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In a brief resume then, there are really three forms of increasing 

 grain production : one is following the simple common-sense rules already 

 knoTVTi relative to selection of seed, seed bed, rate of seeding, etc.; 

 second, of which little is known, is the improvement by means of breeding, 

 but most important and our greatest need at the present time is system. 



[The morning session at this point adjourned until 2 p. m.] 



Friday, December 5, 1913, 2 p. m. 



Honorary Chairman, Alba Johnson, Esquire, President, Baldwin Loco- 

 motive Works. 



Mr. Johnson: Whatever draws the city and country closer together 

 makes for the welfare of both, and also means for the farmer more money, 

 for the railroads more traffic, and for the community lower prices. 



The broader problems connected with the production, transportation 

 and distribution of food products, mil bring about more intelligent laws, 

 and will conduce, therefore, to the welfare of both the producer and of the 

 consumer. 



That in a general way as I understand it is the underlying thought 

 which prompts this conference. 



The first speaker upon the programme for this afternoon is the Honor- 

 able Charles A. Prouty, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, who was 

 to have spoken upon the subject of "Agricultural Freight as a Means of 

 Rural Development." Commissioner Prouty is a man of such ripe knowl- 

 edge upon the freight subject, pertaining to transportation, that it is 

 a serious disappointment to us that his official duties in Washington, 

 caused by sudden removal by death of certain members of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission, has made it impossible for him to be present, and 

 therefore we shall not have the pleasure of listening to his address. 



Chairman, Mrs. Smith: The first address of the afternoon will be 

 one upon the subject of "Municipal Markets" by Hon. Cyrus C. Miller. 



Hon. Cyrus C. Miller, Chairman, Mayor of New York's Commit- 

 tee on Municipal Markets and President of the Borough of the Bronx : I 

 propose to talk to you on the subject of "Municipal Terminal Markets," 

 amplifying the thought that our intensive farming, and the larger areas 

 which are now planted with fruit trees and crops, foretell a very serious 

 danger not only to the people who are doing the planting but to the people 

 in the cities who ought to get the results of what is planted. In other 

 words, we are threatened with overproduction unless we increase our 

 terminal and distribution facilities, as well as our production. 



I shall be very glad to answer any questions if time allows after I have 

 finished my address. 



