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Mr. Beyer: Asi the Chair understands it, the only possible 

 objection that the farmers might have, from their standpoint, 

 is that this association might be committed to approval of the 

 attitude of the Board of Health in Massachusetts. I think 

 that is a very likely and proper objection, but that would not 

 necessarily apply. Such a committee could investigate, could 

 confer and advise, without having anything to do with the 

 action which the Massachusetts Board of Health is taking. 



Mr. McEdward : I have been a member of this associa- 

 tion ever since it was organized and I have found in my travels 

 over the State of Maine that the men who attend these meetings 

 have no fear of the Board of Health. The men who never 

 attend these meetings, and never get these reports, are the 

 ones we have the trouble with. 



The Question was called for and it was voted, that the exec- 

 utive committee of the Maine Dairymen'si ^Association, with 

 Mr. Harris, form a committee with full power to act for this 

 association in connection with the situation brought up by the 

 Boston Board of Health in the hsting of undesirable producers 

 of milk in this state. 



PRIZE ESSAYS. 



The same prizes were offered by the Maine Dairymen's Asso- 

 ciation as in 1913, for the three best essays by students in the 

 agricultural courses in secondary schools in the state, upon 

 subjects selected by the association, namely, — First, gold watch ; 

 second, silver watch ; third, fountain pen. 



These prizes were won by Edward C. Whitman of the 

 Greeley Institute, Cumberland Center, Herbert L. Seekins of 

 Hartland Academy and Hervey S. Bean of the Maine Wes- 

 leyan Seminary, Kent's Hill. 



The presentation was made by Dr. L. S. Merrill, Secretary 

 of the Maine Dairymen's Association, in a few well chosen 

 remarks. 



The essays will be found in the following pages. 



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