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the presence of so many interested citizens as are here with us. 

 It is a pleasure to work for the pubHc good, for the promotion 

 of an interest in which the pubHc are all concerned. This 

 Dairymen's Association -represents an interest of vast magni- 

 tude. When you stop to think of it, every individual person, 

 man, woman and child, is more or less deeply concerned with 

 this industry of dairying. And when you think of this, then 

 you may realize something of the importance that is felt in con- 

 nection with this work. It is true I had a hand in the introduc- 

 tion of modern dairy work in our State at large, and that I 

 found in all of those earlier years of that effort a warm appre- 

 ciation of the industry. I felt to encourage that industry from 

 what I had learned of its importance from a financial standpoint 

 in my own work, and what I felt was involved in connection 

 with the general public interest. I am pleased to learn tonight 

 of the endorsement of that work that I have heard from this 

 platform. It gives me a great satisfaction to know that that 

 work was placed in a good cause, and that it has borne bountiful 

 fruitage in all these years. And I am pleased in behalf of this 

 association here tonight to again thank you for the interest that 

 you are manifesting, and to impress upon your minds that in 

 your efforts to aid this association and by your presence here 

 you are building better than you know; you are encouraging 

 the work of this Association in promoting the interests of the 

 dairy work of our State. We have an intelligent class of dairy- 

 men in Maine. They have given close study to the technical- 

 ities of the business. They have made good progress in that 

 direction, as results have shown, and. as the demand for our 

 products in other states and in the general markets have proven, 

 and this gives courage to the association and gives importance 

 to the organized effort to carry the work on to higher results. 

 There is no limit to the progress in any of the branches of our 

 agricultural industry, and especially is this true in the line of 

 dairying. Very much more is demanded today than was the 

 case fifteen or twenty years ago, when this organization was 

 first started in its field of work. Very much more is demanded 

 and a great deal of progress has been made in connection with 

 it, and there is a vast field of progress still ahead, and as we 

 climb one step towards a higher quality of product and a more 



