DAIRY MEETING. 1 31 



Balance from last year's account ^76 95 



Received from L. W. Dyer, secretary, for mem- 

 bership fees 56 00 



$132 95 



Paid bills as follows : 



J. Natt Oilman, bills for Banquet $24 00 



L. W. Dyer, postag-e, stationery & telephone ... 3 93 



Bill for badges 14 §5 42 78 



Balance $9° I7 



A committee on resolutions was appointed, as follows : Chas. 

 D. Woods, E. F. Pember and W. G. Hunton. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : Pres- 

 ident, F. S. Adams, Bowdoinham; vice president, W. G. Hun- 

 ton, Readfield; secretary, L. W. Dyer, Woodfords ; treasurer, 

 E.utillus Alden, Winthrop ; trustee, W. K. Hamlin, South Water- 

 ford ; corresponding secretaries, R. D. Leavitt, Auburn, T. B. 

 Bradford, Golden Ridge, W. W. Harmon, Falmouth, C. E. 

 Wheeler, Chesterville, J. A. Peters, Ellsworth, Otis Header, Alb- 

 ion, O. Gardner, Rockland, A. C. Fossett, Bristol, J. A. Rob- 

 erts, Norway, C. L. Jones, Corinna, F. W. Leland, East Sanger- 

 ville, B. M. Patten, Topsham. H. B. Ellis, Embden, E. C. Dow, 

 Monroe, A. E. Lincoln, Dennysville, F. B. Pike, Cornish ; mem- 

 Tjer of Advisory Council of Experiment Station, Kutillus Alden. 



A motion was made by Mr. Pember that this Association ask 

 Hon. A. W. Gilman, our Commissioner of Agriculture, to set 

 aside the sum of $90 out of the $500 appropriation for this Con- 

 ference, to be used as prizes to be awarded to students in the 

 agricultural department of the University of Maine, for essays 

 upon two dairy subjects, said subjects to be named by the execu- 

 tive committee of this Association ; three prizes to be given on 

 •each subject, first, $20, second, $15 and third, $10; said essays 

 to be read by the students before the Association at the Annual 

 Dairy Conference. After considerable discussion, this motion 

 was carried. It was voted that the president and secretary of 

 the Association be appointed a committee to award the prizes. 



The following resolution was presented by E. F. Pember, and 

 on motion of Chas. D. Woods, it was adopted by the Association : 

 Resolved, That the State Dairymen's Association heartily 

 •endorses the action of the State Pomological Society in instruct- 

 ing its executive committee to petition the legislature to purchase 



