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we in the country would hardly feed to a self-respecting hog. Altoona, 

 Johnstown, Wilkes-Barre and other cities in our state today are supplied 

 with food that has long since passed the state in which it is thoroughly 

 wholesome. We must get the county man to help supply, in place of 

 that, stuff which reaches the market in first-class condition. 



I have spoken at some length about the Farm Bureau and what it 

 is doing. What it is going to do is another matter. It must reach out 

 and cover this food supply proposition, not simply for its own district, but 

 help to supply food for Philadelphia and other large cities. 



The question which confronts us today in Philadelphia is not simply 

 the high cost of living, as that problem will solve itself when we have 

 followed out the suggestions of Dr. Carver to standardize our stuff and 

 ship it by more direct methods and procure from the present distributing 

 agencies the service they can give us if they will. We have another and 

 quite as serious a problem, that of supplying the laboring man, who is 

 the backbone of all our city institutions — of supplying him and his family 

 not simply with cheap food, but with wholesome food; and we must give 

 him what we might call a wider selective ration. His food must not be 

 confined to a few articles, eaten day after day, but, so far as it is within 

 his means, he must have a choice of a number of things from which to 

 select his daily food. And this is not only because it is a question of 

 health but also a question of efficiency in his work. 



He must have wholesome, palatable food, properly varied, to be 

 contented; because a man, unless he is in a contented state of mind, 

 unless his interior machinery is working smoothly, humming like a motor 

 at its best, cannot do his best work. 



So the food supply reaches to the very foundation of things, involves 

 the manufacturing efficiency of the unit and, for that reason, affects the 

 commercial supremacy of the city. 



It is a question of such importance, viewed in this light, that every 

 manufacturing interest in the city should take a strong interest in any 

 effort to better the food supply of the city. They simply cannot afford 

 to do otherwise. 



At the request of Mr. Calwell I want to describe to you briefly a 

 method we are using in buying supplies for the farm. 



Our present system of agricultural education is strong in the middle 

 and weak at both ends. We are training the farmer along lines of better 

 and more economical production, striving to increase his crops; but no 

 provision is made for training our men so that they will go into the field 

 and teach the farmer how to buy effectively in order that he may produce 

 more economically; and, at the other end, we are not training our men so 

 that they can show the farmer how, when he has produced stuff for the 

 market, to market it so that it will take its proper standing in the market 

 and the farmer will get out of it what he is entitled to. We are not teach- 

 ing him how to standardize and grade and pack and handle his stuff so 

 that it will bring what it should. 



