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the idea of doing more missionary work. I would like to have 

 this matter discussed here. 



Kinney : This is a very important matter, whether this 

 Society, after the fine start it has gotten, should go about, mov- 

 ing from town to town, over the state for our annual meeting. 

 The annual meeting is positive ; something that we know is 

 coming each year; and the question is whether we will leave 

 the matter to be decided by the Secretary, who has his shoulders 

 already burdened, or by the executive committee, or shall we 

 here now, as a Society, say where the permanent home shall be, 

 or whether we shall have one or not. The Society in Massa- 

 chusetts, which is the largest in the country, has a permanent 

 home ; they are very wealthy and have a whole block of their 

 own property, which they built, and they have meetings all 

 through the season. We don't expect this, but we do think, 

 some of us, that if we had a regular meeting place we would 

 become so accustomed to coming together in that place, that we 

 would be more and better able to bring our exhibits and more 

 liable to bring more people with us and we would constantly 

 grow better. I am very much in favor of this Society establish- 

 ing itself in some town or city in Vermont, and I think Bur- 

 lington is the most easy to reach for the most of us without a 

 change of cars. 



Aitkin : I can't quite agree with Mr. Kinney on that sub- 

 ject, because we have a very good object lesson in the Dairy- 

 men's Association ; that Society has held annual meetings for a 

 great many years and has had no settled home. It is taken 

 from one section of the state to another each year, and in that 

 way we think we are doing the most good, and the result is 

 that we get exhibits from a greater number than if we held it 

 in one stated place. I think the best way is to leave the matter 

 as it now is. 



Kinney : There is a vast difference between an exhibition 

 of butter and an exhibition of apples, and the shipping of same. 

 The exhibits of butter largely are from co-operative institutions 

 while exhibits of apples are mainly from small growers, per- 

 haps growing not over lOO barrels a year ; these are the men that 

 have got to make these exhibits ; the small men who have the 

 big apples. I don't think the argument will hold good. 



Terrill : I think Mr. Kinney is partly right, the Dairymen's 

 Association travels from one place to another and other societies 

 in other states do the same. If we want the meetings at Burling- 

 ton we can have them there ; we don't need to have a fixed rule ; 

 if that is the best place, they can be held there ; we don't get 

 the audiences in larger places that we get in the smaller ones. 

 While we couldn't give you as large an apple exhibit at my 



