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Davis: — A good deal more than half. I seriously question 

 the desirability of putting the standard above 92. If I was go- 

 ing to raise it at all I would not but one point ; and I do not 

 know as I am in favor of raising it one point. It makes quite 

 a difference to some. If they do not get but one point they get 

 $1.25 or $1.50 and they feel that they are getting what their 

 butter was worth and some more. 



Mr. Northup :— I agree with Mr. Davis. It is pretty hard to 

 get butter to score above 90. I think it is a good scheme to 

 keep it down to a scale where all the creameries and butter 

 makers can get a little share. I do not think it is well to put it 

 up where only a few would get any benefit from it. 



Mr. Hitchcock : — Seems to me there should be a little com- 

 petition in these matters. If you put the standard up to 92 

 probably two-thirds of the people who bring butter here will 

 get something out of it. So far as the difficulty in making 

 good butter in winter is concerned, probably two-thirds of those 

 who send butter here succeed in making butter good enough 

 tn share in the premium. 



Mr. Hitchcock's motion which had been seconded was then 

 put to vote and the vote to raise the standard from 90 to 92 

 was defeated, while the Association retains the present system. 



Adjourned. 



Wednesday evening, Jan. 11, 1905. 



The annual banquet of the Vermont State Dairymen's Asso- 

 ciation was held in Armory Hall. Bascomb Brothers of Mont- 

 pelier, caterers, served a fine banquet, plates being laid for 400 

 guests and all seats being taken. Wilder's orchestra of eight 

 pieces was in attendance and rendered excellent music, as they 

 always do. 



Those present were called to order at eight o'clock by Presi- 

 dent Bruce, who introduced Mr. E. A. Nutt of Montpelier as 

 toast master. 



After a selection by the orchestra Mr. Nutt gracefully in- 

 troduced Governor C. J. Bell of Walden, who responded most 

 earnestly to the toast "Vermont." Senator W. A. Lord of 

 Montpelier was next introduced, who responded to "The Legis- 

 lature of 1904." 



The toast "The University of Vermont and State Agricul- 

 tural College" was responded to by Prof. J. L. Hills of Bur- 

 lington. 



H. D. Hopkins of Montpelier, a member of Wild,er's Or- 

 chestra, gave a dialect reading, which was followed by a selec- 

 tion by the orchestra with cornet solo by Karl Forsell. 



