DAIRY AND SEED IMPROVEMENT MEETINGS. 1 33 



Executive Committee : President, secretary, treasurer ex- 

 officio, E. E. Gifford, Bowdoinham; H. G. Beyer, Jr., 120 Ex- 

 change Street, Portland ; J. A. Ness, Auburn ; L. E. Mclntire, 

 East Waterford. 



Delegates to Maine Federation: H. G. Beyer, Jr., 120 Ex- 

 change Street, Portland ; C. L. Pike, Lubec. 



Member Station Council : L. C. Holston, Cornish. 



Visitor to the College : George H. Dunn, Norway, R. F. 

 D. 2. 



A ballot was held and the officers nominated were declared 

 elected. 



Voted, that the secretary be and hereby is instructed to write 

 the members of the Association and request them to pay their 

 dues promptly. 



R. M. Gilmore, Secretary of the Central Maine Fair, asked 

 that the Maine Live Stock Breeders' Association, or the various 

 Maine Breed Associations, offer premiums at the Waterville 

 Fair as one means for improving the live stock feature of the 

 fair. 



Voted to leave the matter to the State Breed Associations. 



Voted, that the executive committee be instructed to have 

 introduced, at the next session of legislature, a stallion registra- 

 tion law and to use all proper means to secure its enactment. 



Meeting adjourned until 7.30 P. M., when it was 



Voted, that a committee be appointed to bring before the 

 legislature, the coming winter, the matter of more just reim- 

 bursement for pure-bred animals condemned for tuberculosis. 



The following named men were chosen to serve on the com- 

 mittee : H. M. Tucker, David Moulton, L. E. Mclntire. 



Voted, that the executive committee be instructed to take 

 some action at the next legislature to get an appropriation for 

 a better live stock exhibition. 



Copies of the addresses given during the meetings were not 

 furnished the secretary by the several speakers. They are, from 

 necessity, therefore, omitted from this report. 



Respectfully submitted, * 



N. C. SHERWOOD, 



Secretary. 



