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ness, that these farmers^ exchanges now springing up all over the land 

 have their basic function, and in the consciousness of aiding to bring the 

 great work of distributing our farm products up to the same standards 

 of enlightened and enterprising efficiency that prevail in other depart- 

 ments of our national industry that the architects and inciters of these 

 movements must find their chief satisfaction. And if in my fragmentary 

 account of the work of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Produce Exchange 

 there has seemed to be nothing very new or remarkable, if its aims and 

 methods have seemed merely analogous to those of any other well-regulated 

 business enterprise, I ask you to recall Doctor Johnson's illustration 

 of the dog walking upon its hind legs — a performance which he described 

 as not remarkable in itself, nor for the intrinsic excellence with which it 

 was done, but because it was a dog that did it — and to reflect that the true 

 import of this work and the augury which it carries of a better era lie in 

 the fact that it has been the unaided work, in a typical community, of 

 the American farmer, who has so long been the dog, and the under dog, 

 in our industrial life and has so generally been contented to go aimlessly 

 upon all-fours in the vital matter of the marketing of his products. 



Mr. Calwell: We have with us Mr. Stubbs, who is chairman of 

 the Agricultural Committee of the Pennsylvania Bankers' Association. 

 I would like to give him three or four minutes if he will come to the plat- 

 form. 



Mr. Stubbs: When we are told, as we just have been told by Mr. 

 Harris, how many acres we control in Pennsylvania, of course we then have 

 to consider ourselves bankers. We have no doubt all listened to the pam- 

 phlet Mr. Harris read on Pennsylvania Agricultural Statistics, showing 

 Pennsylvania in the rear. I attended, as Mr. Harris has told you of, the 

 convention in Minneapolis and in Kansas City. I must say I was ashamed 

 to see how lacking we were in interest in agricultural matters. Mr. Harris 

 has certainly given us a splendid address, and I believe this subject of 

 extension work of agricultural colleges is going to be more and more an 

 important factor in their work, and we need to interest ourselves in it. 

 The members of the Pennsylvania Agricultural College, Mr. McDowell 

 and Mr. Watts, have already told us of some of the work being done there 

 and also as to the annual appropriations the college receives from the 

 state, last year $20,000 being appropriated. And I think you will all agree 

 with me when I say the work of the field demonstrator is a most efficient 

 medium in extension work. As one of our Washington men has told 

 us, when he sits in his office in Washington and sends out circulars and 

 correspondence, progress is slow, but when he goes out or sends represen- 

 tatives to the states in the South where he has been doing the work, then 

 he gets results. We want to advance along the line of the field demon- 

 strator. It is certain that the Committee on Agriculture of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Bankers' Association will again come to you in an effort to have you 



