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Now then, my inquiry was, Do you gentlemen want something of 

 that kind in this State? I have been told that there are men grow- 

 ing corn in this State that are just as competent to show you cor- 

 rect methods and to make suggestions in regard to corn, as there 

 are in Indiana or in anv other state, and men who are interested in 

 fruit, and those interested in the varieties in fruit, can sit down 

 and study and talk over it for a week with a collection of men that 

 you can't find anywhere else. Those of you who are interested in 

 dairying, we will try to get together and we will exhibit the but- 

 ter, and will bring 'the livestock out for examination. Iowa took 

 three carloads of horses from Ohio for their farmers' week in order 

 that the farmers interested in horses might have animals of the 

 right kind to examine and judge. I do not hesitate to say, gentle- 

 men, that lots of you have never seen steers such as Prof. Shaw has 

 seen at the international livestock show. 



If you will come up and see what we have there, I am sure it will 

 be profitable to you. I believe that we have some animals there 

 that we need not be ashamed of, even if we have not got any of 

 the prize Shorthorn animals. ' Minnesota last year had the grand 

 champion of all; Indiana had the next, and Iowa got it this year. 

 That shows that in the colleges there are men who can feed, who 

 understand the principles of feeding, and I believe we can get some 

 of those men to come and tell us how it is done, and the question is, 

 Do you want them? If so, Prof. Frear and Col. Woodward will get 

 together and we will all help all we can. 



The CHAIRMAN: Is it the idea that we are now to consult our 

 people and then determine this matter? 



PROF. VAN NORMAN: Yes, or if you want to make some ex- 

 pressions of approval or disapproval, that will put you on record 

 here. 



The CHAIRMAN: You do not contemplate the Board taking any 

 action at this time? 



PROF. VAN NORMAN: That is up to the Board to do what they 

 wish to do. You have the suggestion before you now. 



COL. WOODWARD: This invitation is extended to the farmers 

 of Pennsylvania, it will be understood, irrespective of whether 

 they are members of the Board or not. It is simply intended, I 

 judge, to send the invitation out to the farmers by their represen- 

 tatives here in this Board and that this meeting shall be a meet- 

 ing of the actual farmers of Pennsylvania of all grades and classes 

 and t-he expression sought by Prof. Van Norman, if you will allow 

 me to interpret him, is the disposition of the farmers to have such 

 a meeting at the college at some part of the year, at a time to be 

 hereafter decided upon. There is nothing to be decided here to- 

 day, excepting that that would be a good thing for all the farmers 

 of Pennsylvania who can be gotten there. 



MR. McCRACKEN: In order to bring this matter before the 

 house, I will move that it is the sense of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture, that the invitation to the farmers of Pennsylvania to spend 

 a week at the State College of Pennsylvania, be accepted. 



The motion was seconded by several members, 

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