No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. l?d 



most fertilizers of any person in the State, and one of our good old 

 grangers, Brother M. S. Vaughn. We shall be glad to hear from 

 him. 



MK. VAUGHN: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen of the City 

 and County of Clearfield: In behalf of the officers and members of 

 this organization, I wish to thank you for this cordial welcome, 

 this fraternal greeting that has just been extended to us by an 

 honorable representative of your city and county; and let me say, 

 my friends, that it affords me great gratification to be able to tell 

 you that he is a product of the soil of my native county. He is one 

 of my boys. We grew up together, I was a little ahead of him; we 

 toiled and labored in the fields side by side. W^e have eaten at the 

 same table, partaken of the same nourishment, and we have huntea 

 rattle-snakes and picked huckleberries side by side, and that was 

 before the discovery of the antidote of the rattle-snake bite, and 

 we were not provided with it. 



I feel proud that I can stand here and realize the predictions that 

 were made years ago, the predictions in regard to this honorable 

 gentleman have been borne out and confirmed. I always predicted 

 that for him, because from a boy to a man, you never found him 

 engaged in anything, countenancing or recognizing anything that 

 did not lead to the highest standard of manhood. 



Now I am only here to emphasize a few of the remarks that have 

 already been made. I wish to emphasize a few of the reflections 

 that your worthy Secretary made in reference to this class of people. 

 I want to say to you people of Clearfield that it will not be neces- 

 sary for you to increase the number of your peace officers or enlarge 

 your present accommodations in your county jail on our account. 

 We can vouch for every man among us with one exception, and if 

 the supply of vegetable matter and cow-horn turnips holds out, 

 perhaps even he will not be an exception. 



I want to thank you for this privilege of addressing you. I do 

 not intend to consume much of your time, but I want again to ex- 

 tend to you the thanks of this convention, and all the members 

 of this convention for this cordial greeting and this kind welcome, 

 so ably given to us at this meeting. 



(Cries for "Bob" Seeds.) 



MR. SEEDS: Mr. Chairman, County Chairmen, Institute Workers, 

 and Ladies and Gentlemen: I want to say to you that I am delighted 

 to meet you people, and I want to take this occasion to thank the 

 county chairmen for the nice way they have treated rae in going over 

 the State of Pennsylvania. I also v/ant to thank the Institute 

 workers for helping me to make the institutes a success. As long 

 as I am interested in agriculture, I want to be with you. I am glad 

 to meet you. Since I was a little bit of a boy at my grandfather's 

 knee, I have heard of Clearfield county, and ray first impression of 

 Clearfield county was such that I believed that if a whippoorwill 

 would come here, he would have found the conditions such that he 

 couldn't stay over night. I sat at my grandfather's knee when I 

 heard them talk about a farm that he owned in Clearfield county. 

 I heard him tell his boy that he was going to sell it, because he said 

 that the trees were so large it would cost more to take them off the 

 land than the farm was worth; that farm was worth more than — 



