No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 769 



PAPERS READ AT THE ANNUAL, MEETING OF 

 THE PENNSYLVANIA STOCK BREEDERS' AS- 

 SOCIATION, HELD AT THE MONONGAHELA 

 HOUSE, PITTSBURG, PA., JANUARY 18, 1906. 



OFFICERS FOR 1906. 



PRESIDENT. 

 W. C. NORTON, Aldenville. 



1ST. V. PRESIDENT. 

 DR. LEONARD PEARSON, Philadelphia. 



2D. V. PRESIDENT. 

 M. P. SHOEMAKER, Greensburg. 



SECRETARY. 

 E. S. BAYARD, East End, Pittsburg. 



TREASURER. 

 J. F. LANTZ, Glenmoore. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON STATE FAIR. 



By HON. W. C. NORTON, Chairman. 



I would say, last winter, in which I spent nearly the greater por- 

 tion of my time in Harrisburg, it seemed to be a new matter to the 

 representatives. They did not seem to understand. They had got the 

 thing mixed with the old State Agricultural Society, and it was hard 

 work to get it through their heads that we are not looking to the 

 interests of the old State Agicultural Society, that we had no use for 

 it, and that we wanted a new organization, and one that would be a 

 success, which we could not secure by taking up the old organization. 

 The old organization has got too much of a stench connected with it. 

 Now, in going through the House and Senate we found, Mr. Bayard 

 and myself, that the representatives as soon as they understood the 

 matter were willing to vote for a State Fair. We had the bill pre- 

 pared, as you all know, and while there was a very small amend- 

 ment and some suggestions made to amend it in the House and 

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