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can get for agricultural purposes anywhere in the United States. And 

 it is not being developed. A banker told me (he is not here today) that 

 right in this city he knew of ground along the creek or river that was 

 twenty feet deep in red soil and nobody using it. He said you could 

 get that ground for $5.00 to $10.00 per acre, and the richest kind of soil. 

 Why doesn't New Jersey establish an experimental station on that ground? 

 I think it would tone up some of these sections there in South Jersey. 



We have found in what we have done in this corn conference that 

 it is hard to get in touch with the farmer. He doesn't come to these 

 meetings, only half of them, and he doesn't want to bother with reading 

 about economics of the farm, so the best way we have heard of here as 

 to reaching him is by direct work. The ablest man I know of, one of 

 the very best in the country, is a man whom we have with us here today. 

 Dr. William D. Hurd, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Am- 

 herst, Massachusetts. He has gone into this extension work right out on 

 the farms and taught the people how to improve their farms and to en- 

 courage them in this connection. 



Senator Gore was in attendance at this conference a few days ago. 

 He said he had just introduced a bill in Congress which would authorize the 

 establishing of a farm bureau in every county throughout the State of 

 Pennsylvania. That bill is going to come before Congress. It has already 

 been presented, and I think Pennsylvania ought to be very proud, and the 

 Pennsylvania bankers, and the New Jersey bankers, the Delaware bankers 

 and Maryland bankers should take some interest in the bill, because that is 

 the best way of helping agriculture, by getting some one who can go 

 out on the farm and teach the farmer right on his own ground what he 

 ought to do. 



I take great pleasure in introducing Dr. William D. Hurd, who will 

 talk to us on extension work. 



