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3. Resolved, That we appreciate and deplore the difficulties that 

 lack of funds brings to the Board of Trustees of our State College, 

 and we pledge ourselves, and earnestly urge all agricultural organi- 

 zations and all individuals who are interested in agriculture in our 

 State, to use all honorable means to secure adequate appropriations 

 to enable the Board of Trustees to bring the agricultural branch of 

 our college up to as high a state of efficiency as is now enjoyed by 

 the Mechanic Arts branch. 



4. Eesolved, That it is the desire of the members of the State 

 Board of Agriculture and the institute lecturers of the State of Penn- 

 sylvania, and that we recommend that the Legislative Committee 

 ask for an appropriation to be used by the Department of Agri- 

 culture to pay the services and expenses of competent persons to 

 instruct the shoeing smiths of this Commonwealth in their vocation 

 thereby preventing the many serious diseases commonly brought 

 about by the lack of knowledge on the part of the shoeing smith, 

 which would be a great benefit not only to the shoeing smith, but 

 to the horse owners and the farmers throughout this State. 



5. Resolved, That we suggest that the State Breeders' Association 

 and the State Dairy Union hold their meeting at Hari*lsburg during 

 the same week that the State Board of Agriculture meets in order 

 to save time and expenses of those who wish to attend any or all of 

 the meetings, 



6. Resolved, That the township laws relating to roads, etc., should 

 be codified and published in such form as the school laws now 

 are. 



7. Resolved, That we demand such legislation as will make electric 

 railroads common carriers, and that they be given the right of emi- 

 nent domain the same as the steam railroads. 



8. Resolved, That we insist on liberal legislation and appropria- 

 tion looking to the completing of a system of macadamized highways 

 in this State. 



9. Resolved, That we heartily endorse the great public movements 

 now in operation in the exposure of graft, in all its devious forms, 

 and that we pledge ourselves to sustain this effort until graft shall 

 be banished from government, corporate and public institutions. 



10. Resolved, That we favor the passage of an Act providing for 

 voting upon questions of public policy for an expression of opinion, 

 if ten per cent, of the voters for Governor at the last previous elec- 

 tion shall so petition. 



11. Whereas, In view of the fact that from numerous sources all 

 over the State have come demands that the agricultural interests 

 at this time of uncertainty, make the same requests as do other or- 

 ganizations for recognition in governmental office, and in view of 

 the further fact that not since the adoption of the present consti- 

 tution has a representative of the agricultural and business inter- 

 ests occupied the gubernatorial chair, and further recalling the suc- 

 cessful and untarnished record for six years as a member of the 

 Legislature, when, as Chairman of the Agricultural Committee he 

 rendered most efficient services, and further remembering his career 

 of seven years as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, where with un- 

 tiring energy he has so organized and administered the farmers' 

 institute system of Pennsylvania as to make it second to none in this 

 country, ancj believing that he would draw to his support the agri- 



