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State. If we want our farms to sell for a fair price, if we want to 

 have a demand for our farm lands that will put and keep their 

 price up to their actual agricultural value, we must let the world 

 know what lands we have and what our land will produce. We 

 must get busy and boost our agriculture as other sections do theirs. 

 The railroads see this more clearly than we do. They have begun a 

 campaign of development, not from motives of benevolence, but be- 

 cause they want to raise more freight. We should begin a cam- 

 paign of development, not only developing our lands but so adver- 

 tisiny their worth that more men and money will become interested 

 in their development. As long as we remain quiescent so long will 

 the rest of the world regard Pennsylvania as a manufacturing state 

 only and forget our greatest industry as it has done in the past. 

 When our farmers realize the possibilities of their situation they will 

 become more enthusiastic, and enthusiasm means success. Let a 

 lot of men go into any agricultural section of this State with the 

 same enthusiasm and determination they would show in developing 

 a new western country and they will succeed. Why not, with roads, 

 schools, churches and public buildings 'already built and not to be 

 built from taxes on the land and its products? This show is intended 

 to create such inteiest and enthusiasm, to teach the lessons of devel- 

 opment of old instead of new territory. 



Many of you, most of you in fact, are consumers of agricultural 

 products rather than producers of them. You consumers have as 

 great an interest in this development of Pennsylvania agriculture 

 as the producers have. All consumers are concerned in the high 

 cost of foods. And why is the cost so high? Because food prices 

 here in Pennsylvania include not only payment of the producer, 

 but payment of freights and transfers part of which might be saved 

 by greater nearby production. The producer gets about 4G per cent, 

 of what the consv mer pays for food. The other 54 per cent, is in 

 the cost of getting the food from the producer to the consumer. This 

 is a tremendous waste which can be partly saved by nearby pro- 

 duction ; but much more of it can be saved if producers and con- 

 sumers will get together. Here is the place to meet and discuss 

 this problem, which is becoming more acute all the time. Con- 

 simeis ma^' find here how to buy to avoid the man of false measure. 

 They may learn what quality means by studying these exhibits. 

 They may learn how to buy meats, poultry, dairy products and fruits 

 from the lectures we have provided to instruct them at every session 

 of this exposition. Their children, the city children who never saw 

 a colt or a pig or a lamb, are welcome to come here every morning 

 in care of their teachers. City and country don't understand each 

 other simply because they don't know each other. Here they may 

 meet with a common interest and learn more about each other and 

 the great food problem that only co-operation based on this knowledge 

 will ever solve. 



Study this sliow. You people of Pittsburg tell us if finer police, 

 fire or work horses are to be found in any other city than those 

 in this arena. Look at the magnificent specimen of livestock, all 

 from Pennsylvania farms. See the fruits and note the counties that 

 raised them. Look at the dairy products. Study the modern machines 

 and appliances along these walls. Don't miss the spleniid educa- 



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