Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-10-28
TO THE VOTERS OF
PIKE COUNTY.

If elected to the Legislature as
your Representative this fall, l have
in mind and plans laid for the draft
ing Of law asking the state to estab-
iish State Agricultural Farm in the
upper end of Pike County, at point
accessible to Wayne and Monroe
Counties.
1 have gone into the matter at
some length with representatives of
the State Agricultural Department,
as well as others, and l am assured
that such plan is feasible aud l be-
lieve such plan could be successfully
carried out
If elected l would draft and intro
duce such a law, asking the state
Legislature to appropriate from the
State funds an amount of money suf-
ficient to purchase a suitable tract of
land; to properly equip it with build
ings, machinery and stock, and to
employ a corps of men trained under
the Department of Agriculture to op-
crate the same, so that residents of
this as of the adjoining counties
could see the results of scientific farm.
ing and dairying, attend the lectures
and demonstrations given there and
receive instruction and advice free of
charge.
believe that the State OF Pennsyl-
vania, having within its borders, mil
lions Of dollars invested in the finest
farming lands in the world, should
endeavor to give her farmers all it
can and in no way could the state dc
more for Pike County than to estab-
lish such a farm under the direction
of its agricultural department, oper.
ated by skilled men, paid for by the
state and given free to all those de
string to be benefited.
Such farm would, in my opinion,
be worth thousands Of dollars annu-
ally to Pike County and show those
interested the best and most modern
methods of general farming raising
of fruits, vegetables, breeding Of ami.
mails and fowls, and dairying etc,
and pledge myself if elected. to On.
dertake to secure such an expert.
mental farm for the upper end of
Pike County.
l wonld endeavor to press TO a fin
ish the Free Bridge movement
which has never progressed to Sc
near solution as now, and j hay,
every reason to believe that its pas
sage could be secured.
If this Free Bridge question is uor
now disposed Of favorably, # VIII
take years to get our sister states Q,
again cooperate in the movemen
and the efforts Of the past viii bayl
gone for nothing.
AS chairman Of the Delaware Riv
er Free Bridge Commission, t,
which commission was appointe,
by Governor Stuart, 1 pledge my
} self to submit to the legislature
favorable report recommending tn
purchase of all toll bridges across tn
} Delaware and making them free o
I tolls for all time and if elected
, pledge myself to draft and introduc
: law asking the Legislature to au
propriate from the state funds al
amount of money to buy her half o
these bridges.
If reelected, l would recommen
that our Fish and Game Laws b
) simplitied and made less ambiguous
( so that by casual reading on
might know what he could OF coul
not do.
If reelected, I would work, in haI
r mony with and tavorably for, an
movement towards the betterment
4 our roads, knowing that good roaC
mean easy hauls, personal comfol
j. and the upbuilding of the oommuu
e ty.
A If re- elected, l would re-introduC
the bill asking the Legislature for a
appropriation to the State Highwa
tDeparfment to experiment with Ma