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the importance of picking the poultry or putting their products on the 

 market in a proper condition; they feel the people in the city do not 

 demand that. There is therefore need for co-operation along that line. 



Mks. H. M. Garrett: As a farmer, I do not have much to sell, but 

 I found out this thing about the asparagus business: When the stalks 

 are the same size all the way through the bunch, you can get a great deal 

 better price, but when there are smaller stalks in the bunch, they do not 

 get the price. The same way with eggs. If you send eggs of uniform 

 color and size, you can get a better price, but if they are mixed up you do 

 not get the same price. It is just the same with potatoes or apples or 

 anything else that you are apt to sell. 



Mrs. Smith: Mr. Critchfield, the secretary of the Pennsylvania 

 Department of Agriculture, is here, and I will call on him to give us a 

 few minutes talk today. 



Mr. Critchfield: I think you are taking advantage of my youth. 

 I do not think I can say anything except to express my gratification at 

 being here and to say that I have listened to the address with a great 

 deal of pleasure. I am delighted to be here and glad to see that the 

 people in the cities are waking up and taking an interest in this important 

 question. The farmers want some co-operation along this line, and I am 

 glad to know that the day is coming when they are going to get it. I 

 shall not detain you by any further remarks. 



Mr. Calwell: The meeting this afternoon will be held in Wither- 

 spoon Hall. All the other meetings of the conference will be held in 

 this same chamber, except on Saturday afternoon, which is a meeting 

 for bankers. All the other meetings are open for the public. The Corn 

 Show is at the Bourse, which is a building which runs from Fourth to Fifth 

 Street between Chestnut and Market. I assure you every one of these 

 meetings will be just as interesting as the one that we have had this 

 morning. Every speaker has been picked out because he represents a 

 definite idea. 



[The meeting adjourned until 2 o'clock p. m.] 



