152 Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the 



President Morse : — The best is none too good to secure for 

 the Vermont Dairymen's Association meetings. It is my pleasure 

 to introduce to you Prof. E. H. Webster, Chief of the Dairy 

 Division, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



President Morse : — Hon. Cassius Peck, Superintendent of 

 the Experiment Farm, extends an invitation to all to visit the 

 Experiment Farm this afternoon. I will guarantee that you will 

 all be repaid for going. 



Mr. Bronson: — Prof. Webster's suggestion as tO' forming 

 test associations should be discussed. This is a good thing for 

 us to consider, — the elimination of cows that are giving inade- 

 quate returns. This Association should take the first step 

 towards fathering their organization. We ought to get this 

 thing started before we adjourn. 



Mr. Smith : — If I should go home and get several of the 

 farmers in that section to agree to go into an association of this 

 kind, has Prof. Hills any young men or any graduates that he 

 can send to us to do this work if we should wish it? 



Prof. Hills :— It would depend somewhat upon circumstances. 

 If the association was a small one with only lOO or 200 cows, 

 there would not be money enough in it to attract one of our young 

 men. But it does not need an agricultural college graduate to 

 engineer it. It simply needs some man who has had some ex- 

 perience in dairying, whO' can weigh milk and Jest it. A dairy 

 school student can do it very well, indeed. 



It would be well worth while for this Association, before 

 this meeting dissolves, to appoint a committee to consider the 

 matter with a view of reporting at the next convention, or other- 

 wise. I understand there are some two or three hundred dollars 

 in the treasury. I suggest that this Association father this move- 

 ment sufficiently to give it an impetus, that it supply the neces- 

 sary blanks and papers, etc. The committee might be given the 

 power to act and be allowed to expend, not to exceed a certain 

 specified sum of money. 



Mr. Jenne : — Perhaps I am talking too much ; but this seems 

 to me a good thing. It also seems as if we ought to start this 

 ball rolling at this time. It will be a year before we reassemble 

 and if a thing is worth doing, it is worth beginning now. Why 

 can't we have a committee appointed to take this thing in hand? 

 There may be influential members in this Association that have 

 time and experience enough to start one in their own neighbor- 

 hood if they didn't have to bear all the financial expense. I be- 

 lieve this Association can very well afford to pay for all the 

 blanks and stationery that would be needed in conducting as many 

 of these test associations as may be formed here this coming 

 year, Therefore I move tbat a committee of three be appointed 



