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ture and to humanity, too. Without cold storage we could not buy eggs 

 for a dollar a dozen. We could not do without cold-storage facilities. 



Mrs. Smith: We will now be accused of taking sides with the cold- 

 storage people or with holding stock in the cold-storage houses. What 

 we want to do is to get all the information that we can possibly get and 

 to have a square deal for the farmer and a square deal for the consumer. 

 We want to get intelligent light thrown on all these questions, and that 

 is why we are having this conference. I am a farmer myself, and any- 

 thing about a farm that a farmer's wife has done I believe I have done, 

 and anything that a man has to do about a farm, my husband has done, 

 but nevertheless we have to acknowledge that these charges against the 

 farmer are more or less true. I had a very good farmer's wife on our 

 place last summer and she and I were particularly partners on the chicken 

 question. She came from New York State and she had been under the 

 impression, as Mr. Benjamin mentioned to us, that just any egg was a 

 good egg. On this day in question she brought a basket of eggs and said, 

 "Isn't that splendid; twenty eggs." I said, ''Yes, where did you find 

 them?" She said, ''Back of the pig pen, and I know they are all per- 

 fectly good." I said, "Very well, if they are perfectly good, we will 

 have them for supper." I can only tell you they were unspeakable. 

 That is what happened. The location of the egg basket in the farm 

 kitchen is another item. These are some of the many points that we have 

 got to have information upon. That is what we are here for. Are there 

 any questions ^desired to be asked? I will ask those who are present at 

 this afternoon's meeting to be present tonight, and we can talk to these 

 gentlemen this evening when we meet. 



Prof. C. L. King, of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 

 has a very valuable contribution to make to us on " City-Country Unity 

 Through Market Bureaus." I take pleasure in introducing Prof. King. 



