the proper farm help is a very important part of the object of this 

 meeting, to restore some farms in New York State that have been 

 abandoned, as I understand it, and to aid you and aid the farmers 

 of this State in securing the help that is necessary for this important 

 work. When you consider that during the year 1910 there probably 

 will have been more than 1,000,000 people admitted to this country 

 from the old country, you will have to consider how they are going 

 to be fed. The only way you can feed them, as I understand the 

 agricultural situation to-day, is to open up more farms in the West 

 and to supply farmers in both the East and West with proper, and 

 competent, and sufficient men to help to properly till and cultivate 

 their farms. This is one of the incidents that must be considered, 

 and I am simply here for the Department of Commerce & Labor 

 and our Secretary, to say that we are glad and ready and willing, 

 and will do everything in our power to assist in securing the proper 

 kind and amount of labor through our Immigration Bureau, if this 

 is possible." 



(Applause). 



BY THE CHAIRMAN : 



"There is one element very closely allied to our farming interests. 

 The farm depends upon it and could not get along without it. Some 

 people criticize it ; we all like it and have to have it. We have a 

 gentleman here to-day who represents one of the large institutions 

 of this State and extending into other States. We all know what he 

 is, but I want to tell you that he is one of the leading farmers of 

 the country. Some may not realize it, but he is a practical, first- 

 class farmer. He knows what to do and how to do it. It gives me 

 great pleasure to introduce Mr. W. C. Brown, President of the New 

 York Central Lines." \ 



(Vigorous applause as Mr. Brown takes his place on the plat- 

 form). 



MR. W. C. BROWN, President of the New York Central Lines, said: 

 "Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen: Perhaps it is due the 

 ladies and gentlemen present to say a word in explanation of the 

 graphic chart, or diagram, that is hung on the blackboard. That was 

 made up by experts employed by me, and its history is this : In 1860 

 the New York Central Railroad built in Buffalo four large grain 

 elevators. They have been repaired from time to time, but during 

 the last two or three years it became very evident that those elevators 



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