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type and pure seed, hence the appropriateness of that subject in connection 

 with the Farm Bureau. 



And lastly — an unexpected and unique use by a distinctly city institu- 

 tion of the highest standing has been observed in relation to the County 

 Agent and I am happy to state that a great trust company sends to us an 

 able and enthusiastic ofl&cer to describe their method. 



You will please bear in mind that these topics are brought to your 

 attention from the limited point of view of their advantage to the city, 

 with the hope that the people of the city will be more alert to the necessity 

 of their taking active steps in facilitating the introduction of more satis- 

 factory methods of increasing their food supply, infinitely bettering the 

 quality of the food and perhaps lessening its cost to the consumer. 



And now it is but right, as it is indeed my pleasure, to express my 

 sense of the honor that has been conferred upon me by my colleagues of 

 the conference in inviting me to open this session. To President Calwell 

 I extend my thanks for the honor and beg to have him accept my congratu- 

 lations on the fine, broad-minded way he has developed this Com Show 

 and Agricultural Conference. And to the able and untiring president of 

 the Pennsylvania Rural Progress Association, whose management of the 

 programme and discussions is another example of her ability. I ask Mrs. 

 Smith to continue her services at this significant session, significant because 

 it is my hope that from it -^dll eventuate a Philadelphia Agricultural and 

 Marketing Bureau. 



Mrs. Smith: I want to refer to an expression that I heard from Dean 

 Russell, of Wisconsin. When the Wisconsin exhibition was out there last 

 summer, somebody spoke to him about a certain meeting, an agricultural 

 meeting, which took place, and said, "Was there anything accomplished 

 by the meeting, or was it just a hot air fest?" 



That is exactly what Mr. Kates wants to indicate, that this meeting 

 is not to be a hot air fest. 



Now, the Pennsylvania State Grange News, in its last number, quotes 

 resolutions which were passed by the National Grange, and among others 

 was this: "Resolved, That the excitement of holding agricultural meetings 

 in various parts of the country, for no purpose whatever except an apparent 

 desire on the part of people to uplift those who do not want uplifting" — 

 I am not quoting it exactly, but that is about the gist of it — "is to be 

 discouraged." 



Now, you see it is to be discouraged that people should get together 

 with no object in view, but, as Mr. Kates pointed out, there is a very 

 definite object in view and there is to be something left over from this 

 conference. There is a real object before us and that is to assist in the 

 solving of these problems, and there is very reasonable hope that the object 

 will be attained. 



