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may be properly selected, the State will be doing along that line all 

 that it ought to do. 



I believe that this Board has only begun to occupy its held of use- 

 fulness. It now has an appropriation of its own, and people will 

 look to see the work of the Board enlarged and will be disappointed 

 if the State Board of Pennsylvania shall not be quoted all over the 

 United States as an example of progress in the aid of agriculture 

 in this great Commonwealth. No other State society has the oppor- 

 tunity that this State Board of Agriculture has. right here in Penn- 

 sylvania, and von can get all the money that von need if vou only 

 will ask for it. The Legislature is ready to help you if you show 

 yourselves useful. I know the men who b< long to this Board and 

 I know they are in earnest. I know thai they will properly spend 

 any funds that the State may give into their keeping. I believe we 

 ought to utilize these county organizations that we have, keep 

 them from being m< re fake concerns, and turn them into beneficial 

 organizations, so that they will be highly useful to the State instead 

 of being referred to with a sneer. 



Are you ready for this great work? Some of you are getting 

 old, some may be getting a little tired. If you are not ready, my 

 advice is to get out and let some young man come in. Let us have 

 progress. Do not let us stand still, but let us go on from one ad- 

 vancement to another. 



Thirty years since, you and I, Mr. Edge, met here with a few 

 others to organize the State Board of Agriculture. I believe we 

 are the only two living members who were present at the birthday 

 of this organization. The next thirty years ought to make great 

 changes in Pennsylvania agriculture, as the pasl thirty has in the 

 theories of this Board. 



Another thing I want to say while I am on my feet. There can- 

 not be anything done in agricultural advancement except through 

 education. You need to stand by your State College. I tell you 

 in every state the agricultural college is the rallying point of agri- 

 culture, and the more I go over our great country. Iowa, Wisconsin, 

 Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, the more I realize this fact, that we 

 must look to the Slate College for our inspiration and instruction. 

 I have just come from Nebraska, where five hundred school chil- 

 dren from all over the state had come up to their State Capital 

 to a great corn exhibit, of articles made from corn, cooked by school 

 children lit for the finest epicure in New York city. They are awake 

 out there. Now, what can we do in Pennsylvania to wake up our 

 agricultural people? If we take this matter of the improvement 

 of our live stock in hand with our great State treasury full of money 

 waiting to be properly expended, what may we not accomplish? 

 We have all the advantages that any men could desire. 



Dr. Schaeffer was called and spoke as follows: 



DR. SCHAEFFER: Mr. Chairman, the only thing that the people 

 of Pennsylvania have allowed me to think about in the last three 

 months is vaccination, and when farmer Hutchison brings over those 

 stallions from foreign countries, the first thing we will do will be to 

 have them vaccinated. T hope we will have a law passed so that we 

 will be obliged to vaccinate our trees against San Jose' Scale, and 



