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Gentlemen, they are trying to mislead you, but they do 

 Dot know the American public. "You can fool part of them 

 all of the time aild can fool all of them part of the time, but 

 you cannot fool all of them all of the time." 



No^\'* we went over to Albany and had the Sixty-eighth 

 meeting of that Agricultural Society for the State of New 

 York and after two or three days spent in listening to 

 splendid papers, I never heard any better, I presume you 

 have the same or equally as good here, these young men are 

 doing wonders in the matter of teaching you how to handle 

 ^our farm, how to put lime on your soil aiTd how to make it 

 sweet, how to make two blades of grass grow where one 

 grew before, how to grow better fruit, how to get rid of all 

 the worms and bugs that give you so much trouble, teaching 

 you to grow it; and my job, if you please, is teaching you 

 how to get a better price for it. 



I do not wish to be personal in that, but that is what I 

 am employed for, I am the hired man of the people of the 

 State of New York and the Commission wants to get good 

 fruit wherever they may be able to get it, and we welcome 

 jou shippers when you feel that it may be to your advantage 

 t(. use us. 



When this agricultural society got ready for resolutions, 

 they passed a resolution commending the New York State 

 Food Department for its good work, commending the Com- 

 missioner in a separate resolution by a unanimous vote, all 

 standing up, and their faces were radiant with hope and joy. 

 That is the way the people of New York State act after 

 these papers say mean things about us. If that is the way 

 the public is going to act, I hope they will keep on berating 

 {ind abusing us. We are getting accustomed to abuse and 

 really enjoy it. 



Now the consumers here Avant to know a little more 

 ?bout what we did for them, well, about the middle of Octo- 

 ber, the boys that handle the shell-game, that is the egg 

 business, in New York City, got the price up pretty high at 

 'wholesale for a quality of egg that did not exist, but last 



