvest Home 

 Farm" some eight miles distant, we are all invited to be his guests, 

 and transportation will be provided in front of the Hall to-morrow 



