No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 477 



"BE IT KESOLVP]!), TJiat we, the members of the State Board 

 of Agriculture of Pennsylvania, in annual session assembled, do 

 hereby express our appreciation and thanks to the Hon. N. B. 

 Critchfield, Secretary of Agriculture, and to the Hon A. L. Martin, 

 Deputy Secretary, and Director of Farmers' Institutes, for the able 

 and excellent program prepared for this meeting and wisdom shown 

 by the arranging for this joint meeting of the several organizations 

 here assembled; and that we hereby express our sincere thanks for 

 their untiring efforts in the furtherance of the agricultural interests 

 of this great Commonwealth. 



'^Hoping that we may be able to share with them the benefits 

 and pleasures of many more such meetings as their assistants and 

 co-workers, this resolution is respectfully submitted." 



MR. HERR. I move tliat we pass that by unanimous vote. 



Seconded and agreed to, and resolution passed by unanimous vote 

 of the members present. 



MR. HERR: Before we proceed further with the program, I 

 have here the resignation of Col. Deraming as Consulting Mineralo- 

 gist. What shall be done wnth it? 



Hearing no objection, the same will be accepted, and recorded 

 with the minutes of the Board. 



The following address by Mr. Van Alstyne, was read at the joint 

 meeting, held on Wednesday evening, and while it will be published 

 in the proceedings of the Pennsylvania Live Stock Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation, it is also included in this report by permission of the Secre- 

 tary of the above named Association. The address is as follows: 



RATIONAL FEEDING. 



By Mb. Edward Van Alstyne, Denmark. N. T. 



Mr. Chairman and Friends: If anybody wants to go out, I will 

 liot be offended, because I think it is a shame to inflict another 

 speech on this audience when it is nearly ten o'clock, but the Chair- 

 man has insisted on my speaking, so I shall have to do so. 



J want to lay down three general propositions on the subject of 

 feeding, and a great deal of what I say will be along the foundation 

 which Mr. Fuller laid down this afternoon. Some of you gentlemen 

 have probably found out for yourselves much of what I am going to 

 tell you, but it is those who have not progressed along the line of 

 feeding as they perhaps should have done, that I want to help. If 

 I can, and the others of you will have to bear with me. 



Our general purpose in feeding animals is to keep them in good 

 condition. I want to make that emphatic, because from some things 

 I expect to say you may infer that I would underfeed. I want, 

 therefore, to say first of all, that we must keep the animal in good 

 condition. Bhe must be kept so for herself, and for our good. 



