AT THE BANQUET 



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WEDNESDAY EVENING. 



AT THE BANQUET. 



Mr. Fullerton: It gives me great pleasure to introduce 

 one of the rarest things on earth, a man that really knows 

 what he is talking about. I love professors. My dearest 

 friends are professors. I do not think there are any in our 

 family at all, but as I have got in this game I have found 

 more professors than there are market gardeners. I have 

 read more books than I have met market gardeners. It is 

 very rare that you get an after dinner speaker or a great 

 speaker, a noted speaker, that knows anything whatever about 

 the subject on which he speaks. Nearly all of them prime 

 up either on a United States bulletin or one from the College, 

 or go down to the Astor Library in New York and get all the 

 data; but Dean Watts was formerly merely just a plain every 

 day cabbage grower. When a man has grown cabbages 

 enough to support a wife and children, well, he knows some- 

 thing about cabbages. He knows about cabbages, he has 

 raised quite a number of professors, and he has elevated him- 

 self from a professor to a dean of the agricultural college of 

 the biggest state in the United States outside of Texas. Dean 

 Watts of Pennsylvania State College, who will speak to us 

 on "Professors and Cabbages." He knows about them both. 



PROFESSORS AND CABBAGES. 

 R. L. Watts, State College, Pennsylvania, 



I congratulate the vegetable growers of New York on the 

 success of this Association, and in assembling such a large 

 body of men and women at the annual banquet of the mem- 

 bers. I wish that Pennsylvania were as far along in the 

 organization of our vegetable work as your state, but we have 

 made a start and we expect to make splendid progress dur- 

 ing the next few years. 



The subject which appears on the menu is quite different 

 from the one on which I was asked to speak, but I have been 

 thinking, since looking over the program, that professors and 

 cabbages are similar in that both are sometimes hard drinkers 

 and both become ''busted" occasionally. 



