178 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



STATE DAIRY CONFERENCE AND ANNUAL 



MEETINGS 



OF THE 



MAINE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 

 MAINE SEED IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 



AND 



MAINE LIVE STOCK BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION 

 City Hall, Lewiston 

 December 6-10, 1915. 



Monday Evening, December 6. 



Meeting opened by Hon. W. T. Guptill, Commissioner of 

 Agriculture. Invocation by Rev. S. A. Blaisdell. Lewiston. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



Hon. Louis J. Brann, Mayor. 



It is with great pleasure that I welcome the Maine Dairy- 

 men's Association and the bodies with which it is allied, to 

 Lewiston. 



It is indeed an age of great education — an education that is 

 being made each day by improved facilities, easier for the com- 

 mon, everyday man to obtain. It is an age also of highly 



