DAIRY MEETING. 5I 



And your organization comes to us at this time banded together 

 to advise ways and means by which it may better carry on one 

 of the industries which must furnish sustenance to the great 

 mass of the people of our country and coming in this progress- 

 ive spirit, and representing the interests that you represent, we 

 most cordially welcome you to our town. It is peculiarly pleas- 

 ing to us also that you meet here for your deliberations, because 

 it affords such a splendid opportunity for our own citizens, with 

 no expense, to hear and to see the latest things in this industry. 

 We have in our community, we believe, some of the finest 

 farmers in the State, some of the most progressive farmers. 

 We have model places of business and most excellent business 

 men. We have manufacturing industries of which we are very 

 proud, and our schools rank well. To all these we most cor- 

 dially welcome you, and if while you are here time affords, we 

 trust you will visit some of them. And last of all, we welcome 

 you to our homes, where you will find, we believe, some of the 

 best housewives in the State of Maine and in which bodily com- 

 fort and inner pleasure will be ministered unto you. We most 

 cordially welcome the State Dairymen's Association at this time 

 to the town of Dexter, and we trust that you will have very 

 pleasant memories of it when you leave. 



