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help along this important movement. Our college authorities tell us we 

 helped some in getting that appropriation through last year. They want to 

 advance it the next time, and what better service can we give than to help 

 that movement. The college authorities tell us they want to fill in the 

 missing link between themselves and the farm by the farm-bureau man and 

 the field demonstrator. They said it is necessary that we put some col- 

 lege men out into the field demonstrating, where they will talk to and show 

 the farmer, and we hope you will help Pennsylvania State College along 

 this line. It is not merely a question of getting into this work out of 

 sjmipathy, or anything of that kind, but this movement is getting big, 

 and the banker has been backward in getting into it. Something is going 

 to come of this movement, it is going to crystallize sooner or later, and 

 the bankers better be in it, because we want something to say on these 

 things along financial lines, and the bankers ought to have a part ui it. 

 So far as the Pennsylvania banker is concerned, I think we are progressing 

 in it, because we have the Com Exchange National Bank as a member 

 of the Pennsylvania Bankers' Association and they have been doing a 

 splendid work. It was a novel idea of Mr. CalwelFs in starting this corn 

 show and giving these cash prizes ($1,250) and we ought to be glad we 

 have in Pennsylvania a banking interest in this movement. Do you know 

 if there is any state in the Union that has a national bank taking such an 

 interest in this movement as the Com Exchange National Bank of Phila- 

 delphia? So I say we must be alive ourselves if we are not going to be 

 ashamed of ourselves by not devoting at least a portion of our time to 

 this great question of agriculture among the banking interests of the 

 country. 



Mr. Calwell : Mr. Forrest Crissey, whose name is on the program, 

 is not here today and we have an old Com Exchange Bank boy with us. 

 He is standing there near the door. [Applause.] If he hadn't gone out 

 of the bank some years ago, he would have my job today. He is 

 engaged today as city statistician. I am going to ask Dr. Cattell to speak 

 to you. 



