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Addresses Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the 
 
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 DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE 
 
 ANNUAL MEETING 
 
 PAUL FISCHER, 
 STATE VETERINARIAN. 
 
 Agreeably to a motion introduced in the annual meeting of the Ohio 
 State Board of Agriculture, and unanimously adopted, providing that 
 the addresses delivered before that body, by Governor A. L. Harris and 
 President A. P. Sandles, be published in pamphlet form and distributed 
 as widely as possible throughout the farming districts of our state, we 
 
 issue this pamphlet as a Bulletin of this Department. 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 Ne CALVERT: 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 President Sandies. in introducing the Governor, said: 
 
 Gentlemen, The committee has returned with satisfactory evidence 
 of the successful performance of its mission. 
 
 How to keep the boy on the farm, has become a serious problem 
 which has not yet had a solution. I want the boy to stay on the farm 
 just as long as it is good for him, and no longer. Whenever that boy can - 
 do more good for himself, and his fellowman, by leaving the farm, he has 
 my permission to go. 
 
 Today, more than ever before, this country of ours needs good men 
 and true. Men who can and will perform ably and well those duties per- 
 taining to public office and public trust. I am one who has faith in the 
 farmer boy. So far as I am concerned he can have the best there is. 
 Our committee has just presented a splendid example of this kind. 
 
 [ am sure that no one here —I doubt if many in Ohio— regret the 
 fact that General Andrew L. Harris left the farm and came to the 
 Governor’s office. (Applause). He is a farm product, homegrown and 
 hand-spanked. His has been a busy, useful life. He has delivered the 
 goods wherever he has been placed. (Applause). 
 
 When Lincoln called for volunteers he was among the first to 
 “shoulder arms’? and march away. He did not come home ‘until “Dixie 
 Land” was “Uncle Sam’s.” His comrades knew his worth. His pro- 
 motion to a generalship was merit well rewarded. (Applause). 
 
 Frequently since the days of war he has been called to public duty. 
 Each time the summons came, found him toiling on the farm. It was 
 after a day’s work in the field, and while returning to his home, that 
 the governorship of Ohio met him in the middle of the road. The office 
 found the man. 
 
 The story told of old Cincinnatus, who left his plow to fight the 
 enemies of Rome, is not more picturesque than this. 
 
 His splendid administration is evidence, beyond reasonable doubt, 
 that those who come from the farm can perform the duties and keep 
 the trust of public office, as well as they who come from other walks of 
 life. (Applause). 
 
 Ohio deserves a good governor, and has one. In fact, I am just 
 a little fearful that in 1908, some foolish Democrat will move to suspend 
 the rules and make his re-election unanimous. (Applause). 
 
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 I know that you are going to give him a hearty reception. I am 
 sure that while he speaks he will have your undivided attention. I have 
 the honor of introducing to the greatest agricultural meeting ever held 
 in this state, Andrew L. Harris, the Farmer Governor of Ohio. (Ap- 
 
 plause). 
 
ADDRESS OF 
 HON. A. L. HARRIS, 
 
 Governor of Ohio 
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ADDRESS OF HON A. L. HARRIS. 
 
 GOVERNOR Harris: Mr. President, 
 
 PRESIDENT SANDLES: Mr. Farmer, 
 
 GoveRNor Harris: and gentlemen of the State Board of Agricul- 
 ture of Ohio, and Delegates from your Respective Counties: 
 
 I assure you that I appreciate this greeting. I wish I could come 
 up to the high standard that your President has just accorded me. | 
 have known Mr. Sandles for some time. I have been very intimately 
 acquainted with him for a year or more, and I[ do not know that I could 
 do any better than to pass upon him an eulogy similar to the one he has 
 passed upon me, and then take my seat. (Applause). I am sure he 
 deserves it; but probably Mr. Sandles and the members of your Society 
 might not be entirely satisfied with that. I believe that his administra- 
 tion of your affairs has been highly appreciated by everyone who has 
 had an opportunity of seeing the work that has been done. (Applause). 
 
 I was captured one day last Fall, similarly to the way I was cap: 
 tured today, and I was taken out to the Fair Grounds during the time of 
 the Exposition. I had not been there for a few years. The fact is | 
 have been so busy for the past few years that I have not been able to 
 attend the State Fairs, and I am sorry for it. Years ago I was an habit- 
 ual attendant. When I went out this year and saw the great progress 
 that had been made in my absence I was very agreeably surprised. I 
 then appreciated that Ohio had the best fair of any state in the Union. 
 (Applause). I appreciated the fact that she has the nicest grounds and 
 improvements for exhibits of any state in the Union; but while you 
 have reached so high a degree of excellence, there is always an oppor- 
 tunity for further improvement. 
 
 I hope that the Legislature of Ohio will continue to encourage your 
 Society, that the march of improvement may go on, and, having at- 
 tained this high position, that you will not permit any other state in 
 this Union to overtake vou. (Applause). 
 
 1 have said this much for your Society. I will not attempt to go 
 into details, because I might spoil a good speech which your President 
 is going to deliver when he gives an account of the work that has been 
 done by your administration. 
 
 I want to say to the delegates from the different counties that I 
 hear good reports from every county in the state which has an agricul- 
 tural society. There are a few county fairs that have not proved quite as 
 interesting as they might have done, but as a rule, the reports that have 
 
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 come in are encouraging. I am very glad to know that to a very great 
 extent factions have disappeared, and we do not have the trouble now 
 that we had a few years ago when one very energetic faction of farmers 
 was trying to pull down the work being done by another faction which 
 was in control. 
 
 It is unfortunate when any such condition exists, and I hope that in 
 every county you will help the cause along and be careful not to try to 
 undo the good work if you do not happen to be a part of the machinery 
 that is doing it. 
 
 I know that down in our part of the country we think we have the 
 best county fairs in the ‘state; but I am sure that if I were to make 
 that assertion here as a fact I would get into trouble with your President, 
 because he thinks that in Putnam county they have the best Agricul- 
 tural Society and the best local fair in the state. I am not going to deny 
 it, for.the reason that I have never visited that exhibition, but some 
 time in the future I hope to be again captured by your President and 
 be compelled to go to Putnam county and see whether his words are true 
 as to the high standard to which the Agricultural Society of his county has 
 brought its fair. If he does take me there, and I find that it is true, 
 then [ will say to my friends in Butler county, “You will have to take 
 a back seat and let Putnam county take the front seat;” but still then I 
 do not know but I will be compelled to say that Butler has the largest 
 fair and possibly the most successful County association there is in the 
 state. | am saying this gratuitously; I am saying this because Butler 
 is a near neighbor of mine; and then I do not know but I might say in 
 a muld way that Preble county in next to Butler! 
 
 I am glad that the different societies in the state are doing so well. 
 It speaks well for the interest that is being manifested in the different 
 counties, and which, of course, lends itself to the great work which 
 your State Society is doing. 
 
 A few years ago it was thought that the industry of agriculture was 
 of minor importance in the United States; but I see in the Report of the 
 Secretary of Agriculture that this last year it has contributed in com- 
 mercial value to the products of this country six billion, seven hundred 
 and ninety-four million dollars. This is more than any other industry 
 has contributed in raw material and finished products. Of course manu- 
 facturers are ahead, but remember they have largely converted raw 
 material into finished products. But the farmer is the one who produces 
 the finished product. No one else works it over before him; therefore 
 I say that in finished product the industry of agriculture is ahead of all 
 other industries in the United States; and as a result Congress has 
 recognized this fact and has been very liberal in its appropriations for 
 the encouragement of this industry. 
 
 We have the great Department of Agriculture at Washington; and 
 for its support the Congress of the (Jnited States is increasing the ap- 
 
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 propriation year by year. For this year the appropriation is, I believe, 
 nine million, two hundred and ten thousand dollars, which is exclusive 
 of the allowance for new buildings. It is for the work of the Depart- 
 ment, and for the purpose of carrying out to the full expectations of 
 Congress, all the different inquiries in which the Department of Agricul- 
 ture is interested. It has over six thousand employes on its payroll. 
 Many of its experts are sent into different parts of this country and into 
 foreign countries for the purpose of getting information helpful to the 
 farmers. In addition to this, the Department is looking very carefully 
 after all of the wants of the farmer in this country. It is protecting him 
 as far as possible against diseases of all kinds which are injurious to 
 his animals. It is trying to protect him against disease and insects which 
 attack his plants. It is protecting him in every way possible, in order that 
 the money which he has invested in his farm lands, his live stock, his 
 implements and in his labor, may bring the proper return. 
 
 Congress has been very liberal in another matter that is of great 
 importance to the people of the state of Ohio and to the people of the 
 United States; and that is the support it is giving to the Experiment 
 Stations of this and other states. Every state in this Union, which has 
 an Experiment Station, receives fifteen thousand dollars annually under 
 the Hatch Act which was passed in 1887; and under the Adams Act, 
 which was passed this last year, five thousand dollars; and two thousand 
 dollars to be added each year for five years, making at the end of 1911, 
 fifteen thousand dollars additional, which is to be continuous from that 
 time; making thirty thousand dollars annually that the United States 
 will appropriate for the benefit of the Experiment Stations of each state. 
 This is not for the purpose of making money directly, by the Experiment 
 Stations, but for experimental and scientific research, in order that the 
 farmer may be saved the expense and trouble: of conducting such experi- 
 ments and making such research himself. After the investigations are 
 made and the truths determined, the results are printed and distributed 
 over the whole country, and especially in the state where the experiments 
 are made. We can very readily understand the importance of this work. 
 It is not necessary for you or for me to experiment in a scientific way, 
 because we know that we have an Experiment Station that is doing it 
 better and more systematically than it is possible for us to do it. All we 
 have to do, if our conditions are similar to those where the experiments 
 have been made, is to adopt them and profit thereby. The figures that 
 I have just quoted in regard to the aggregate value of agricultural pro- 
 ducts for the last year are in part due to the faithful work of the Experi- 
 ment Stations in the United States and our use of the information gained. 
 We know that the state of Ohio is increasing in production year by year, 
 and that we are raising better crops and better animals today than we 
 raised in former years. In addition to this, we can, to some extent, 
 overcome the effect of dry or wet weather better now than then. If it 
 
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 is too dry we have methods of cultivation that will partially counteract 
 this unfavorable condition. If it is too wet we also have means of 
 counteracting this in part. While we are not completely, we are to some 
 extent independent of conditions that formerly were very hurtful to the 
 farmer. I look forward to the great industry of agriculture in the state 
 of Ohio to improve year by year for many years to come. 
 
 One of the great disiderata, of course, is soil fertility. It has been 
 said that the strength of America rests fundamentally upon agricul- 
 ture, and that agriculture rests absolutely upon the fertility of the soil. 
 We must maintain soil fertility; we must keep that constantly in mind. 
 It is not enough to have good drainage, thorough cultivation and rotation 
 of crops; because we are taking away fertility and we must return 
 something; we must see that the elements that are taken from the soil 
 by production are at least partially restored to it. We should know the 
 quality of our soil to judge whether we need a complete fertilizer or a 
 fertilizer which contains only the elements our soil requires. If we know 
 this we can save a large amount of money that would be wasted if we 
 ‘nvested in a commercial fertilizer that is not adapted to our soil. We 
 know that the necessary experiments have been made and the needs of 
 the different kinds of soil pointed out in a scientific way. We have one 
 of the best Experiment Stations there is in the United States (applause), 
 and it is so recognized,.as I had the opportunity of knowing while a 
 member of the United States Industrial Commission. It is so recognized 
 by the Department of Agriculture; and we must not permit it to drop 
 behind or to lag in the great work that Congress is expecting of it and 
 that the people of the state of Ohio are expecting of it. Its work must 
 eo on, and this scientific research must continue until it reaches a higher 
 degree of perfection than it has as yet achieved, although it stands very 
 high. (Applause). 
 
 [ want to say a word in regard to our farmers’ institutes. There 
 probably has been no one thing that has contributed more to agricultural 
 prosperity in the state of Ohio than the yearly meetings of our farmers’ 
 ‘nstitutes, and the’ work of the state lecturers. We have not enough of 
 them, yet we have all that the money now provided will warrant. I 
 believe we should have more money, and that we should have more. 
 frequent institutes. Wherever I have heard the matter discussed, there 
 has been uniform testimony in favor of them and their great benefits to 
 agriculture in every locality. And why not? Twenty-five to thirty-five 
 lecturers are sent out, each prepared to deliver an address upon ten or 
 fifteen different subjects, and the local Society can choose from among 
 these which they prefer to have discussed. Then there is in addition, the 
 local talent that is invited to participate. Every farmers’ institute held 
 in the. state of Ohio is worth a great deal more money than it costs. 
 Something is always said that finds a lodgment in the minds of our pro- 
 eressive farmers; and when the progressive farmer gets it and intro- 
 
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 «duces it in his practice his neighbors follow suit, and its effect is like 
 -a pebble cast upon still water; it spreads out and out and it is hard to 
 -estimate the great amount of good that comes from it. All this, of 
 course, is along the line of bettering agricultural conditions. 
 
 So'far as the state of Ohio is concerned, we can be assured that the 
 Legislature has always been willing to help along this work in every way 
 that is necessary; and it always will be willing to help as long as the 
 farmers themselves show an interest ; and the money appropriated goes 
 
 “to the benefit of the farmer. 
 
 I do not know that I need say anything more. I have merely called 
 -attention to these facts, not for the purpose of discussing them in detail, 
 ‘but merely to show you how the farmers are appreciating what is being 
 -done. 
 
 I want to say another thing, and that is, with better farming and 
 ‘more thorough cultivation we are building better homes, wearing better 
 -clothes, enjoying more of the pleasures of life and have larger bank ac- 
 -counts. ' 
 
 And where is the industry that is entitled to more rewards than the 
 industry of agriculture? (Applause). 
 
 I might say a word in regard to the work our State University is 
 -doing along the line of education. I would advise every young farmer to 
 take the four year course in agriculture, if he can. If he is not able 
 to take the four year course, then take the two year course, if possible; 
 and if he can take neither the four year course nor the two year course, 
 he, as well as the older farmer, would be benefited by coming to Columbus 
 _and taking the ten weeks or winter term course. (Applause). He would 
 obtain much practical knowledge and could work along scientific lines 
 better if he had the education that is afforded to him free by the state, 
 except his own living expenses. 
 
 Speaking again of the fertility of the soil, I wish to add that we do 
 not care enough for the fertilizer we make or can make upon the farm. 
 Barnyard manure is a complete fertilizer, and we should not fail to save 
 
 -every pound of it that is possible. (Applause.) We should not allow it 
 to leach out in the barn lot if we can help it. We ought to have covered 
 barnyards. Right here I am going to plead poverty, for I have not a 
 good covered barnyard; but I appreciate its importance. Some of my 
 neighbors have made better provisions in that way than I have, and I 
 can see the good effect of their covered barnyards in the husbanding of 
 the fertilizer that is made there and taken out on the fields without loss. 
 We must all come to this. We know that we must preserve the fertility 
 of our soil by husbanding what we have at our command and not buy 
 too much commercial fertilizer. (Applause). Barnyard manure is a 
 complete fertilizer and in addition to the elements that we may find in 
 commercial fertilizer it contains the humus that clay soils especially need. 
 
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 Now, I have talked longer than I intended to talk. 1 am sorry that 
 I am not better prepared; but I have the satisfaction of knowing, for 
 your committee told me, that if I didn’t make much of a speech they 
 knew the President of the Society would make a good one. (Applause 
 and laughter). 
 
 I thank you, gentlemen, for this courtesy. (Applause. ) 
 
 * * * * 
 
 PRESIDENT SANDLES: Gentlemen, the Governor has made such an 
 excellent address, that I think we ought to mark him 100% with a plus 
 mark after it. It was practical and full of common sense. It had all the 
 ear marks of the successful farmer and was indeed appropriate on this 
 occasion. Really, Governor, I would like to see you make application 
 to go on the force, as a Lecturer at our Farmers’ Institutes. I feel sure 
 you can get enough votes in our Board to elect you. (Laughter and ap- 
 plause. ) ; 
 
ADDRESS OF 
 
 HON A; P-SANDELES, 
 
 President Ohio State Board of Agriculture, 1906 
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ADORE Or HON, A: P, SANDLES. 
 
 The cause of Agriculture has the right of way in the world today. 
 A white block and a clear track ahead are the tokens: which permit this 
 Goddess of the soil to pass by the petty towns of political strife, and 
 reach, in safety, that Grand Central Station, known to the. world as 
 “National Prosperity.”’ 
 
 Down the great highway, which leads from seed-time to harvest, 
 she follows the steel rails of toil and sweat. The iron wheels of science 
 and progress carry her forward with a force that is irresistible. The 
 motive power is brawn and brain. 
 
 He who would wreck or delay her passage would bring a blight upon 
 his nation. The red lights gleaming in her wake, are ominous danger 
 signals, hung out to warn thosé who would retard or injure the Goddess 
 of Agriculture in her onward trend. 
 
 Our lawmakers acted wisely and well, when they wrote upon the 
 statute books, that-once each year, the Ohio State Board of Agriculture 
 should invite the citizens of the State to meet with it and discuss ways 
 and means of promoting the cause of Agriculture. To discover, if pos- 
 sible, how best results can be obtained. How to secure the greatest 
 reward for our labor. How to increase the yield and decrease the cost 
 of production. How to feed our live stock and improve the breeds. How 
 to save the fertile fields from becoming a barren soil. How to make 
 ‘Agriculture more nearly a science, our homes more beautiful, our people 
 happier and the grandeur of our country more. enduring. ; 
 
 By doing and pursuing this great work, we impose upon posterity 
 an obligation and a debt of gratitude which it can discharge only by 
 emulating our good example. 
 
 Geritlemen, the citizens of a state never met in a more worthy cause, 
 or to discharge a more important duty, than you do today. It is para- 
 mount and imperative. 
 
 AGRICULTURE AS A TEACHER. 
 
 Material man comes from and returns to mother earth, which is also 
 the store house, that supplies all the necessities to feed him when he is 
 hungry and warm him when he is cold. Earth and nature furnish to the 
 human mind the strongest demonstrations of the existence and power of 
 
 -a-Divine Providence. When, with invisible brush, that skillful unseen 
 hand puts the red in the cherry, the gold in the pumpkin, the blush on 
 
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 the peach and the bloom in the blossom, it writes the message and proves 
 the reign of the Ruler above. 
 
 “He who plants the seed beneath the sod, 
 
 And waits to see it turn away the clod, 
 Believes in God,” his country and his fellowman. 
 He who holds the plow and 
 
 “Sees beneath the winter’s field of snow, 
 
 The silent harvest of the future grow,” 
 
 has no agnostic turn of mind, no.skeptic heart, no unbelief. He who 
 holds and echoes doubtful dogma is not often found within the fold of 
 those who till the soil and receive reward at golden harvest time. 
 
 Upon this happy occasion we meet and greet as workers in a 
 common cause. Let the right hand of good fellowship be an introduction 
 each to the other. You come from every part of this great Common- 
 wealth, and I am sure that abiding within your breast is the steadfast 
 belief, that your county is better than all the rest, and that your home 
 is the best place in all the world in which to live. This unwavering 
 loyalty, to home and county, help to make Ohio grand and great. This 
 is why we love so well our good old “Buckeye State.” 
 
 OHIO. 
 
 “The sun never shone on a country more fair 
 Than beautiful, peerless Ohio. 
 
 There’s life in a kiss of her rarified air, 
 Ohio, prolific Ohio. 
 
 Her sons are valiant and noble and bright; 
 
 Her beautiful daughters are just about right; 
 
 And her babies, God bless them, are clear out of sight — 
 That crop never fails in Ohio, 
 
 “When the burden of life I am called to lay down, 
 
 [ hope I may die in Ohio; 
 I never could ask a more glorious crown 
 
 Than one of the sod of Ohio. “ 
 And when the last trump wakes the land and the sea 
 And the tombs of the earth set their prisoners free, 
 You may all go aloft, if you choose, but for me 
 
 I think I’ll just stay in Ohio.” 
 
 WELCOME. 
 
 To this meeting, from other states, come those whose zeal in this 
 great work is equal to our own. You, my friends, have traveled far. 
 You bring a good message and we shall profit by your presence. We 
 hail you a$ our brothers, and accept you as our welcome guests. We 
 grant that you have the same loyal feeling for your state that we have 
 for our own. We shall take no offense if you want to sing the praises 
 of the state from whence you came. 
 
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 It is this sublime faith of all our people, in all our states, that makes 
 this country of ours the freest and the best. This supreme love of 
 country is why “Uncle Sam” is loved by his eighty millions of people and 
 respected by the rest of the world. That is why the folds of “Old Glory” 
 will continue to ripple and wave in the breezes of God forever. 
 
 Give to a man a home and a garden or a farm and he will defend 
 them. 
 
 My friends, do you know that the avocation of agriculture inspires 
 belief in Divinity, helps the cause of Christianity, intensifies love of 
 country, and makes men who will fight upon the battlefields of their 
 country? And in times gone by when this nation was assailed by foe of 
 any kind, the farmer boys let the plow stand in the furrow until that foe 
 was vanquished. They always have. They always will. Since the days 
 of Lexington their battle cry has been: ; 
 
 “Red, White and Blue ; i 
 We are for you.” 
 
 HON.: W. W. MILLER. 
 
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 The Ohio State Board of Agriculture finishes today, the most pros- 
 perous and successful year of its existence. Nothing it had to do has 
 been left undone. The work and results in every department have been 
 gratifying. Harmony and good will prevail. 
 
 And were it not that we remember, that within the year, death did 
 cross our threshold twice, we would upon this occasion rejoice and 
 exult without restraint. Soon or late the shadows of death are sure to 
 fall, the mourners go about the streets, and friends perform the last sad 
 rites for their dead. 
 
 On April 8th, it pleased Divine Providence to call from this to 
 another and better world, our honorable Secretary, Wells W. Miller. 
 He was struck down ere yet his useful life had reached its summit. In 
 this event we see again a demonstration of the fact that “Death loves 
 a shining mark.”’ | 
 
 Mr. Miller’s worth and fame rose above and beyond political creeds 
 and partyism, and rested safely and surely upon the broad plane of 
 patriotic manhood, and years of service which blessed mankind. 
 
 His life and energies were devoted to the cause of agriculture. He 
 labored to promote the welfare of those who till the soil. He exalted 
 the occupation of those who plow and farm the earth. His loss we mourn. 
 His memory we revere. His going away caused deep regret and sadness 
 in many hearts. We join the Poet Laureate in saying, 
 
 “Oh, for the touch of a vanished hand, 
 And the sound of a voice that is still.” 
 
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 The Fates were kind to him. It was while on a visit to the old 
 farm that the final summons came. And there amid the scenes and sur- 
 roundings of his boyhood days he bade adieu to his loved ones and 
 passed into the Great Beyond, from whose bourne no traveler ever 
 
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 eS: His work well done, 
 
 His race well run, 
 His crown well won. 
 
 SECRETARY CALVERT. 
 
 To take up the work where Mr. Miller had laid it down was no 
 easy task. The many details of the different departments, the extensive 
 scope of the work covered by the Board, were sure to make the burden 
 a heavy one. It was highly important that no mistake should be made 
 in selecting a successor to one who had acquitted himself so well. 
 
 The services of Mr. T. L. Calvert as member of the Board for a 
 number of years had made him somewhat familiar with the duties im- 
 posed upon a Secretary. His ability, splendid character, and eminent 
 social qualities had won for him the confidence and respect of all his 
 fellow members, who recognized his fitness for the place. During the 
 brief time in which he has conducted the affairs of the office, he has 
 demonstrated the wisdom of our choice. 
 
 HON, R. O. HINSDALE. 
 
 On August 25th, the wires flashed the unwelcome news that death 
 had again invaded our official household. Hon. R. O. Hinsdale was 
 no more. His loss was keenly felt. We had learned to love him for 
 his genial, social qualities and to rely upon his mature judgment in our 
 deliberations and conclusions as a Board. To faithfully discharge his. 
 duty as a public official and a private citizen was the thought always 
 uppermost in his mind. The cause of agriculture never had a more 
 ardent, sincere advocate than he. His life was an open book and his 
 character above reproach. When he sank into the grave he had the 
 respect of all who had learned to know him. When his friends gathered, 
 at his beautiful country home, to attend his funeral, they were heard to 
 say of him “He was a good neighbor and an honest man.” 
 
 My friends, I would rather deserve to have that epitaph inscribed 
 upon my gravestone, than to be the possessor ‘of great riches or the mon- 
 arch of a province. For on Judgment Day, when my trembling soul shall 
 stand naked and alone, before the Great White Throne of Him who 
 sitteth as Judge Supreme, that kind of an epitaph would count more 
 for me than would all the gold and glory which this world can give. 
 
 PROGRESS OF AGRICULTURE, 
 
 Evidences on every hand proclaim the progress of agriculture and 
 the farmer, and the vital importance of his work. I doubt not that ere 
 
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 the twentieth century has half run its race, his calling will be envied; 
 his land doubled in value; and he will have assumed that high station 
 among men which is rightfully his. The time will soon arrive when his 
 needs and his interests shall be considered first, and his just demands 
 be moulded into law. 
 
 The day is here when the world must respect him who produces 
 the necessaries of life. Those who engage in agriculture and its kindred 
 interests should not bend the knee to the spurious statesman and cheap 
 politician whom they feed; those who produce ought not to be obliged 
 to beg favors of those, who only consume. The farmer should not 
 beg for his just due. He should put on his armor and fight, and see 
 that defeat and political disaster overtake those who would deny his 
 just claims, or seek to make him subservient to any man or set of men. 
 
 TAXES. 
 
 The farmer can have as much justice as he will demand. He will 
 have as much injustice as he will stand. The tax collector will continue 
 to take from him more of the fruits of his labor than he takes from 
 special and favored interests, just so long as the farmer neglects to put 
 out of business and out of office, those rascals and imposters, who secretly 
 and corruptly continue to serve greedy and grasping corporations, after 
 they have taken a’ sacred oath to serve the people and be their friend. 
 
 Computing the amount actually invested, the farm pays more on the 
 dollar in taxes than any other class of property. From taxes the farmer 
 has no escape. Taxes are worse than death, which comes only once, 
 while taxes come twice each year. He is almost as unfortunate in this 
 respect as the Western gentleman: 
 
 Whose horse went dead and his mule went lame, 
 And he lost his cows in a poker game; 
 
 Then a hurrycane came one summer day 
 
 And blowed the house where he lived away; 
 Then an earthquake came when that was gone, 
 And swallowed the ground the house stood on; 
 Then the tax colector he came round, 
 
 And charged him up with the hole in the ground. 
 
 The farmer does not object to taxes if he gets value received. He 
 wants a square deal in the collection and distribution of public funds. 
 
 THE THREE PICTURES. 
 
 Across the sea, on the banks of the picturesque and historic river 
 Rhine, stands a castle old and grim. Its architecture a reminder of other 
 times and other days. Around it cling the moss and ivy vines. Centuries 
 have come and gone since its foundation stones were laid. Within its 
 
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 walls have echoed many songs of mirth and joy and clinking nectar 
 goblets. On the walls of this old castle hang three pictures, each of 
 which tells a simple story. 
 
 The first is that of a soldier clad in the uniform of his country. 
 He holds a musket in his hands. Just below is written this inscription: 
 “T fight for all.”” We need the soldier. He laid the corner stone of our 
 nation. He preserved the union of the states. He is brave. We honor 
 and respect him. 
 
 The second picture is that of a Priest, arrayed in ministerial garb. 
 He holds in his hands the Holy Bible. Below is written: “I pray for all.” 
 We need the Bible, The Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments to 
 help us keep the way. 
 
 The third picture is that of a man at work in a field. He holds 
 in his hands a hoe. On his brow is the sweat of honest toil. Below is 
 written this cheering message: “I feed them all.” Who would not be 
 this toiler’s friend? Who would deny him the joys of a happy home? 
 Who could rob him of his rights and not have the curse of a guilty 
 conscience? Long ago Oliver Goldsmith truly wrote: 
 
 “Til fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 
 Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; 
 Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, — 
 A breath can make them as a breath has made; 
 But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride, 
 When once destroyed, can never be supplied.” 
 
 DEMANDS OF THE FUTURE. 
 
 It is estimated that in the year 1950 this country will be peopled 
 with two hundred millions of human beings. If they go hungry dire 
 results will follow. Two and one half times the food and clothing now 
 necessary will be needed then. Let us anticipate future conditions and 
 prepare to meet them. To solve these great problems, intelligntly, will 
 rquire the thought and talent of our best men. 
 
 Those who continue to discover how to make one bushel of corn 
 grow where that much never grew before, and how to raise one bushel 
 of wheat upon less ground next year than it required this year, will do 
 much for those who live after us. With the demands of the future 
 before us, it is proper that adequate financial support be given to the 
 forces now organized to carry forward the work of research and_ in- 
 vestigation in the agricultural world. 
 
 ORGANIZED FORCES, 
 
 It is cause for congratulation that we note the growing interest 
 in these important questions. Our people are aroused and see the need 
 of action and co-operation alone these lines. Mighty forces have been 
 
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 set in motion. Marvelous results are obtained because of the work of 
 the Experiment Station, the Agricultural College, the Farmers’ Insti- 
 tute, The Fairs and Expositions, and the Breeders’ Convention. Last, 
 but not least in importance, is the Agricultural Press, which carries to 
 the rural home the message from the Experiment Station and all the 
 other organizations above mentioned. It disseminates beneficial and use- 
 ful information to those who need and appreciate its great value. The 
 cost is so insignificant and the benefits so great, that no farmer should 
 deny himself the advantages afforded by them. 
 
 A SIGNIFICANT FACT. 
 
 Is it not a significant fact that the crop yield of 1906, was greater 
 than ever before? We have been blessed with good seasons in the past. 
 The sunshine and the rain of 1906, was not greatly different from that 
 of other years. We toiled not many hours longer, yet the harvest was 
 more generous and prosperity more abundant. I do not hesitate to 
 affirm that, at least.a part of this added yield, should be credited to the 
 enlightened condition of the producer, who has kept in touch with these 
 forces which drive back the darkness and beckon us on. 
 
 OHIO’S GREATEST VICTORY. 
 
 In 1906 the average yield of wheat, per acre, in Ohio was 20.9 
 bushels, and that of corn 43.5 bushels. Both these averages were greater 
 than in any previous year. The average corn yield in Ohio was greater 
 than that of any other state in the Union. In peace and in war, Ohio 
 has won many victories and gained renown. But her victory of wheat 
 and corn in 1906 was as great as any she ever won. Prosperity smiles 
 when. granaries are full. She frowns when they are depleted. The 
 triumph of Agriculture, and it alone, will furnish the laden car, and 
 make the iron steeds of commerce go racing on. In yonder field, where 
 the farmer farms, is where the roots of commerce begin. In yonder 
 building where the fires are burning and the wheels are turning, wheat 
 is turned to flour, hide to leather, wool to fabric and ore to tempered 
 steel. There, in that busy hustling hive, amid machinery’s din and roar, 
 you will find the boundary line between Agriculture’s broad domain and 
 all the other fields of human toil. Vhen raw material ceases to be sup- 
 plied, there will be no prosperous cities anywhere. 
 
 OUR WORK. 
 
 The Ohio State Board of Agriculture is earnestly endeavoring to 
 contribute its full share to the advancement of the agricultural interests 
 of the state, and faithfully perform the duties which the law has imposed 
 
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 In order to review our year’s work and call attention to results ob- 
 tained I shall speak of, 
 
 Ist. The Ohio State Fair. 
 
 2nd.. Our County Fairs. 
 
 3rd. The Division of Nursery and Orchard Inspection. 
 
 4th. The Inspection of Commercial Fertilizers and Feed Stuffs. 
 
 5th. The Crop Reporting service. 
 
 6th. The Division of Horticulture. 
 
 7th. The Live Stock Commission. 
 
 8th. The Farmers’ Institute Work. 
 
 gth. Jamestown Exposition Exhibit. 
 
 10th. Improvements. 
 
 INSPECTION INVITED. 
 
 We are pleased to have this opportunity to give an account of our 
 stewardship. 
 
 We feel a pardonable pride at the results obtained in each of these 
 ten divisions of our work. 
 
 We invite your attention and inspection of all our methods and 
 official transactions. To serve you well has been our only purpose. 
 We hope our administration has been conducted in such manner as to 
 win your approval. 
 
 If you have criticism to make, do not hesitate to advise us. Per- 
 haps cur Board can profit by your suggestions, and better perform the 
 work which it has to do. ; 
 
 OHIO STATE FAIR. 
 
 The Ohio State Fair is an Exposition, but it was not always so. 
 
 The first State Fair was held in Cincinnati in 1850, with total re- 
 ceipts of $8,000. The receipts of the Fair of 1906 exceeded all previous 
 ones, amounting to $61,000. 
 
 The First Fair on present grounds was held in 1886, on ninety 
 acres of ground, but its marvelous growth necessitated the purchase of 
 an additional twenty-five acres, making one hundred and fifteen acres 
 now owned by the.state for this purpose. 
 
 _Che present accommodations are inadequate in many respects. In 
 the Machinery Department alone fifty applications were turned away. 
 In other departments would-be exhibitors could not get accommodations. 
 Every department was full and complete beyond that of other years. 
 [ take it for granted that this expansion indicates that our progressive 
 people are more fully realizing the great educational value of these an- 
 nual expositions. 
 
 Farmers, breeders, merchants, manufacturers, are more generally 
 taking this opportunity to show the results of their labor than ever be- 
 
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 fore. The intense interest of the exhibitor is not greater than that of 
 the citizens. This is clearly shown by the attendance last year, which 
 was the largest in the history of the Fair, and this, notwithstanding the 
 fact that all railroads for the first time refused any special rates or 
 service whatsoever. 
 
 THE NEWSPAPERS. 
 
 It is proper to mention some of the causes that produced this in- 
 creased exhibit and large attendance. 
 
 First, we confess our obligations to the newspapers of the state for 
 the very generous treatment accorded us when only small pecuniary 
 reward could be given in return. Their efficiency as an advertising 
 medium is beyond question. They come to the door, enter the home; 
 they hunt up the busy man while waiting for his meals to be served; 
 they discuss the merits of your business, which a bill-board or fence 
 poster can not do. The bill-board can not come to you with its message ; 
 on the contrary you must hunt for it and then leave it where you find it. 
 Its story seldom changes. 
 
 The home paper is always your friend and often your policeman. 
 It protects you against frauds and swindles; tells you where yau can 
 get the most for your money and who will pay you the highest price for 
 what you have to sell. 
 
 We regret that our capacity to reward you was limited, as your 
 services to the Fair were invaluable. 
 
 We recommend that County Fairs can not do a wiser thing than 
 to make liberal use of the county newspapers in advertising their merits. 
 
 COUNTY FAIR OFFICERS. 
 
 Second, we thank the County Fair officers’ who published in their 
 premium lists the announcement of the State Fair. 
 Every member of our Board appreciates this courtesy. 
 
 ASSISTANT SECRETARY FLEMING. 
 
 Due and full credit should be given to our Assistant Secretary, Mr. 
 James W. Fleming, whose duties pertain largely to the advertising and 
 details of the State Fair. His election as Assistant Secretary occurred 
 in April, 1906, and he is filling well the position so long held by his 
 father. 
 
 HON. SAM. HOUSTON. 
 
 An interesting feature of the Fair was the construction of a modern 
 roadway on the fair grounds under the personal supervision of Hon. 
 Sam Huston, Highway Commissioner of Ohio. The latest improved 
 machinery for road building was used. County Commissioners and 
 
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 Township Trustees received valuable information both from observa- 
 tion of the work and instructive lectures of Mr. Huston. 
 
 Intelligent road building is a subject which should excite the in- 
 terest of every tax-payer in Ohio. 
 
 Lectures by competent persons in several departments, while a new 
 feature, proved highly satisfactory, and will no doubt be continued, as 
 they should be. 
 
 MILKING MACHINE. 
 
 Professor Decker, of the Ohio State University, with his milking 
 machine in operation, claimed the attention of everybody, especially the 
 dairymen. The ease with which this machine could milk two cows at 
 the same time caused many to remark that they would have hailed with 
 delight such an accomodating affair in their boyhood days. Prof. Decker 
 contributed his full share to the success of the Fair. 
 
 EXPERIMENT STATION. 
 
 The Board of Control of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
 tion made a magnificent display of the work that is being carried on 
 at Wooster. Director Thorne and his able corps of assistants had so 
 systematically and artistically arranged the exhibit that it. was an easy 
 matter to gather much valuable information from it in a short time. 
 The continual throng of interested persons who inspected it was convinc- 
 ing evidence that our people are becoming interested in scientific agri- 
 culture. It is well to promote and encourage research in this direction. 
 The investment will return many fold. The bulletins of the Station will 
 be mailed free of charge to all who ask for them. 
 
 PRESIDENT M’KINLEY. 
 
 Upon the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition, President Mc— 
 Kinley made his last and greatest speech. Among other things, he said: 
 
 “Expositions are the time-keepers of progress. They record 
 the world’s advancement. They stimulate the energy, enter- 
 prise and intellect of people and quicken human genius. They 
 go into the home. They broaden and brighten the daily life 
 of the people. They open mighty store-houses of information 
 to the student. 
 
 “Every exposition, great or small, has helped to some on- 
 ward step. Comparison of ideas is always educational, and as 
 such instructs the brain and hand of man. 
 
 “Friendly rivalry follows, which is the spur to industrial 
 improvement, the inspiration to useful invention and to high 
 endeavor in all departments of human activity. It exacts a study 
 
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 of the wants, comforts, and even the-whims of the people and 
 recognizes the efficicacy of high quality and low process to win 
 their favor.” 
 
 President McKinley also said: 
 
 “Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy 
 and antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the 
 business methods of long ago, and the twentieth would be no 
 further advanced than the eighteenth century. 
 
 “The wisdom and energy of all the nations are none too 
 great for the world’s work. The success of art, science, industry 
 cand invention is an international asset and common glory. After 
 all, how near one to the other is every part of the world. 
 Modern inventions have brought into close relation widely 
 separated people, and made them better acquainted. Geographic 
 and political division will continue to exist, but distances have 
 been effaced.” 
 
 If, as President McKinley said, that competition and friendly rivalry 
 have brought us as a nation thus far, they will bear us onward still. 
 
 OHIO NOT AT THE FOOT OF THE CLASS. 
 
 Ohio’s annual exposition is unrivalled. Her sons do not fear to 
 meet and combat competition. The sturdy Buckeye does not fear any- 
 thing. In 1898, when President McKinley called for volunteers to drive 
 the Spaniard from the Island of Cuba and forever terminate his tyran- 
 nical rule in the western world, Ohio was first to answer that her quota 
 was full. Ohio is never at the foot of the class. 
 
 No person loyal to Ohio could stand in the center of Agricultural 
 Hall, at the last State Fair, and behold the wonderful array of the pro- 
 ducts of the soil, there displayed, without having born in him the con- 
 viction that none but a great state could produce such an exhibit. 
 
 My friends, it seems to me that I would rather entrust the destinies 
 of my country in the hands of those who sow and reap than to those who, 
 in some secluded chamber, levy tribute upon all human kind, and, for the 
 love and greed of gold, would make more cold and hungry the countless, 
 helpless poor. I know who would best defend the flag. I know who 
 first would volunteer. 
 
 BATTLE OF THE BREEDS. 
 
 In the live stock show there was a mighty “Battle of the Breeds.” In 
 every show-ring there was waged a royal contest of blood and breeding. 
 Every animal was fit to be a King among its kind. Wherever you find 
 a good animal there you also find a man. A first class animal seldom 
 
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 has a second class owner. Show me the animal that scores eighty and 
 ten and I will show you a man who scores ninety and ten. J believe, as 
 surely as day follows night, that when we improve the animal and wmprove 
 the plant, we also wnprove the race. 
 
 OUR COUNTY FAIRS. 
 
 Reports filed by the county fairs show the past year to have been 
 generally prosperous. Ohio has more fairs than any other state. I am 
 not sure but this helps to keep Ohio near the head of the class. 
 
 As stated by a newspaper in a recent issue, the Ohio fairs are 
 managed by men of honor and ability, and not in many years has there 
 been an instance of breach of trust on the part of County Fair officials. 
 You are to be congratulated upon receiving and deserving this compli- 
 ment. 
 
 3esides having all the benefits, which ] have enumerated, as derived 
 from the state fair, the local fair has the strong social feature added. 
 
 The county fair will be held in high favor so long as old friends 
 love to meet and greet and tell to each other the joys and woes of a 
 passing year. ; 
 
 The mystic, invisible chord of friendship, which runs from one heart 
 to a thousand others, is the secret power which draws the young and 
 old, the rich and poor, together in one grand reunion under the shade 
 of the spreading trees, which grow upon the grounds of “The Old County 
 Fair.”’ 
 
 When you clasp again the hands of those you knew when you were 
 boys and girls and sweethearts together, it will drive dull care away and 
 the songs of the birds will be sweeter, the burdens of life be lighter, 
 the ties of true friendship be stronger, the cream on the milk will be 
 thicker, and the roses and lilies more fair. 
 
 It is the place where youth and maid exterminate roasted peanuts 
 and red lemonade, and joyously wander, hand in hand, through the 
 gardens and fields of the future, knowing little, caring less, of the world 
 and its woes. The plains to be crossed, the mountains to be climbed, 
 the seas to be sailed and the harvest to be gathered, give them no con- 
 cern. It’s a clear sky and is yet only life’s morning. 
 
 It's the time and place for father and mother to rest and refresh: 
 time to pause in life’s struggle and forget all about gold; time to stop 
 for a day, the plow that is turning the furrows of time. “The heart of 
 the toilor has throbbings that stir not the bosom of kings” if you stop 
 now and then for a day, to mingle and mix with your fellows. 
 
 Perhaps it was there that grandfather first met and smiled at grand- 
 mother. You know the rest. There is a tide in the affairs of men, which 
 taken at the flood, leads on to marriage, a happy home, and prattling 
 childhood. A hearthstone, a rocking cradle, a mother’s lullaby song and. 
 a father’s strong right arm, keep the world amoving on. 
 
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 There is no place on the outside of God’s green earth where two. 
 hearts are more sure to beat as one, than at the County Fair. 
 
 Don’t you remember the day when God made the sun shine the 
 brightest, a quiet place, a pair of trusting eyes, a hand in yours and two 
 heads close together? This great big round world only had two people 
 in it then — YOU WERE ONE AND SHE THE OTHER. And the words she 
 said were the words you wanted to hear—and the promise was made. 
 
 The whole thing started about fair time, didn’t it? Hada good fair 
 that day, of course, long time ago. No doubt the sun doesn’t shine now 
 as it did then; perhaps that quiet place would be hard to find; perhaps 
 those eyes have closed in eternal sleep; that hand may have vanished 
 and be cold; that voice may be stilled in death; but the memory of that 
 day and that place, and that old sweetheart, is planted in your heart 
 forever. And were the whole world yours you would give it all, old man, 
 to go right back there now. 
 
 THE DIVISION OF NURSERY AND ORCHARD INSPECTION. 
 
 The Division of Nursery and Orchard Inspection has been conducted 
 on the same lines of work as in the past. The number of nurseries in- 
 spected is increasing each year and the amount of time to be devoted to 
 inspection and fumigation for stock is much greater than in the past. 
 
 During the fall packing season — from September 15th to December 
 Ist — over three million trees, shrubs, plants and vines were fumigated 
 under the supervision of assistants from this Division. A large number 
 of orchards have been inspected and investigations of outbreaks of 
 dangerous orchard pests have enabled the owners to apply proper and 
 timely treatment. 
 
 Numerous papers and reports have been presented by the Chief 
 Inspector to Agricultural, Horticultural and other meetings, and two 
 bulletins are now in press. 
 
 The correspondence is increasing and frequent calls are received for 
 addresses and information concerning the control of nursery and orchard 
 pests. Those persons having affected trees should write at once to this 
 department for instructions. No charge is made. 
 
 THR INSPECTION OF COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS AND COMMERCIAL FEED 
 STUFFS. 
 This division is growing rapidly, involving a great amount. of careful 
 work on the part of the Secretary. Four Deputy Inspectors cover the 
 state gathering samples. 
 
 THE CROP REPORTING SERVICE. 
 
 The compilation and publication of monthly crop and live stock 
 reports, as sent to the office by the fifteen hundred crop correspondents 
 throughout Ohio, requires an office force and much labor. 
 
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 During the last State Fair these correspondents held a meeting and 
 perfected an organization for the purpose of securing uniformity in mak- 
 ing their reports. 
 
 The annual meetings will be held during the State Fairs. Every 
 crop reporter should attend. An excellent program will be arranged. 
 
 DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE. 
 
 During the past year, the Division of Horticulture was established 
 in the Department of Agriculture. 
 
 The Legislature appropriated the sum of fifteen hundred dollars 
 for the maintenance of this Division. Mr. W. W. Farnsworth was 
 placed in charge of this work, at a salary of eight hundred dollars per 
 year. This work should receive more attention than heretofore given it. 
 
 Unless something is accomplished along these lines, our fruit and 
 ornamental trees will fall a prey to the San Jose scale. It_is time to 
 awake. The work of this Division is along the same lines as that of the 
 Nursery and Orchard Inspection. 
 
 THE STATE BOARD OF LIVE STOCK COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 The Legislature of 1902 passed an act which constituted the State 
 Board of Agricultue the Board of Live Stock Commissioners. Since this 
 time the work has been in charge of Dr. Paul Fischer, as State Vet- 
 erinarian. 
 
 The annual appropriation for this new Board was three thousand 
 dollars. This was thought to be ample for its needs. The demand for 
 the services of the Board increased with every year, and in 1906 the 
 annual appropriations were increased to five thousand dollars, besides 
 liberal appropriations to pay claims for compensations for animals de- 
 stroyed by the Board to prevent the spread of certain dangerous, con- 
 tagious diseases — glanders, tuberculosis and rabies. 
 
 The principal diseases causing considerable losses to the live stock 
 industry of our state are hog cholera, tuberculosis, glanders, scab of sheep 
 and rabbies or hydrophobia, 
 
 HOG CHOLERA. 
 
 Hog cholera and hydrophobia cause losses running into the hundreds 
 of thousands annually. The greater part of these losses could be effec- 
 tually prevented by the enforcement of the necessary regulations for their 
 control and suppression. 
 
 SCABIES IN SHEEP. 
 
 At the present time the Board enforces rigid regulations for the 
 control of scabies in sheep, prohibiting the shipment of infected animals 
 into or through the state and compelling the dipping of all infected 
 animals. Similar regulations are enforced for the prevention of Southern 
 
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 cattle fever, with the result that a disease which in former vears caused 
 the loss of thousands of cattle, is at the present time practically unknown 
 in this state. 
 
 TUBERCULOSIS. 
 
 The Board encourages dairymen to rid their herds of tuberculosis 
 by testing suspected herds free of expense to the owner, advising and 
 directing the disinfection of premises on which infected cattle are found, 
 and ordering the destruction or quarantine of infected cattle. The state 
 law provides for a certain compensation to the owners of all animals 
 destroyed by the Board, when this is done to prevent the further spread 
 of an infectious disease. 
 
 However, the funds of the Board — which are comparatively limited 
 —are used principally in the control of a few of the most dangerous 
 diseases, the nature of which permits the most effective work with the 
 machinery at the disposal of the Board. This applies particularly to 
 glanders in horses, and scabies in sheep. The losses from these diseases 
 have been reduced almost to a minimum. 
 
 GLANDERS. 
 
 Glanders appeared in twelve different counties of the state during 
 the year. The disease was limited to a very few animals in each county 
 and was usually traced to importations from other states. In only one 
 county had the disease made any considerable headway, namely, in 
 Montgomery county, but principally in the city of Dayton. This was 
 due to the fact that the local authorities failed to recognize the nature 
 of the disease when it first made its appearance. In spite of this, the 
 disease had spread to only a comparatively few animals. About eighty- 
 three animals, (horses) have, to this date, been found affected. Doubt- 
 less other infected animals will be found, but if the rigid methods em- 
 ployed by the Board in the past are carried out to the end, the total ex- 
 termination of the disease in the city of Dayton, and its perfect control 
 within the state, can be assured. 
 
 _ In regard to the work of the Board in general, however, in order 
 to conduct this in a manner at all comparable with the inportance of the 
 live stock interests of our great state, larger funds than have heretofore 
 been at the disposal of the Board, must be made available. $50,000.00: 
 to $100,000.00 annually, would be none too much for this work, and less 
 than is expended in other states with live stock interests not nearly as 
 large as ours. 
 
 Then such diseases as hog cholera, hydrophobia, and others which 
 now cause enormous losses, could be successfully suppressed and in some 
 cases even permanently exterminated. 
 
 The Board has two vegeterinarians in its permanent employ, and at 
 
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 one time during the past year employed as many as twelve men. This 
 was at the time when glanders was discovered in Dayton. 
 
 The funds for this work were promptly provided by the state 
 Emergency Board, which thus gave its official recognition to the impor- 
 tance of the work of the Board of Live Stock Commissioners. Persons 
 having afflicted animals should write to this department at once for in- 
 structions and advice, which are given free of charge. 
 
 THE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION EXHIBIT. 
 
 Upon urgent request of the Ohio Jamestown Exposition Commis- 
 sion, appointed by Governor Pattison, our Board will collect and have 
 charge of the agricultural and horticultural exhibits to be made by Ohio 
 at the Jamestown Exposition, this year. 
 
 The Commission allows $7,500.00 for this purpose. One thousand 
 dollars has been expended and much material collected. Virginia has 
 extended to our state, a special invitation to assist in making this Expo- 
 sition a success. Ohio should respond. The ground whereon we stand 
 was once Virginia. Our Mother State is asking for her daughter’s 
 helping hand. When the war for independence had been won, Virginia 
 owned this great North-West Territory. Then came the days and months 
 of struggle in the Constitutional Convention, and when it seemed that 
 the states could not agree and that no union could be formed, it was the 
 loyal sons of Old Virginia who came forward and nobly said: ‘Rather 
 than to see our cause fail at this time, we will give our western lands to 
 the general government.” And they did. The constitution was made 
 and adopted and it binds together a mighty nation still. 
 
 THE CRADLE OF AGRICULTURE. 
 
 This coming event will celebrate the founding of the first English 
 settlement in the western hemisphere. It was in 1492, that Christopher 
 Columbus, while hunting for the back door of Asia, found the front door 
 of America. For more than a hundred years the adventurers of the Old 
 World roamed the New, in search of gold and “Fountains of Youth.” 
 They roamed and searched in vain. Not until 1607, when those sturdy 
 people with fearless souls, sailed up thé river James and started to culti- 
 vate the soil, did civilization take root in this country. From the moment 
 the first sod was turned and the first seed was sown, the face of this 
 continent began to change. The hearth-stone took the place of the 
 wandering Indian’s wigwam. And where the lonely Red Man once 
 kindled his evening fire, there grew the acre of golden grain. This 
 nation was born in the cradle of agriculture. Virginia not only rocked 
 the cradle, but she gave us Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe. 
 The Father, The Declaration, The Constitution, and The “Doctrine” that 
 makes Kings and Emperors stay away. 
 
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 YORKTONW AND APPOMATTOX. 
 
 Virginia also gave those two battlefields, known to history as York- 
 town and Appomattox. In that great strife of civil war, it was a son of 
 Ohio and a son of Virginia who led the hosts in battle. And when the for- 
 tunes of war had been determined, and the heroes met ‘‘Under the shade of 
 that Old Apple Tree,” it was General Grant who told General Lee, that he 
 might keep his Southern sword, Caesar, Wellington, Napoleon, Bismarck 
 and all the other warriors known to fame would have taken that gallant 
 blade and hung it on the walls for their posterity. But Grant was great 
 enough and big enough to be magnanimous in his hour of triumph. Class 
 mates at West Point, comrades in the Mexican war, the terms of surrender 
 were tempered by the memory of other days. Grant’s simple act was 
 the noblest, tenderest, truest tribute Ohio can ever pay to the worth and 
 services of Virginia. Let no ‘“Buckeve” fail to pay homage to “The 
 Old Dominion” in 1907. 
 
 FARMERS INSTITUTES. 
 
 Perhaps the most important and far reaching work which comes 
 under the supervision of our Board is that of the Farmers’ Institutes. 
 
 Under the law of 1906, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, for 
 each county is provided for this work. One half of which goes to in- 
 stitute officers to defray local expenses. The balance pays the salary 
 and expense of state speakers. 
 
 Each county may have four meetings, if application is made in time. 
 No institute can receive more than $31.25. Forty Lecturers are em- 
 ployed. They are giving their best efforts to the work. All are enthus- 
 lastic. Every man on the force appreciates the necessity of keeping 
 abreast of the times. The farmers are pressing close behind. Woe be 
 unto him who stops to tie his shoe-string. Reports received indicate that 
 meetings are well attended, and that the speakers, with very few excep- 
 tions, are practical, pleasing, and satisfactory. Ohio leads in this work. 
 Every county in Ohio should have its four meetings. Local institute off- 
 cers are asked to take an interest in the work of the Ohio State Board of 
 Agriculture. Our Board would be pleased to have you all meet and 
 organize an Association during the next State Fair similar to that of the 
 Crop Reporters. 
 
 IMPROVEMENTS. 
 
 Each year the work of improving and beautifying our magnificent 
 grounds progresses. Every structure erected is of a substantial nature 
 ‘and will stand the test of time. The Legislature appropriated the sum of 
 $50,000.00 for the purpose of building a New Grand Stand. The con- 
 tract for same has been let. It will be ready to accomodate the patrons 
 of the fair of 1907. It will be constructed out of concrete and iron and 
 
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 absolutely fire proof. It will excel all others. It is gratifying to note 
 that ten other state fairs have sent representatives to Columbus to view 
 our buildings and get copies of our plans for new buildings of their own. 
 We hope in the near future to have covered walks connecting all the 
 departments so that our visitors need not be inconvenienced by bad 
 weather. A new and commodious Woman's building is almost a neces- 
 sity. Our thanks are due to the members of the Legislature for their 
 generous support of this State Institution. 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 My friends, permit me to say in closing, that I believe the “Golden: 
 Age” is yet to come, and that the “Good Old Days” are on the way. They 
 are not passed or gone. It costs more to live today than ever before — 
 but it’s worth more. The fruits, the traditions, the inspirations and the 
 lessons of all the centuries are standing on our door-step now. Not with 
 a wedge of gold can you pry open the books of the past and find a page 
 therein which tells of brighter, happier days than these. 
 
 RATHER SEE SANTA CLAUS THAN SEE A KING. 
 
 The good in the world outweighs the bad, and joys outnumber woes. 
 Today is better than yesterday; tomorrow better than today. More 
 Christians and fewer Pagans at coming twilight than at this morning’s 
 dawn. I believe in the joys and hopes of happy Yuletide days. I would 
 rather have one short glimpse at Santa Claus than to gaze for an hour 
 upon a titled King. I would rather have the love, and win the smile of 
 a little child than to court the grace of aristocracy. I would rather take 
 one flower to the room of a sick friend, than to cast a dozen upon his 
 coffin, when he is dead. I like to give the best I have, and to look for 
 the best there is in others. I love to think of the humble cabin home, 
 under whose roof I used to sleep so well when the day was done. 
 
 NATION'S HOPE AND ANCHOR, 
 
 Our boyhood memories fonder grow as the years go fleeting by. 
 How often, oh how often, comes the wish that mother’s smi s might 
 never fade away. The farm, the ‘Home Sweet Home,” the lov ag wife, 
 the romping, prattling children are the nation’s hope and anchor. 
 
 I believe the faith, the patriotism, and the hopes, of which I have 
 spoken, abide with the dwellers upon the farm. I trust ’twill be be so, 
 for all the years to come. May the golden sunlight of God’s favor shine 
 upon you from a cloudless sky. May well days and sound nights drive 
 away all aches and pains. May your wheat make good flour and good 
 bread. May your cows give good milk and make good butter. May good 
 cheer and sunshine bless your life and home for all time. I wish you well. 
 
 For your patience and attention, I thank you. 
 
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 Mr. GeorGce Scort, Jefferson County: I move you, Mr. Chariman, 
 that the addresses by-Governor Harris and yourself be published in 
 pamphlet form, and distributed as widely as possible, so that they may 
 reach every farm home in the State of Ohio. 
 
 The motion was promptly seconded. 
 
 VicE PRESIDENT GANSON, Urbana: I happen to be a member of the 
 State Board of Agriculture, and I would have been glad to have had the 
 honor of making such a motion as that. It is seldom that we hear such 
 sentiments, such truths, in a public meeting, as we have heard from our 
 loyal Governor and our loyal President; and it is with pleasure that I 
 ask all those in favor of the motion to make it known by a rousing aye. 
 
 The motion carried unanimously, the Vice-President in his enthu- 
 siasm forgetting to put the negative. 
 
 PrestpENT SANDLES: I guess the Governor has a bigger farm than 
 I have. He will have to buy the peanuts for you. (Laughter). I will 
 say this in behalf of the Governor and myself that this unanimous vote 
 is highly appreciated. 
 
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