764 BOAEt) OF AGRICULTUEE. 



They were voted upon and carried. 



Mr. Calvin: As a member of the Committee on Resolutions there is 

 one resolution which, if it is made effective will require a motion, and I 

 desire that we do somethiui;- to malce this effective. If we do not do 

 this Ave might just as well h.ivo left that resolution out, and that is the 

 resolution in regard to oloM)mai-garine. I would like to move you that the 

 Secretary of our Association forward to our United States Congressmen, 

 and United States Senators, and members of the lower house, a copy of 

 this resolution, with the sense of the Association. 



(Motion cai'ried.) 



President Johnson: Has this committee any further report to make? 

 Are the Legislative Committee in the room? 



Secretary Van Norman: I think they are still at work. 



President Johnson: We will then go on with the program. 



RETAILING MILK. 



F. W. HEMENWAY, ZIONSVILLE. 



I had a paper prepared on this subject but I hardly think I shall read 

 it. I seriously objected to having anything to say on the subject wh'en the 

 matter was first mentioned to me, but the Secretary called me a goose, 

 and told me that the discussion was the best part anyhow, so I surren- 

 dered. If you should go to him and ask him he would probably give you 

 a dilTcrciit story, but these are the facts. 



I should like to tell you of an interview I had with a farmer a few days 

 ago. To make it more explicit it was as I came down here today. He 

 told me that he had just sold his farm of eighty acres near a town of 

 ],V)00 inhabitants, and avms looking for n new location in order to get into 

 the retail milk business, lie thought his farm was not large enough. 

 I hardly agree with him. 



I have been in this business for a number of years. Our business all 

 depends upon the law of sujiply and demand. We started our business a 

 while ago in one tin pail taken by my little boy on his way to school every 

 morning, and after a while it became necessary to purchase another tin 



