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DELEGATE HANSON: For constitutional purposes I

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would consider a farm to be those things that are defined as

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a farm by the General Assembly just as the State Finance

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Committee assumes that agriculture will be what the

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Legislature defines agriculture to be. I think that

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Delegate Adkins in his question is making for me the same

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point that I made earlier, that we are dealing here with a

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legislative matter and not a constitutional matter.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Adkins.

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DELEGATE ADKINS: Precisely the point, and there-

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fore I would suggest to you that what you are trying to do

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is to write the legislation in the Constitution when you

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use words such as "farm," "operate," and "bona fide" withou :

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definition, is it not true, since this is a question --

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THE PRESIDENT: I wonder if you were reading

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my mind on that, Delegate Adkins.

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DELEGATE ADKINS: I have been here long enough

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so that I try to, Mr. President. Is it not true that you are

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not writing constitutional language but trying to legislate?

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Hanson.

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DELEGATE HANSON: Delegate Adkins, I am just a