DAIRY AND SEED IMPROVEMENT MEETINGS. I7I 



Apr. 17, L. C. Holston, expense, Ex. Com. 



meeting, Mar. 23, 1916 11 21 



June 29, Geo. V. Turgeon, engraving Bell- 

 Merrill cup, 1915 65 43 13 



Cash on hand, Dec. 5, 1916.... $142 14 



Voted, that the report of the treasurer be accepted. 



President Copeland: Can you make an estimate of the 

 outstanding bills? We do not want this to be misleading; we 

 do not want the members to think we are richer than we are. 



Mr. White : I imagine the outstanding bills would amount 

 approximately to $15 or $20. 



On motion, it was 



Voted, that the treasurer make as accurate an estimate as 

 possible of the outstanding bills and submit it as a supplement 

 to his report. Friday morning. 



Question : Have the accounts been audited ? 



President Copeland : I am glad the brother brought up this 

 point. The Constitution provides that the president shall either 

 audit the accounts or cause them to be audited. I have gone 

 over them very carefully. It seems to be a little difificult to fol- 

 low out the program laid down for us. Is there any further 

 business? 



Mr. Rogers : I might make a few suggestions for your con- 

 sideration : At the present time your secretary is officially 

 known as assistant dairy instructor, and he really has no stand- 

 ing, you might say. If the next legislature is going to be in 

 the right frame of mind, I believe this work is now worthy of 

 consideration and that we should try to get a bill through, call- 

 ing for some official recognition of the one who has charge of 

 this work, This will be a great help to him. Under the present 

 circumstances, if there is need of a man to attend Farmers' 

 Institutes, they call on the assistant dairy instructor and he has 

 to go. I have been perfectly willing to go, but in some cases it 

 has interfered with matters that should have been attended to 

 for this Association. It seems to me the man holding this posi- 

 tion should be recognized, just as the other Bureaus are, and 

 it would give him a little more latitude. I think we should 

 have a small appropriation, because, even if the work is self- 



