DAIRY AND SEED IMPROVEMENT MEETINGS. 23I 



Voted, that the action of yesterday in relation to the standing 

 committee for receiving and handling dairy products be recon- 

 sidered, and that the motion be amended by adding to it that 

 this committee shall act under the advice of the executive com- 

 mittee and that the executive committee's advice shall be final 

 and binding upon them, and the motion be passed in this form. 



Voted, that the same delegates who were appointed last year 

 as representatives to the Maine Federation of Agricultural 

 Associations serve the association in that capacity for the com- 

 ing year, and that this association pay its proportional part to 

 have the minutes of the Federation typewritten for the use of 

 the delegates. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 



Resolved^ That this association heartily endorses and will 

 give every possible aid to the securing of an appropriation for 

 a new dairy building and dairy barns at the University of Maine, 

 believing that, as set forth in the report of the committee of 

 visitors to the University, such an appropriation is absolutely 

 essential to the proper development of the teaching and experi- 

 mental work of the University. 



Resolved, That this association notes with great satisfaction 

 that the Smith-Lever Bill, providing for the support of exten- 

 sion work in each state, was passed at the last session of Con- 

 gress, thus providing for a considerable development of exten- 

 sion work in Maine, and that further, this association will, as 

 an association and through its individual members, make every 

 effort in the direction of ensuring that appropriate legisJative 

 action is taken in this state so that Maine may secure the max- 

 imum federal appropriation under the Smith-Lever Act. 



Resolved, That the joint meetings of the Maine Seed Im- 

 provement Association and the Maine Dairymen's Association 

 have been a great success and it is the sense of this association 

 that such joint meetings should be continued in the future. 



Resolved, That the Maine Dairymen's Association endorses 

 the county demonstration work as carried on under the direc- 

 tion of the College of Agriculture, and that we would strongly 

 urge the desirability of extending this work as much as possible. 

 Resolved, That it becomes our sad duty to record the death 

 of Hon. Rutillus Alden. Mr. Alden was the promoter of our 



