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ular convention. It seems to me that if it should happen that 

 I should not be here next year I would like to have the secre- 

 tary notify me that my membership fee is due and remind me 

 that I shall send $1.00. And I would move that our secretary 

 be instructed to remind those who were members in 1907 and 

 paid a year ago that they should remit $1.00, and that this 

 should be the uniform practice hereafter. 



Voted, That all members of 1907 in arrears for the year 1908 

 be notified by the secretary that they pay $1.00 and continue 

 their membership, and that this be the practice hereafter. 



The committee on resolutions made the following report, 

 which was accepted, and the resolutions adopted by the asso- 

 ciation : 



Resolved, That as farmers of Maine we rejoice at the recog- 

 nition of the great agricultural industry by the President, and 

 the appointment of a special commission to consider the best 

 means for strengthening the financial, educational and moral 

 influence centering' in farm homes. We rejoice that two ses- 

 sions of this commission are to be held in New England, but 

 desire to express our just indignation that both of those are 

 located in one state, when the best interests and service of the 

 commission and the people can be insured only by a fairer dis- 

 tribution of direct influence. Recognizing the importance of 

 these sessions, we unitedly favor the sending of one of the 

 officers of this association to the meeting in Boston, December 

 1 8th. 



Resolved, That the Maine State Dairymen's Association 

 reaffirms the action taken at the annual convention in 1906 in 

 that it endorses the efforts of the fruit growers to obtain 

 increased facilities for the study of orchard problems, and 

 hereby urges upon the legislature the passage of the bill referred 

 to it from the last legislature for the purchase of a farm for 

 the use of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station in carry- 

 ing on experimental work for the benefit of the fruit industry 

 of the State of Maine. 



Resolved, That in view of the fact that there is an increased 

 demand for more to be done along dairy lines, this association 

 believes that it will be in the interests of the State that such 

 legislation be enacted and sufficient appropriations granted by 



