DAIRY AND SEED IMPROVEMENT MEETINGS. 20/ 



F. S. Adams: At a meeting held at the Agricultural De- 

 partment in the State House the first of November, to which 

 the officers of the Dairymen's Association were invited and at 

 which the most of them were present as well as other promi- 

 nent dairymen in the state, in discussing the program for this 

 meeting it was voted to offer three prizes for essays from the 

 boys in the secondary schools taking the agricultural courses ; 

 a gold watch for the first prize, a silver watch for the second 

 prize, and a fountain pen for the third prize. These essays 

 were to be on dairy subjects, and the subjects were sent out 

 from the Department of Agriculture. One was "The Produc- 

 tion of Clean Milk," and the other "The Building up of Dairy 

 Herds." In answer to this we received essays from four 

 schools in the state, — Bucksport Seminary, Hartland Academy, 

 Good Will High School at Hinckley and Kent's Hill Seminary ; 

 one from each of the first two, seven from Good Will and 

 three from Kent's Hill Seminary. After the essays had been 

 carefully read by several men, individually and collectively, 

 we decided that the first prize should go to a boy from Bucks- 

 port, the second to a boy from Hartland Academy and the 

 third to a boy from Good Will Farm. I want to assure you 

 that these were excellent essays. You will have a chance to 

 judge for yourselves. It is necessary to have some one ap- 

 pointed to secure the prizes, and I move that the president ap- 

 point a committee at the present time to secure these for the 

 boys. The Maine Dairymen's Association pays for these 

 prizes out of the funds in the treasury. This motion was 

 carried and the president appointed F. S. Adams, Mrs. G. H. 

 Dunn and Mrs, W. G. Hunton as this committee. 



Voted, that the committee on barns at the University bs 

 continued, and that the appointment of the members of this 

 committee be left to the incoming president. 



An invitation from the Secretary of the Bangor Chamber of 

 Commerce for the annual meeting of the Maine Dairymen's 

 Association to be held in that city in 1914, was read. 



