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port from the members of the associations than they used to. 

 Does not the Dairy Testing Association increase the value of the 

 man to his family and to the community? 



The Dairy Testing Associations can do a great deal for the 

 State of Maine if we will work with them. Let us co-operate. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE 

 NEEDS OF THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE IN 

 RELATION TO DAIRY AND HORSE BARNS. 



To the Maine Dairymen's Association: 



Your special committee appointed at the last annual meeting 

 of the Maine Dairymen's Association to investigate the needs 

 of the College of Agriculture in relation to dairy and horse 

 barns have attended to that duty and beg leave to make the 

 following report : 



Complying with the direction of the association your com- 

 mittee visited the University at Orono and after careful inves- 

 tigation presented the matter to the Board of Trustees as stated 

 below. 



We. desire to state at this time that a special committee was 

 appointed at the annual meeting of the ]\Iaine Live Stock 

 Breeders' Association to act in co-operation with the special 

 committee from the Dairymen's Association, and at the time 

 the investigation was made at Orono and the matter brought 

 to the attention of the trustees, these two committees acted as 

 a joint committee in the presentation of the following petition: 



To the Honorable Board of Trustees, University of Maine: 



At the annual meeting of the Maine Dairymen's Association 

 held in Skowhegan, December, 1909, a resolution was intro- 

 duced recommending that the cattle and horse barns at the 

 University farm be so renovated and enlarged as will meet the 

 growing needs of the College of Agriculture. This resolution 

 received favorable consideration and it was ordered that a com- 

 mittee be raised to investigate the conditions and needs men- 



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