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We had to refuse them. We do not want it in the first place, 

 and in the second place it would only encourage them in their 

 methods. I feel that something ought to be done at once. If 

 another creamer)' will take the product of these farmers who 

 are delinquent, there will be nothing done to better conditions, 

 but if a man is made to clean up and put more light in his 

 tieup it will be better all around. I move that the executive 

 committee have control of this and would add the name of Mr. 

 Harris, to the committee. 



Mr. Beyer : The motion is now made that the executive 

 committee of the Maine Dairymen's Association, with the addi- 

 tion of Mr. E. E. Harris, serve as a committee with power to 

 act for this association in regard to the listing of undesirable 

 producers of milk in this state. 



Mr. Harris : It seems to me that it does not cover what 

 would be required. I was talking with Mr. Ryder of the 

 Turner Center Creamery who went out with the man whom 

 the Boston Board of Health has sent into the state. The ex- 

 penses of this man were some over $8.00 a day, and that was 

 paid, as I understand it, by the State Department of Agri- 

 culture of Massachusetts. They go into the barn and use the 

 government score card. The score, however, is very moderate. 

 I think a score of 45 will pass, so that hardly anyone would be 

 shut out from having the right to sell cream unless there was 

 some undesirable feature that he might overcome, in regard to 

 manure, or light in the tieup or something of that sort. It 

 seems to me that in connection with that barn inspection there 

 might be something that we could do, for our own good, and 

 which would at the same time be acceptable to the Boston Board 

 of Health. Mr. Ryder said that a certain patron was shut out 

 and he said he would not fix up but would go to another cream- 

 ery, and he did. We do not want to be driven into this by the 

 Boston Board of Health. 



Mr. Holston : I think we should go pretty slow on this 

 proposition because a great number of the dairymen in this 

 state and in all other states have not the equipment that they 

 would like to have, due possibly to the prices they are getting 

 for their products. They have a dairy and would like to make 

 that pay as a dairy, not as a breeding establishment, but it is 

 impossible. They have got to get their profit by breeding; 



