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inspection, sanitation and oversight of products until final 

 delivery to consumer, and we recommend such legislation as 

 will place authority in the State Department of Agriculture. 



Resolved, That the association again expresses its indebted- 

 ness to the press for the full and able reports of all its meetings. 

 Resolved, That we are under renewed obligations to the rail- 

 roads of the State for courtesies received in connection with 

 this meeting. 



R. AldEn, 



John ]\I. Deering, 



E. E. Harris, 



Committee on Resolutions. 



Voted, That the resolutions which pertain to legislative mat- 

 ters be referred to the executive committee of the Maine Dairy- 

 men's Association. 



Voted, That the names of Rutillus Alden and W. G. Hunton 

 be added to this committee. 



looted. That the president of the association serve as a dele- 

 gate to the meeting of the commission appointed by the Presi- 

 dent on Rural Uplift, which is to be held in Boston on the i8th 

 of this month, and that his expenses be paid from the treasury 

 of the association. 



Prof. Hurd. There is a matter that I would like to bring 

 % before this association, and that is in regard to some future 

 work with corn and grain. We all realize, of course, the 

 importance of live stock as a means of keeping up the fertility 

 of the land but back of the live stock industry must be the get- 

 ting of crops or the use of land. Now the State of Maine has 

 no general agricultural society. It has a Pomological Society, 

 which is a strictly fruit society, and it has a poultry association. 

 This Dairymen's Association must be the general agricultural 

 society of the State and I am very glad that Dr. Twitchell took 

 it upon himself to offer these prizes, and get up an interest 

 among the boys in the growing of corn. Dr. Twitchell said 

 yesterday that in case the Association did not see fit to take up 

 this work he would continue it. This is something which the 

 State should do, it seems to me, rather than any individual, and 

 I would like to make a motion that the Maine Dairymen's x'Vsso- 

 ciation offer the coming year substantial prizes for an exhibi- 



