STATE AID TO DAIRY INSTRUCTIOX. 7 



should be regarded as not subject to the general rules of said society, 

 but that all premiums based on the same should be paid in full and 

 all unexpended balances from said appropriation should revert to 

 the State treasury. 



And we recommend that a copy of these resolutions be placed in 

 the hands of the Committee on Agriculture. 



The report was accepted and the Secretary was directed to 

 forward a copy to the officers of the Eastern Maine Fair and pre- 

 sent a copy to the Committee on Agriculture of the legislature. 



The committee on amendments to the cattle disease law presented 

 their report recommending certain important amendments to the law, 

 and the same was accepted, and on motion of Prof. Balentine it was 

 voted that the new draft be presented to the committee on agriculture. 



Adjourned to meet in the hall of the House of Representatives at 

 7.30 o'clock, to attend a lecture on dairy instruction. 



ST.ITE AID TO DAIRY INSTRUCTION. 



By Prof. James Cheesman, Secretary New England Creameries 



Association. 



In the first great international exhibition of fort}^ years ago, all 

 nations beheld, as in a mirror, their successes and defeats as rivals 

 in the great industries of the world. The impress of crudeness, or 

 highly developed skill, were plainly visible on all the exhibits. From 

 that time till now, a keen struggle has been going on among the 

 great peoples of the earth for supremacy and power in the markets 

 of the world. It requires no argument to obtain your agreement 

 that the greatest success attained in any one of the manufacturing 

 industries has fallen to that people whose citizens have been most 

 carefully trained in the sciences and arts applied to their special 

 trade. Then, Germany was known for the excellence of some lines 

 of textile fabrics ; France for the beauty of its designs and her pro- 

 ficiency in the art of d3'eing ; England had won distinction in those 

 industries where her coal and iron could be worked up into the most 

 useful products. No one looked for light and guidance in technical 

 education in those days, outside of France and Germany, and so it 

 became the fashion to regard Germany as the best place to send 

 boys desiring training in technical knowledge, France came to be 

 looked upon as the fine art workshop of the world. All this was 

 very discomforting to England, but her statesmen were fully equal 



