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ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



President Bruce : — All who care to renew their membership 

 can do so at the noon recess when the treasurer will be present 

 for that purpose. 



Mr. Drew invites all members to go to his farm out on 

 Shelburne Road to see his dairy. All desiring to go should so 

 signify and carriages will be provided, leaving the Van Ness 

 House at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. 



The banquet tonight at the Van Ness will be called at 

 seven fifteen. 



Wednesday, January lo, 1906, 2 P. M. 



President Bruce : — One word in regard to the renewing of 

 your membership. It costs one dollar a year to belong to this 

 Association or five dollars for life membership. The members 

 are what make the Association. If New York should get a 

 State appropriation their dairymen's meeting would soon be 

 ahead of ours. We have the lead now, we want to keep it, and 

 we want as many of you as can to renew your memberships, and 

 those who never have been members, to become such. The mem- 

 bers are entitled to the report and all the literature of the Asso- 

 ciation. 



It is impossible for Prof. McKay to be here, but he has done 

 the next best thing to being present,- — he has sent his paper; and 

 we have done the next best thing in getting Prof. Dean to read 

 it to you. 



Prof. Dean : — Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : Your 

 president and secretary have asked me to do what I never re- 

 member doing before at a Dairymen's Convention, namely, read 

 another man's paper. However I shall do the best I can and 

 trust I shall have your sympathy, for you can understand that 

 it is a very difficult thing for a person to read another man's 

 paper and make it interesting. 



