166. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Do<5. 



MR. BLACK: Mr. Chairman, I think that the Pennsylvania Live 

 Stock Breeders' Association would be entirely satisfied to come in 

 on Thursday. I do not think it is their wish to limit the meetings 

 of the State Board of Agriculture at all. 



The SECRETARY: Mr. Chairman, I would state that they made 

 that request as stated by Brother Herr. It is very interesting to 

 the live stock breeders to attend the meetings of the State Board 

 of Agriculture, and possibly it might be of interest to some mem- 

 bers of the State Board to attend the meetings of the Live Stock 

 Breeders' Association. The Secretary will be satisfied with either 

 arrangement; I can't see that there is any material difference 

 •whether, we listen to an address or to several addresses delivered 

 under the auspices of the Live Stock Breeders' Association or 

 \vhether under the auspices of the State Board of Agriculture. We 

 are all interested in the same line, and that is why we are good 

 friends. The Breeders' Association look at it in this way. They 

 will have their lecturers there, and we will have ours, and both 

 organizations can have the same men in some instances, but it is 

 a matter of entire inditference to me as to whether we shall allow 

 them to begin their meetings on Wednesday or not. If we begin 

 on Tuesday, we shall have all day Tuesday and Tuesday night and 

 also two sessions on Wednesday; we will be able to have four or 

 five sessions; then the}' would like to come in on Wednesday even- 

 ing and continue through Thursday and that would give the Dairy 

 Union people an opportunity to get in with their work, so that those 

 who are there as members of the State Board would have an oppor- 

 tunity to attend their lectures right along the same line. I do not 

 know that we have had a better presentation of live stock breeding 

 than we had at our last meeting. 



I feel just a little bit like Brother Herr the State Board is a 



State institution and we can do as we please about this matter. 

 Perhaps we will be conceding a little too much to give them the 

 Wednesday evening meeting, but we must remember that the differ- 

 ent sessions are made up, as it were, for the benefit of the same 

 family, or for the same object. 



MR. HERR: Mr. Chairman, the holding of a meeting on Wed- 

 nesday evening would be a benefit to the Breeders' Association be- 

 cause they have no funds except their annual dues, while we have a 

 fund which is to be devoted to our work; Ave cannot appropriate 

 that to the Breeders' Association or any other, although while it' 

 would reall}' lessen their burden to have a meeting on Wednesday 

 evening, I do not know that it would increase our own. It is a little 

 diflflcult to get there for a Tuesday morning's session. Such an ar- 

 rangement would leave two days, Friday and Saturday, to go home 

 on, and only one day to come on, and it seems to me they can just 

 as easily extend the time. 



MR. ORR: Mr. Chairman, I am not a member of this Board, and 

 it has never been my privilege to attend a winter meeting of the 

 State Board of Agriculture, but I would like to say here to the State 

 Board of Agriculture that I think that instead of feeling that these 

 other organizations in the State of Pennsylvania are infringing in 

 any way upon their rights, privileges or prerogatives, it seems to 



