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of this question are represented at this meeting. Consequently we need 

 a clear explanation and a perfect understanding of where we stand. We 

 had some misunderstanding and a little difference at the meeting yester- 

 day, but I do not know but what it added to the general interest. That 

 reminds me of a story that I am very fond of. I think the best story- 

 teller is Booker T. Washington. He tells a story of when he was first 

 starting to school, when he had great difficulty in getting a class room. 

 Finally he had to resort to using a chicken house. He went one morning 

 to a neighbor and he said, ''Uncle Rastus, could you help me clean out 

 that chicken house?" Uncle Rastus, a little confused, said, ''Say, 

 Brother Washington, don't you know any better than that? You can't 

 clean out a chicken house in the daytime." [Laughter.] He misunder- 

 stood him, and that is the point here; we want to understand each other. 

 We want to get together. That is what this meeting will certainly bring 

 about. 



We are now to hear from Mr. A. B. Ross, in charge of the Farm 

 Bureau of Bedford County, Pa. He has done a most unique work there 

 and is often spoken of as the expert missionary, because of the fact that 

 Mr. Ross is the first man, perhaps, to realize that this matter of training 

 the farmer could only be done in the farmer's kitchen, with personal inter- 

 views, close touch with the men, and not through lectures, pamphlets 

 and things of that kind. A farmer is like all the rest of us — he wants 

 to be shown, and showing how he did it is what Mr. Ross is going to talk 

 about this morning. We feel that this is a very significant talk that we 

 are going to have from Mr. Ross. The thinkers of this country feel that 

 Mr. Ross, more than any other man in the United States, has solved the 

 question of how to bring the farmer to see this question of standardiza- 

 tion, which Dr. Carver spoke of just now, and he has shown it to the 

 farmer as a money-making proposition. I want to say this: we all go to 

 Pennsylvania State College and state colleges and attend agricultural 

 meetings. I am not going to knock Pennsylvania State College again, 

 as I was accused of doing yesterday, for I feel anything but that way. 

 I have the most sincere regard for State College, but I think that Dr. 

 Watts would back me up in saying that the farmers could not see any 

 better things than I did the other day, when we were taken through the 

 food industry of this city, down on Front and Dock Streets, and see what 

 these city people want to eat. I am a farmer, but I did not know they 

 wanted chickens packed in white pine boxes, wrapped in paraffine paper. 

 I did not know that the minute I washed an egg on my farm, that I 

 spoiled the egg. How many farmers know that eggs do not have to be 

 washed? How many farmers know that? They think they are extra 

 careful because they wash the eggs, and they told me in the commission 

 house that a washed egg is about half gone before it gets here. The 

 worst thing to do to an egg is to wash it. Those are the kind of things 

 that Mr. Ross is teaching in Bedford County, and I now take great pleas- 

 ure in introducing Mr. A. B. Ross. 



