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present month of January every owner of dogs shall apply to the 

 town clerk, and register his dog, with the discription, and pay a 

 fee of two dollars, and the town clerk then issues to him. a tag with 

 a number on it corresponding wuth the one entered into the book, 

 and every dog that is not so recorded during this present month of 

 January has no standing, and the owner who shall fail to register 

 his dog is guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be imprisoned. 



MR. NELSON: I want to say to Brother Blyholder that the res- 

 olution I have referred to, makes it obligatory upon the constables 

 to report that they have killed all dogs found in their bailiwick 

 without tags. 



MR. VAN ALSTYNE: I might add that if a man fails to register 

 his dog, he is liable to imprisonment, and his dog is killed. Now, 

 the trouble in regard to having the constable kill the dog, is that 

 the constable is generally a candidate for re-election, and does not 

 care to go around killing his neighbor's dogs. 



The CHAIRMAN: Why not let anybody do the killing, instead 

 of forcing the constable to do it? 



The SECRETARY: I move that a committee of three be appointed 

 with Brother Clark as Chairman, to formulate a bill to be presented 

 to the Legislative Committee for presentation to the Legislature. 



Motion seconded and agreed to. 



The CHAIRMAN: I will appoint on that committee Messrs. Clark, 

 Blyholder and Critchfield. 



The Committee appointed to await on the Governor reports pro- 

 gress. The Governor is very busy, and his whole time will be taken 

 up to-day, but he has signified his willingness to be with us to- 

 morrow morning at 10 o'clock. 



The CHAIRMAN: We will hear from Mr. Van Alstyne on 

 "Building up a Dairy Herd." 



The following is the address: 



BUILDING UP A DAIRY HERD. 



By Mr. Kdwakd Van Alsttnk, Denmark, N. T. 



I want to talk to you in a very practical way, to, I presume, a 

 company of very practical men. I suppose the aim of this address 

 is that we may obtain a more profitable cow in our dairy. And in 

 what I have to say to-day, as well as to-morrow, I wish you to 

 understand that it is not to the wealthy man, the man with unlimited 



