DAIRY AND SEED IMPROVEMENT MEETINGS. I93 



REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



STATE DAIRY CONFERENCE AND ANNUAL 



MEETINGS 



OF THE 



MAINE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



AND 



MAINE SEED IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 



CITY HALL, BANGOR, 



December 8-ii, 1914. 



Tuesday Evening, December 8. 



Meeting opened by Hon. John A. Roberts, Commissioner of 

 Agriculture. Music. Invocation by Rev. Ashley A. Smith, 

 Bangor. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



John G. Utterback, Mayor of Bangor. 



I am very happy to extend to you tonight a hearty greeting 

 on behalf of the citizens of Bangor. I welcome you to our 

 city, and we trust that your deliberations may be profitable as 

 well as pleasant. A convention of this sort coming to our city 

 is a great benefit to us, bringing to usi, as it does, the very best 

 citizenship of the various localities of the state. I am a firm 

 believer in the encouragement by us in every way of the coop- 



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