Official Document, No. 6. 



FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PENNSYL- 

 VANIA DAIRY UNION, HELD AT YORK, PENN- 

 SYLVANIA, DECEMBER 4 AND 5, 1901. 



FIKST DAY— Moruing Session. 



York, Pa., December 4, 1901. 



Preceding the formal opening of the meeting. Professor Hayward 

 made the following statement: 



I need hardly say that the object of the Pennsylvania Dairy Union 

 is to stimnlate and interest the farmers of Pennsylvania in the dairy 

 industry. Our efforts in the past four years have been along this 

 line. We framed and had passed the oleomargarine bill, and we are 

 working along lines which will be of interest and benefit to the dairy- 

 men. We have not done all we hope to do, but we have done some- 

 thing. Our meeting to-day is for the purpose of securing mutual 

 ideas regarding what we ought, and can do to help along the standard 

 of dairying products. 



The annual dues of the Union are one dollar, and we hold one 

 meeting each year. We try to get the best authorities in the country 

 to come to us and present their experience and practice to us first 

 hand. The cost of holding this meeting will be about |400, and I hope 

 that those of you who are not already members and who are inter- 

 ested in dairying will contribute your influence and mone^'. 



The meeting was then called to order by the President, Joseph C. 

 Sharpless, of Londongrove. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



The address of welcome was delivered by Mr. D. P. Forney, of Han- 

 over, as follows: 



Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the Union: In obedience to 

 the great law of co-operation and organization which seems to pre- 

 vail just now in every department of human industry, the dairymen 

 of Pennsylvania have banded themselves together for furthering 

 their own interests. They have come into the county of York for the 

 purpose of holding a meeting and doing what is possible for the fur- 

 therance of the dairy interests here as well as elsewhere in the State. 



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