[Announcing the formation of the Philadelphia Agi'icultural Service 

 Bureau, names of the Committee and scope of the work.] 



STATEMENT. 



By Charles S. Calwell, 

 President, Corn Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia. 



At the Agricultural Conference, which was held in Philadelphia City 

 Hall, in December, I was asked to appoint a committee to establish an 

 Agricultural Service Bureau, to act as a clearing-house for agricultural 

 information and to establish mutually advantageous relations between 

 the farmer and the Philadelphia market. After giving the matter very 

 careful consideration, I have appointed the ifoUowing gentlemen: Robert 

 C. Wright, A. B. Ross, Clarence Sears Kates, Edward T. Butterworth, 

 John P. Connelly, Louis Graff, George W. Norris, Charles S. Calwell. 



This committee will work in close harmony with the State College of 

 Pennsylvania, the Experiment Stations of New Jersey, Delaware and 

 Maryland, also the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



The objects of the committee and its personnel have received the 

 hearty approval of the Mayor and ishe Administration in general. 



Mr. Wright is Freight Traffic Manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 Company, was formerly General Freight Agent of the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road Company, and is very much interested in the development of agri- 

 culture along the Pennsylvania Railroad lines. 



Mr. A. B. Ross is County Agent of Bedford County, Pa., United 

 States Department of Agriculture. His work has attracted national 

 attention, and the Government at Washington, after investigating his 

 work in Bedford County, decided to use his work as a basis for county 

 agents' work throughout the United States, and now has in course of 

 preparation a Farmers' Bulletin describing the work that has been ac- 

 complished in that coimty. 



Mr. Edward T. Butterworth is in the commission produce business 

 on Dock street. He is president of the Philadelphia Branch of the 

 National League of Commission Merchants of the United States. He has 

 been of great help to the farmers in teaching them how to pack their pro- 

 duce for shipment into the Philadelphia market. He is an expert in his 

 line, and will keep the Bureau in close touch with the commission trade, 

 so that practical information can be given to the farmer as to the stan- 

 dardization needs and requirements for growing, packing and shipping to 

 Philadelphia. 



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