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Mr. Beyer: That is a very interesting question and one 

 which I imagine our dairymen would want to take into con- 

 sideration and take wise action upon, whatever it might be. I 

 wish we had had the suggestion a Httle earher so that we might 

 have appointed a committee to look over the ground and make 

 some intelligent recommendations. It might be proper to ap- 

 point a committee to investigate, or this body may wish to take 

 some action now. 



Mr. Redman : \\'ould it be wise to leave that to the executive 

 committee to act as they saw fit ? 



Mr. Beyer: It might be, if the meeting so desired. It is 

 quite a big question, and I do not know whether the executive 

 committee would want to act on so important a matter without 

 consulting the whole body or not. That is up to you, gentlemen. 



H. M. Woods: It is too much of a proposition to settle o(T 

 hand here in five minutes. And if we do not leave it to a 

 committee we cannot act as an association again for a year. It 

 is a question of referring it to a committee or letting the matter 

 lie for a year. I would be perfectly willing to vote in favor of 

 a motion to empower either the executive committee or a special 

 committee appointed for that purpose to act for the association. 



Dr. Pearl: In a matter of this kind it seems to me that 

 the most unwise thing in the world would be hasty action. It 

 seems to me that it would be well to refer the matter to a 

 committee to report at the meeting of the association next year 

 and be prepared at that time to make recommendations. I 

 think a year is not too long a time to consider what we want to 

 do, especially in view of the prevailing trend of legislating 

 goodness into us which some people I am sure look on with 

 doubt. I myself am not inclined to too much in that line. It 

 s^ems to me it is better to go a little slowly and either appoint 

 a special committee or ask the legislative committee to report 

 with definite recommendations a year from this time. 



Mr. McEdward: Mr. Harris has just said that something 

 of the kind ought to be done. Something is being done now. 

 The Boston Board of Health has had men down in our section 

 doing this very thing, — that is, refusing to allow certain farmers 

 to sell their cream or milk, or dispose of it in the Boston 

 markets. I am interested in this in a small way. The same 

 farmers came to us and wanted us to receive their products. 



