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as many new members this year as possible and we want all the 

 old members to renew their membership, in order that our 

 treasury may be replenished. 



On motion of Dr. Woods, it was 



Voted, that the secretary be instructed to send notices to all 

 members of the association not in attendance upon this meet- 

 ing, asking them to renew their membership and contribute 

 their membership fees. 



A report of the delegate to the milk hearing before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission was called for, and Frank S. 

 Adams reported, as follows : 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MILK HEARING BEFORE 

 INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. 



At the last annual meeting of this association it was known 

 that freight rates to Boston on milk had been increased 50 per 

 cent and on cream, 100 per cent by the new freight tariff, and 

 that this had been held up by the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission so that this Commission could have time to investigate 

 the whole question and give all parties interested an opportunity 

 to be heard. It was supposed that this hearing would be held 

 in Washington. D. C, but very soon it was learned that it would 

 be held in Boston for the New England states. I was appointed 

 a committee to represent the Maine Dairymen's Association at 

 this hearing. 



Sometime the first of January, 1916, the Master of the New 

 Hampshire State Grange, Wesley Adams, called a meeting in 

 Boston for January 21. Boards of Agriculture, Dairy Associa- 

 tions, State Colleges, with other agricultural organizations, were 

 invited to send representatives to this meeting to devise ways 

 and means for the milk producers of New En,gland to be 

 properly represented at the milk hearing. This meeting was 

 well attended from the four New England states most inter- 

 ested, namely, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and 

 Maine. From Maine, those present were Mr. Guptill of the 

 Board of Agriculture, Mr. Alden of the State Grange and Mr. 

 Adams of the Dairy Association. After meeting and organiz- 

 ing, it was learned that some of the milk contractors were at 

 the hotel where this meeting was held — Mr. Bradford of the 

 Turner Center Creamery Association and Mr. Hood of Hood 



