192 



On the basis of the entire farm, Pennsylvania farms average 4.3 

 cows each while Vermont averages 8.1, New York 7. 



In these nine states Pennsylvania again brings up the rear in the 

 average farm value of dairy products at $192.22, while Massachusetts' 

 farms average $411.40, Rhode Island $390.39, New York $360.89. 



Pennsylvania barely leads with an average of 4.5 hogs per farm, 

 while, for example, Iowa has 34.8, Florida, 16.2. 



All the nine states, except Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, 

 also lead Pennsylvania in egg and poultry production per farm, for Penn- 

 sylvania averages $117.56, Massachusetts $251.43 and Delaware $166.81. 



In the total value of crops per farm, Pennsylvania with $760.35 

 is below all except Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, and really 

 below them on basis of cultivated acres. 



More livestock and dairying would help Pennsylvania farm incomes 

 and soil. 



We are just beginning to practice in Illinois what Abraham Lincoln 

 suggested fifty years ago. Abraham Lincoln put it this way: ''Unques- 

 tionably it requires more labor to produce fifty bushels of wheat from 

 one acre than ten bushels of wheat from one acre; but does it require 

 more labor to produce fifty bushels from one acre than from five?" In 

 other words, we want to raise our crops on fewer acres and devote the 

 balance to livestock, because in so doing we are helping to maintain 

 the farm by feeding the livestock and should thereby get two profits for 

 our crops. 



The movement of the banker in behalf of agriculture is not a move- 

 ment simply for productivity, but also to up-build the farm — to make life 

 on the farm worth living, and unless -we make that life and all its condi- 

 tions what it should be, we won't win on the productive side. We must 

 make the farm more likable. There are two kinds of rural decay. We 

 have it in various sections of the country. One is the kind that takes 

 place under the ground that enriches the soil, and the other takes place 

 on top of the land and impoverishes the people. The latter is the thing 

 the bankers' committees are fighting against. We feel that the care 

 of the soil and the care of its caretakers is the most important problem 

 we face. 



You have been very patient, and I wish to thank you and congratu- 

 late Mr. Calwell again on this auspicious event. 



Mr. Calwell: We are in one of the richest agricultural sections 

 of the United States, I understand. The last census gives Lancaster 

 County as the richest county in the United States. In money value of 

 farms, Chester County was No. 3, and Bucks County was No. 5. Here 

 we are, right around us. [Applause.] 



When you go over to Jersey, and down to Delaware and Maryland, 

 all I know is the ''Eastern Shore" [applause]; the ground is the best you 



