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are crossed together. It has been pointed out in previous re- 

 ports of this committee that such experiments are absolutely 

 essential to gain a complete understanding of the process. 



III. THE FUTURE. 



While your committee feels that, with the granting of the 

 appropriation for breeding exj)eriments by the legislature one 

 of its primary reasons for being no longer exists, we neverthe- 

 less wish to point out that the need for a continued interest 

 and support for this work on the part of the Maine Dairymen's 

 Association is just as great as ever. It needs no emphasizing 

 before this body that the carrying out of breeding experiments 

 with dairy cattle is bound, in the nature of the case, to be a 

 slow and time-consuming process, in which quick results are 

 not to be expected. The work has been well started. If it is 

 to continue to be successful, and valuable to the live stock in- 

 terests of the state, it is essential that it be adequately sup- 

 ported. Specifically, an absolute necessity of the immediate 

 future will be the provision of barn space. Unless the Univer- 

 sity of Maine gets new barns within two years from this time, 

 it will mean the curtailing of the breeding experiments and con- 

 sequently a greatly prolonged time before definite results can 

 possibly be reached. Your committee desires especially to 

 bring this to your attention as an additional reason why the 

 University should be provided with adequate barns. 



Respectfully submitted, 



RUTILLUS ALDEN, 

 W. G. HUNTON, 

 F. S. ADAMS, 

 RAYMOND PEARL. 



Voted that this report be accepted and the committee contin- 

 ued. 



The following committees were appointed by the Chair: 

 Committee on Resolutions, L. C. Holston, A. E. Hodges, Dr. 

 Raymond Pearl; committee to secure new members, F. S. 

 Adams, R. P. Mitchell, Rutillus Alden; committee to sell ban- 

 quet tickets, Iv. S. Merrill. 



