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agriculture. The farmer will imi ])e the only one wIkj will 

 need to make chani^es in his metho<ls of (loin<^ business. 



Is not ai;ricuUure as necessary and important to the wel- 

 fare of our country as any one or all of our industries? If so, 

 ehould not the farmers' business enable him to hire just as 

 reliable and as well trained help as the manufacturer? This 

 he can only do by getting more for his prcjducts so he can ])ay 

 better wages which will enable him to secure the same qual- 

 ity of labor as the manufacturer. Still another question 

 nhich will enter into the farmers' problems in the recon- 

 struction period is the number of hours which farm labcjr 

 will be willing to work. If the trades only require their help 

 to work for eight hours as a full day, wdiere will the farmer 

 get off? 



The Board, as in the previous year, has done much to en- 

 courage the use of milk and to have the consumer realize its 

 food value as well as its production cost. While we have 

 endeavored to emphasize these points, the Connecticut Milk 

 Producers' Association has done a great work in assisting the 

 farmers to get a fair price for their milk product. Only 

 through co-operative work could this have been done. Under 

 the present system of dairy inspection, better milk is being 

 made in our dairies resulting in a much greater quantity 

 being 'used. For eastern Connecticut, the Xew England 

 I\Iilk Producers' Association has been assisted on several oc- 

 casions both in the state and at Boston by the Secretary of 

 the Board. A e^reat work has been done bv this Association 

 in securing a price for milk in the Boston and Providence 

 markets never before received. For the first time in the his- 

 tory of the milk industry a price for milk, delivered in Bos- 

 ton, without a surpdus clause has been arranged. This 

 through the ruling of the Regional ^lilk Board which recog- 

 nized its justice both in the raise in price and the cancelling 

 of the surplus clause. 



In the early summer our attention was called to the fact 

 that (Uir Xew Eno^land cantonments were refusino^ to buv Xcvn' 

 England grown hay because it did not grade in accordance 

 with the requirements of the National Hay Growers' Associa- 

 tion. Your Secretary with others in N"ew England took hold 

 of the matter with the result that after several weeks of work 



