No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. ^1 



I am sorry Secretary Tyson was not here this afternoon to hear 

 the apple session. I noticed a good many "bald'uns" in the audience. 



One thing about the apple session that impressed me was, what 

 we should not do so much here in the East. You noticed that Pro- 

 fessor Stewart threw an apple picture on the screen, and I noticed 

 how most of you were impressed with its beauty. 1 saw this same 

 orchard out in Lawrence county, and this picture does not begin to 

 show its full beauty; but instead of looking at the beauty of it, we go 

 off into "bug" and '^punk" and "rots and spots." We are all in- 

 clined to do this here in the East. Out West not one man will show 

 you anything, or tell you anything, about bug, or blot, or rot. He 

 tells you that where he is, is the best place in the world, and he really 

 wants you to think so, and if jon stop there very long without say- 

 ing so, he will invite you to "move on" — and mean it too. Now, we 

 here in Pennsylvania don't want to think of "moving on." I be- 

 lieve in Pennsylvania is really the best place in the world, and here is 

 where I am coming to the Show I am supposed to tell you about. 



This Show was gotten up for the purpose of showing city people 

 that Pennsylvania is a great State to live in. We had a show that 

 really was worth having the people of Pittsburg look at. Why did 

 we take it to the city? Well, because over four hundred tliousand 

 dollars has gone from Pittsburg alone to be invested in apple or- 

 chards in the West, and not one of these people will have an apple 

 orchard. We have had as much as two hundred and fifty thousand 

 dollars go out from close neighbors to be invested in apple orchards in 

 the far Northwest. What is the sense of going 3,000 miles away to 

 raise apples, when we can raise them better at home? That is the 

 reason why we had the show, and it was a good show. There was 

 one thing that went wrong about it, and that was, it was no good 

 financially. It is not a very deep hole, however, and we will creep 

 out of it. We didn't intercede with the weatherman soon enough, 

 but we Avill keep on. We had a magnificent show of livestock. Pro- 

 fessor "S^an Norman sent down some splendid specimens, bred until 

 in the fifth or sixth generation we came down to 1/264 pure bred, 

 and they were all excellent producers. We had scores of livestock, 

 and fruit, and lectures all the time, and the beauty of it all is that it 

 was a Pennsylvania show. There was not a thing from outside of 

 Pennsylvania, except one hog (I mean one four-footed hog; I don't 

 know how many of the other kind were there) ; Oh, yes, and there 

 was a few sheep; and there was nothing shown that we could be 

 ashamed of. I hope it will be the beginning of a great fair, sup- 

 ported by the State. We need it; our State needs it. We need a 

 great many other things, but we need that especially. As Mr. Hutchi- 

 son says, this show seemed to bring about a better understanding 

 between the city people and country people. 



We have had in the City of Pittsburg two land shows; but they 

 were in the interest of the South and Southwest and of Canada. It 

 was sim])ly giving our citizens an invitation to come and see what 

 other states can do. Nov/ let us do it for Pennsylvania. Let us 

 all get together and take for our slogan the motto we have put at 

 the head of our ])aper — "Boost Pennsjivania." We can do things 

 here, if they can do things there. We can raise apples here, if they 

 can raise them three thousand miles awav from here. We can raise 



