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Vermont stni£jgled against great obstacles in keeping alive this 

 association ; that men who have now passed along and left us 

 made great personal sacrifices and did a glorious work in help- 

 ing organize the Vermont Dairymen's Association which, as I 

 understand, and I do not suppose it is questioned, is the largest 

 association of the kind in the world. 



Now this Association can remember back in its history and 

 can trace it through all the changes that have been rung in at- 

 tempting to bring it up from the earliest primitive methods to 

 what seems to us today the very perfect system that now ob- 

 tains, and it is recognized and known that through the meetings 

 of this Association,, through its Avork from year to year, through 

 the efforts that have been made that the dairymen of Vermont 

 have been able to keep in the front rank of dairymen in this 

 country, and I am firm in the belief that the excellence of the 

 Vermont dairy product today is very largely due to the instruc- 

 tion and the information and to the impetus that has been given 

 this industry through the meetings of this association. So, in 

 behalf of the Association and of the dairy interests of the State 

 T am glad to say that we are glad to come to our capital city to 

 hold another meeting, believing fully that the knowledge we have 

 got will be sufficient to carry us through another year and keep 

 Vermont as it has been kept in the past, in the front rank of the 

 dairy business of this country, both in the excellence of its 

 product and in the abundance as well. 



(Applause.) 



President Bruce. We will now listen to the report of the 

 Secretary. 



F. L. Davis, Secretary, said: — Mr. President, ladies and 

 gentlemen of the Vermont Dairymen's Association, the follow- 

 ing shows the expense and financial standing of our Association : 



Expended as follows : 



W. D. Hoard, services as speaker $ 141 12 



H. C. Adams, services as speaker 100 00 



J- W. Decker, services as speaker 73 55 



( )rrin Bent, for scoring butter 35 00 



O. L. Cushman, for scoring butter 35 00 



Anna M. Dodge 27 00 



Van Ness House i tq 35 



]\T. A. Adams 12 17 



W. E. Perkins .' .' ; 18 20 



W. H. Harrington 17 40 



W. M. Adams. 18 44 



C. J Bell, Secretary State Board Ag 2c; 00 



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