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when a high producing and a low producing breed are crossed 

 together. Such experiments, as we have ix)inte(l out in previ- 

 ous reports, are absokitely essential to gain a complete under- 

 standing of the process. 



III. The Future. 



Your committee wishes again to point out the need for 

 continued official support for this work on the part of the 

 Maine Dairymen's Association. The breeding experiments with 

 dairy cattle are bound in the nature of the case to take a long 

 time for completion. Quick results cannot be had. The work 

 at the present time is making good progress. As we pointed out 

 in our last report, if this work is to continue to be successful 

 and valuable to the live-stock breeders of the state it is essen- 

 tial that it be adequately supported. The most immediate and 

 pressing need for the work will be the provision of adequate 

 barn space. Unless, at the coming session of the legislature, 

 the University of Maine gets an appropriation for a new barn, it 

 will mean that the breeding experiments must practically come 

 to a standstill and remain there until such a time as barns are 

 provided. In view of the necessarily time-consuming nature of 

 any breeding experiments with cattle it seems of the utmost 

 importance that no avoidable hindrance which would prolong 

 this time should be put in their way. 



Respectfully submitted, 



W. G. HUNTON, 



F. S. Adams, 

 Raymond Pearl. 



Voted, That this report be accepted and the committee con- 

 tinued. On account of the death of Mr. Alden, a member of 

 this committee, it was voted that when the association elect a 

 member of the Experiment Station Council the person elected 

 shall also be a member of the committee. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 

 President, H. G. Beyer, Jr., Portland ; vice president, H, M. 

 Tucker, Canton ; secretary, L. S. Merrill, Orono ; treasurer, 

 Chas. R. Millett, West Minot ; trustee, E. E. Harris, Skow- 

 hegan ; member of Experiment Station Council, F. S. Adams, 

 Bowdoinham; visiting member to University of Maine, L. C. 

 Holston, Cornish. 



