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Mrs. Smith: They pick out a Ben Davis every time? 



Mr. Albright: Yes. Now, the city people can learn something. 

 If they are willing to come out to the country we will educate them. We 

 hear a lot from these city men about farming. If they would come to us, 

 they would know something. I know a man who bought a farm, over two 

 hundred acres, and I was near enough to recommend a first class man to 

 him to manage it. No, he didn't want that; he came over here and 

 employed a scientific farmer, graduate of a college, to manage it. He 

 managed it three years, and it cost that man fourteen thousand dollars 

 over what he produced, and he quit in disgust. I live in the sand-hills of 

 New Jersey — 



Mrs. Smith: Have you got any boys? 



Mr. Albright: I have four of them, all farmers. I have had some 

 experience with graduates from agricultural colleges. One of them spent 

 half his time studying and he never amounted to anything. It was not 

 in him. The Board of Health in Philadelphia and New York require milk 

 to be delivered at a temperature of fifty, instead of sixty. Dr. Neff, in 

 his every-day bulletin, says we have killed so many babies by shipping 

 hot milk here, simply because the temperature was sixty, instead of fifty, 

 but friends, the rest of your lives read the North American. If anyone 

 reads the North American, he is all right. They said last spring about 

 having milk come in refrigerator cars, which costs the farmer three cents 

 extra for refrigerating, and Dr. Neff stated that there was such a high rate 

 of mortality among children in June, 1913, I made up my mind that these 

 babies must have been killed by having milk come in too cold. Now, that 

 North American editorial comes next to the Bible with me. Now, we hear 

 a lot about saving babies. I heard there were three hundred had died and 

 yet they insist upon cold milk coming in. How are you going to save them? 

 Cold milk won't save them. One of our members of Congress wants to 

 have a law passed that we must not kill our cattle under two years. What 

 are you going to do for veal? I think the people want education, and if 

 they will stay with us farmers a while, we will educate them. Then talking 

 about eggs; we have people come over to Jersey and buy up these sand 

 lots and only stay a month or two. One party came and bought a big 

 piece of land, and out of five hundred eggs they got eighteen chickens. 

 We had seven hundred eggs, and were going to raise broilers, and I was 

 going to supply hotels, and we only had one chicken which represented 

 seven hundred eggs. I tell you it is worth a good deal to be a farmer, and 

 there is nothing as green in the world as a city boy in the country. I think 

 I have said enough. 



Mrs. Smith : I would Hke to hear from others. 



Mr. Douglas: I am a city man born on a farm. I have brought 

 eggs down to a wholesale commission dealer in eggs in Philadelphia, who 



