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pretty good thing for the State of Maine. The states of New 

 York and Massachusetts have a flat rate of $25. 



Question : Do I understand that the work is not done 

 properly? 



Dr. Woods : I do not beheve we people can thrash this out 

 here, but I would refer it to the Experiment Station 

 committee. If it is a burden of expense upon the University, 

 that has not grown to be a very serious matter, but may become 

 so, I move that this matter be referred to a committee of which 

 the President of the Association is the chairman and the other 

 'members be Prof. Corbett and the Presidents of the Dairy 

 Breeding Associations that are connected with our Association, 

 to consider this matter and to report at the next annual con- 

 vention. 



Prof. Corbftt: There is 90 per cent of the reports that go 

 through my hands that have red ink on them, which means that 

 there are mistakes. There are doctors, good and plenty, that 

 we would not let into the house. Is that tlie fault of the insti- 

 tution ? 



Dr. Smith : Isn't it understood that the institution exists 

 for the purpose of turning out trained men? 



Prof. Corbett: We cannot take wood and make thinking 

 machines of them. 



Dr. Smith : You do not need to put them out, then. 



Prof. Corbett: No, we do not. I am not complaining about 

 the institution, but about the advanced registry business. 



Dr. Woods: Who appoints the testers? 



Prof. Corbett : Tlie cow testing association men make out 

 these reports and present them to these associations. At the 

 present time I wish to say that we have no men who have taken 

 a four years' course at the institution. We have a two years' 

 course for men who have not had preliminary training, in 

 which we try to do all we can and try to make practical farmers 

 out of them. I think there is not one cow testing association 

 except the Portland institution. 



Dr. Smitii : We have had men from your association, and 

 supposed they were all right. 



Prof. Corbett : We send out what we have. 



