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should get some of the benefits of these high prices. I beUeve it is possible 

 to develop in Philadelphia a bureau of information, where the farmer can 

 come and get information about markets, and about fertilizers and seeds; 

 also a bureau where good immigrants could find out where they could locate 

 on good farms. They are running Immigrant Departments in the states 

 out West. Why should we ijot get some of these good men, men who have 

 gone out to Minnesota and developed farms? Why could not the same 

 thing be pursued up in Bucks County and different locations which have 

 just as good soil? I believe there is great opportunity for development 

 in the southern part of New Jersey, the eastern part of Pennsylvania, 

 Delaware and Maryland. 



We are going to take up the question of cold storage and transporta- 

 tion. Judging from the bill passed at the last legislature, we need to 

 take that up and study it a little, because that bill is the worst bill in 

 the United States, and is going to do a great deal of harm right here in 

 this city. You are going to find that butter and eggs are going to be 

 very much higher unless we can get people outside of the state to ship 

 in cold storage goods beyond the time set by the legislature. Why should 

 such a law pass? We ought to think about these laws before they are 

 passed. That is one of the questions that we are going to take up 

 tomorrow afternoon. We will also have meetings here on boys' and 

 girls' corn clubs, and on Saturday the bankers' meeting. So, we will 

 have plenty of discussion, and there is no need in my spending any more 

 time talking on those subjects today. 



We have present this morning Senator Gore, from Oklahoma. He 

 has come from a great distance and is a very busy man. I know he has 

 a lot of figures which he accumulated in Washington. We appreciate 

 Senator Gore's coming here. He is interested in agriculture, and as 

 chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the Senate, I am sure he 

 can give us a message that will help us along in this great movement. 

 I take pleasure in introducing Senator Thomas P. Gore. 



