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The SECRETARY : I may say to that committee that the Governor 

 is not in the city to-day. He is aware of the meeting but has duties 

 calling him away from the city. 



MR. HUTCHISON: Mr. Chairman, we have with us a State official 

 whom 1 know you would all be glad to have a word from, Major I. 

 B. Brown, Secretary of Internal Affairs, a member of our Board. 

 This is a little experience meeting and I know you will be glad to 

 hear from him. 



The CHAIRMAN: We certainly would be pleased to hear from 

 Major Brown. 



MAJOR BROWN: Mr. Chairman: The gentleman has said that 

 this is an experience meeting; I have just dropped in here simply to 

 get my name on the record as being present. It is the first time I 

 have been out of my house for the last ten days-. I have been laid up 

 with rheumatism, but I am glad to know that my friend from Hunt- 

 ingdon and others are giving their experiences. All of us have had 

 our experiences in all those things which make up human life, and 

 those who have had experience on the farm, have had experience in 

 the avocation which has made this world, its industries and devel- 

 opment very largely what they are. We may talk about our rail- 

 roads and the great service they have done in developing natural 

 and material interests, yet behind all this is the man on the farm 

 with the hoe and the shovel, with the plow and the reaper and the 

 mower, doing that work on which all others so very largely depend. 



In my political life I have never had an opportunity of mingling 

 very much with the agriculturists of the Commonwealth, my line of 

 public service being more with corporations, more with the varied 

 industries of the Commonwealth, the manufacturers and all the lines 

 of enterprises connected with corporate service, so that I have never 

 been able to touch elbows in the work and in the developments in 

 which you are so earnestly engaged; but when I think of my own 

 native State of Pennsylvania, and ride through it, as I have so fre- 

 quently in years past, and see the farmers working upon the high- 

 lands and in the valleys, certainly there is everything that meets 

 our eyes to convince us that the State of Pennsylvania cannot in any 

 way afford to be unmindful of the loyal services of our citizens who 

 are engaged in agricultural pursuits. 



Now I do not know — I hadn't the remotest idea of being called 

 upon to say anything here — I do not know what your program is, 

 and my remarks, of necessity, must have been rambling, but I do take 

 it as a great honor that you have conferred by permitting me to say 

 this much on this occasion. 



The CHAIRMAN: The committee to wait upon the Governor are 

 Messrs. Sexton, Chubbuck and Knuppenburg. 



COL. WOODWARD: Mr. Chairman, with your permission, I am 

 not going to relate my experience, but I would like to contribute a 

 little information to the members of the Board. 



I presume that every one of us realizes the importance of Penn- 

 sylvania as a dairy state. We stand second or third in the import- 

 ance and value of that industry. 



You know that our State College has for sometime been in the 

 throes of reorganization of its agricultural faculty, and you know, 



