DAIRY MEETING. 59 



THE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION, ITS AIMS AND 



PURPOSES. 



By F. S. Adams, President of the Association. 



Members of the Maine Dairynien's Association; Ladies and 



Gentlemen: 



I know that I ought to apologize to you tonight for not taking 

 the time and trouble to write something for this occasion. ]My 

 excuse is that I have been so very busy in the last few weeks 

 that I have not found time. Perhaps it might be well to give 

 you a brief history of the Maine State Dairymen's Association. 

 I want you to judge after w^e have given you this little history 

 whether we have accomplished anything, and whether we are 

 worthy of your assistance and co-operation. I do not care 

 whether it is organizations or individuals, if they have not 

 accomplished anything in this world and are not accomplishing 

 anything, it makes no difference to the world whether they are 

 dead or alive, and that is true of the Alaine' Dairymen's Asso- 

 ciation. If we cannot show you that we have accomplished 

 something, that we are accomplishing something now, and that 

 we are going to accomplish something in the future, it does not 

 make any difference to the people of Dexter or of the State of 

 ]\Iaine whether we are dead or alive. This is a matter in 

 which we are all interested, whether we are producing milk or 

 not. You are all interested in the production of milk; if you 

 are not producers you are consumers and next to the milk of 

 human kindness in this w^orld comes the milk of the mooly cow. 

 I very well remember when this Association was organized, ten 

 years ago this last month. Brother Alden, Brother Gilbert, and 

 some of the other older dairymen in this State who had faith 

 in jMaine and faith in the Alaine dairymen, got out a call for 

 those who were interested in dairying and wished to organize 

 a dairy association to meet in W'inthrop at the Grange Hall, 

 and we met there the next day after that terrible storm which 

 will always be remembered as the storm in which the "City of 

 Portland" went down and very many lives were lost. We met 



