22 Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the 



VERMONT DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 

 Thirty-sixth annuai, meeting. 



The meeting- was called to order at 1.30 P. M. Tuesday, 

 January 9th, by the President, H. C. Bruce of Sharon. Prayer 

 was offered by the Rev. F. D. Penney, of Burlington, pastor of 

 the First Baptist Church. 



President Bruce introduced His Honor, Mayor James E. 

 Burke, who extended a warm welcome to the Dairymen's and 

 the Sugar Maker's Associations. He stated his belief that Bur- 

 lington could offer greater inducements to such organizations to 

 hold their gatherings within her borders than could any other 

 Vermont town or city; that meetings held there would be more 

 productive of good than those held elsewhere; that Burlington 

 should be chosen as the permanent meeting place of the Asso- 

 ciations on the ground of its convenience of access, the oppor- 

 tunities offered for display of exhibits and the large audiences 

 of farmers which attend. He discussed the advantages of farm- 

 er's organizations, the makeup of the State legislature, and the 

 power which farmers possessed therein if they would but wield 

 it, and closed by congratulating the Associations on their bright 

 prospects for successful meetings. 



Mr. George Terrill of Morrisville said in response to the 

 address of welcome : 



"Mr. President, Mayor Burke, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



Thirty-six years ago, a few of the citizens of our State con- 

 ceived the idea that Vermont dairymen should organize to pro- 

 mote their interests and to enable them to produce more and bet- 

 ter butter, to keep more and better cows, and to get a better 

 price for their finished product. The Association thus founded, 

 although weak and feeble and without funds at the outset, has 

 struggled on ; and through the persistent effort of these few men 

 who started it, and their successors, aided by a liberal State ap- 

 propriation, Vermont has today the largest Dairymen's Associa- 

 tion in the United States. 



