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and you will be out of business. But, you say, if we put a good 

 article on the market some one will put it out of the market. That 

 has been the ease for the last fifty years, but I believe that from 

 now on is going to be the opportunity to raise the finer articles — a 

 greater opportunity than ever before. I believe there is going to 

 be a discriminating public, who will be willing to pay a good price 

 for it if they are sure of getting the genuine article. I believe that 

 instead of a few large packing houses — I have nothing to say against 

 them, for they are all right in their places — but I believe that instead 

 of a few large packing houses, there will be scattered throughout 

 Pennsylvania small abattoirs, perhaps co-partnershij> abat- 

 toirs, the same as co-partnership creameries, and they 

 will say ''You can get genuine sausage there, and can get 

 it fresh every day and inspected" just the same as the creameries. 

 There will be some disadvantages, but there will also be some 

 advantages, and the bones and fertilizers instead of being shipped 

 from Chicago will be right here, and I believe from now on is the 

 day of the Pennsylvania farmer, you will produce more and more of 

 the meat products; there will be less and less competition from the 

 West, and instead of being confined to a local market there is going 

 to be a demand for your products, and you are going to lead in pro- 

 ducing a good article. I am not interes-ted in cattle; you know I 

 am looked upon as an Agronomist; I am interested in raising crops, 

 but there is an old Flemish proverb that says "No grass, no cattle; 

 no cattle, no manure; no manure, no crops." and this I think you 

 will find holds true, and since they are all interwoven, I hope the 

 Pennsylvania farmer will take hold of his opportunity, and turn his 

 attention to the raising of cattle for the market that is sure to come 

 for him — is coming now. 



PRESIDENT NORTON: This paper is now open for discussion. 



MR. WING : Mr. Chairman, it does not seem to me that we should 

 allow that splendid address to go without a little discussion, espe- 

 cially as it is the most vital one that has been touched upon at this 

 meeting. The question is. Are you up against it? The time has 

 come for the farmer in Pennsylvania and Ohio to wake up to their 

 opportunities. For some years farming had rather fallen into dis- 

 repute in our Eastern states; there was too little in it. In Ohio I 

 have seen corn sell at 16 cents per bushel — a case of 16 to 1. But 

 there is a better day at hand. These conditions in the West of 

 which Prof. Hunt speaks — ^the disappearance of the grass out there 

 — are all true, and more true than he has told you. 



I spent a month in Colorado recently, and looked over conditions 

 there. They saw something must be done there, and how to do them 

 well. They work harder than lower, and I saw the farm fences 

 going down, you do here, but they have the faith to overcome the 

 necessary obstacles, and will find a way. They have sent the price 

 of land up in the San Luis Valley to |175 to |!200 an acre; it is worth 

 that now at Fort Collins. They have faith, these people. I said 

 to them, "•But look at the distance from the market." They said, 

 ''That is easily overcome with transportation facilities." And they 

 said, "We can raise four or five tons 'of alfafa to the acre and get 

 three crops." I said, "I can do that in Ohio. What do vou get for 

 it?" They said |5; I said, "I get fl2 in Ohio." I said, ''I can raise 



