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that we could not use them for maintenance. We need an appro- 

 priation which shall not be specific, but for general maintenance, 

 and large enough to meet the need, and then we will bring up this 

 agricultural end, and place it where it should be. 



Then we want to elect a Governor who will not cut the appropria- 

 tion in two and give us only the half of it. Only give us the ma- 

 terial that Ave need to work with and you can depend upon it that we 

 will do the very best we can for the agricultural community. 



MK. KAHLEE: Mr. Chairman, I know that it is customary in 

 nearly all associations to present resolutions. They are presented 

 and adopted and that is about the last of them. I think the time 

 has arrived when if we express our sentiments through a resolu- 

 tion, it should mean something. We generally embody in that reso- 

 lution what our wishes are. I think you w ill all agree with me that 

 nothing can be effected in the legislative line in the interest of the 

 State College or in the interest of reform in any way, unless you 

 create a sentiment for it. Now how can we do that? I think it is 

 up to us, as has already been said, and that the time has arrived 

 in agricultural education and in many ways that we make manifest 

 our wishes and desires and give the State to understand that we 

 mean it. 



Now in this association, with representative men from nearly every 

 county in this Commonwealth, let us not just merely direct the adop- 

 tion of this resolution, but let us create a sentiment at home, and I 

 tell you that the politicians can't Avithstand the sentiment behind it. 

 There has been nothing said or done here on a partisan line; we have 

 had a confounded sight more partyism than Ave have had of whole- 

 some laAvs. I am for the man who will stand for us, I don't care 

 what party he represents. I Avant to knoAV what he is. 



MR. BRODHEAD: Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask how many 

 men in this audience OAvn horses. Hands up. (Many hands were 

 lifted.) I wanted to get this vote for information. I am traveling 

 over this State and some others and I have found that the horse- 

 shoeing interest is retrograding. The horseshoer used to be a power 

 in his neighborhood. There is another thing I want to know. I 

 want to knoAV hoAv many men here know of men learning the horse- 

 shoeing trade under twenty-one years of age. (Three or four hands 

 were raised.) 



I was in fifty-four shops in the State of New Jersey a year ago 

 last winter and found only three solitary men learning the trade. 

 I havn't found a man in two years trying to learn the horse-shoeing 

 trade. Our business has been brought doAvn and our fellow-crafts- 

 men have lost their interest and only learn by what they pick up 

 here and there. There is not a place in the State of Pennsyh^ania 

 Avhere a man can go and get any anatomical knowledge to fit him for 

 the business of horseshoeing Av^hatever. We have to pick up just 

 Avhat we can. I have tried to get State College to take this up and 

 give our young men an opportunity to get an anatomical know- 

 ledge of the horse's foot and leg. 



I hope that this resolution, when it goes before the legislative 

 committee — I hope they will do something to better our condition 

 and better your condition. The day is not far distant when men 



