are large numbers of them who have been terribly discouraged. There 

 are large numbers of them who in years past have hardly been able 

 to see how they could keep their homes on the farms. 



"What the farmers to-day want is help, and not charity. What 

 they want is fair play, (Applause). They want help in connection 

 with the marketing of their products. Part of the blame is on them- 

 selves. They need to have faults all along the line to the very doors 

 of the consumers' houses corrected. They need help to learn the 

 unused and best methods of farming. Methods of farming have been 

 almost completely revolutionized, in some branches at least, in the 

 last decade. Go upon the modern, fruit farm, and you will hardly 

 see an important branch of work done as it was done ten years ago 

 They need instruction on unused methods of farming, 225,000 of 

 them need it. 



"Secondly, they want fair prices for their products. They have 

 to sell a quart of milk for three cents. A cow costs $60, and it costs 

 $60 a year to keep it, and the product of many a cow in the State 

 has brought $60 a year. They could get only three cents, or there- 

 abouts, for their milk. They want a fair price for that milk. With 

 these things and some few others I might mention, the farmers will 

 co-operate with all interested in the very rapid settlement of their 

 problems. 



"The farmers of the State want more people on the farms. We 

 want gentlemen like I see in this audience on the farms of the State 

 you, and others like you. We do not want on the farms of this 

 State shiftless, unsuccessful persons who cannot* make their own way 

 in this great city. There are very few of that kind who succeed 

 on farms. We want men who will be able to give a good account 

 of themselves; men who have a liking for the country, and let the 

 others who have a liking for the city take your places. So, I say 

 have the farmers of the city come up into the country. We want 

 more farmers. We want you to come up where you can take ad- 

 vantage of the conditions that are now beginning to improve, where 

 you can enjoy freedom, where every American enjoys it, and nowhere 

 better than on the farm in New York State." 



(Hearty applause). 



BY THE CHAIRMAN : 



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"After hearing that address of Commissioner Pearson, I am sure 

 we all want to be farmers ; New York City possesses no more attrac- 



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