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believe we can make a week there worth your while, and if you say 

 you want it, we will do what we eau to help bring it about. Now 

 1 put it up to you. Do you want it? 



DR. FREAR: Mr. Chairman, I am very happy indeed to second 

 the suggestion of Prof. Van Norman. I have recently come from a 

 brief visit to Kentucky. I had a very pleasant day with my friend 

 the Director of the Experiment Station in that State. He was full 

 of the alfalfa and corn trains which are being sent over that State 

 for the instruction of farmers. I asked him how the work was con- 

 ducted. He said the train ran into a place and the people gathered 

 and they stayed there for an hour or two, and then it ran on to an- 

 other place. I had a talk a short time ago with Prof. Peterson 

 and he told me of some of the experiences in that State, but he said, 

 the trouble is, the time is too brief. 



Now can't we help you? Do you wish to be helped to a practical 

 presentation of what has been done and can be done by the men 

 who have succeeded in carrying out some of the latest develop- 

 ments in these special branches of agriculture that are promising 

 good results in Pennsylvania. If so, we shall be glad to do what 

 w 7 e can to organize a week for you that will be profitable, inspir- 

 ing and not only a help to you, but to many others. 



COL. WOODWARD: Mr. Chairman, as a member of the Board of 

 Trustees of the Pennsylvania State College, I wish to assure all 

 my fellow -members of the Board, as the representatives of the facul- 

 ties have already assured you, that the Board of Trustees will do 

 everything in their power to make it a comfortable and profitable 

 week for the farmers of Pennsylvania as soon as the necessary ar- 

 rangements can be made. 



MR. WELD: Mr. Chairman, just a few days ago I had a letter 

 from a gentleman who is the director at the station in the territory 

 of Oklahoma. He told me that they just got through with a farmers' 

 gathering at Stillwater, Oklahoma, which had been very success- 

 ful. I think if the territory of Oklahoma can do these things, the 

 old Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ought to heartily second the 

 suggestion that has been made by the experts of the faculty of the 

 Pennsylvania State College. 



The SECRETARY: I would like it if Prof. Van Norman would 

 repeat his remarks or would state specifically what is contemplated 

 to be done. 



PROF. VAN NORMAN: Possibly I can best answer that by tell- 

 ing you what Indiana has done, to which Prof. Shaw referred when 

 he stated that 1,100 farmers were over there at the College where 

 they held a week's session for the farmers, and they came up there, 

 and then they gave that time up to just such instruction as Prof. 

 Shaw has given us, here, straight through the week; then the same 

 with corn as the topic. Then they supplemented that by using a 

 portion of the time in the practical demonstration of what had been 

 accomplished along certain definite lines, such as dairying and so 

 on, where the steers or the dairy cattle are brought right in. Then 

 in another place they had arranged there long tables, and each 

 farmer is expected to become a student, and take a seat for in.- 

 stance to study the question of seed corn. 



