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Resolved, That a copy of so much of these resolutions as 

 relates to public affairs be sent each member of the Vermont 

 delegation in Congress by the Secretary of this Association. 



JOSIAH GROUT, 

 A. J. CROFT, 

 C. H. EDDY, 



Committee on Resolutions. 



The following resolutions were' presented by Prof. J. L. 

 Hills of Burlington : 



Since the Association last met there has passed to his re- 

 ward one who stood in the eyes of the world as the official repre- 

 sentative of the dairying interests of the country. 



The late Major Henry E. Alvord. a product of a New Eng- 

 land farm, educated in a Vermont College, a soldier of the Civil 

 War and officer in the regular anny, a teacher of agriculture and 

 president of two agricultural colleges, and for the past ten years 

 chief of the dairy division of the National Department of Agri- 

 culture, he has been for a generation a leader of agricultural 

 thought and a power in the advancement of dairy interests. He 

 fell at the post of duty, serving the department of the interests 

 of dairying, at the St. Louis Exposition. An able executive, in- 

 cisive speaker, keen investigator, ready writer and withal a most 

 charming and courteous gentleman, he will be missed and long 

 remembered wherever dairymen meet together. 



Therefore be it Resolved. That the Vermont Dairymen's As- 

 sociation hereby expresses its sense of loss in Major Alvord's 

 death, that it instructs its secretary so to inform the family of the 

 deceased and that these resolutions appear in the report of this 

 meeting. 



The president : — You have heard the report of your Com- 

 mittee on resolutions. What will you do with the report? 



Motion being made and seconded, put to vote the resolutions 

 were accepted and adopted. 



The president : — Is there any further business that should 

 come before this meeting? 



Mr. Eddy : — This is not particularly a matter of business, 

 but it is a matter that pertains to the dairy interests of the State 

 of Vermont. As the speaker said this morning, I believe in the 

 organization of the creamerymen of the State of Vermont. I 

 believe they ought to come together as an organization ; I believe 

 it is not only for our own interests but for the interests of the 

 farmers of the State of Vermont for us to do it. I do not be- 

 lieve, as I told you yesterday, that Mr. A. with the poor cream 

 ought to receive the same compensation as INIr. B. with good 

 cream, or Mr. C. witli good cream. I believe we ought to take 



