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$15,000, the next year $50,000, and now we have $50,000 appropriated by 

 the state for this work. 



Mr. Calwell: Pennsylvania has $10,000 appropriated for this 

 same work. The paper Dr. Hurd has just read to us is going to be pub- 

 Hshed, and there is enough in that paper to keep us bankers busy for the 

 next five or ten years. 



The raising of crops is not the only thing, the increase of crops is not 

 the only thing. They must be marketed. 



One of the greatest successes of the country is the forming of these 

 farmers' exchanges in different sections, to collect goods and ship them 

 into the stations in carload lots. 



One of the most successful of these exchanges has been formed down 

 m Virginia, and we have with us Mr. N. P. Wescott of the Eastern Shore 

 of Virginia Produce Exchange. Mr. Wescott is very well known through- 

 out agricultural sections as one of the leaders in this movement. 



Mr. Wescott will now address you. 



