l^S AGRICLLTIKK Ul" MAINE. 



Hon. J. A. Roberts. 



Governor Haines has made some explanation of the transfer 

 of the matter of the seahng of weights and measures from the 

 Treasury Department to the Agricultural Department, and has 

 told you that the last legislature made an appropriation for the 

 work. After that appropriation was made the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture appointed Mr. Levi S. Pennell of Portland as 

 Deputy Sealer of Weights and Measures in the state. Mr. 

 Pennell had been sealer of weights and measures in the city of 

 Portland many years and came with high recommendations 

 from leading citizens of that city. He immediately took up the 

 work. It was required by the statute that every town should 

 have a sealer and that every town should have a set of stand- 

 ards. His first work consisted in seeing to it that each town 

 in the state did have a set of standards and that that set of 

 standards was compared with the state standards, and he has 

 been very successful in the work. The larger portion of the 

 towns of the state have provided themselves with the required 

 standards, sent them to the office here, and had them approved ; 

 and many of the towns, I think nearly lOO, have made to Mr. 

 Pennell the annual report required by the statute, of the work 

 in their individual towns. So that the work is progressing; 

 and while the Governor said that there might be people in the 

 state who are not honest, and that would call for this sort of 

 work, we must also consider that scales, for instance, which 

 are used in a store day after day, and year after year, get out of 

 repair and instances are known where men in business have 

 sold goods for a long time and cheated themselves because the 

 scales were out of repair. 



I have the pleasure of introducing to you the next speaker. 

 Mayor Newbert. 



Mayor E. E. Newbert. 



It is surprising to me to find so many men here representing 

 the towns and cities of this state. Governor Haines has said a 

 good many good things to us, and in his capacity as Governor 

 of our state his presence here this morning is in itself a wel- 

 come to this convention. I need not as mayor of our little city 

 extend to you a formal welcome because you know you are 

 welcome. You are in the capitol ; it belongs to you ; it belongs 

 to every citizen. 



