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want to give you all the instructions possible, and have made 

 arrangements whereby Professor McKay will take you through 

 the butter-room in classes the same as he did last year. To- 

 morrow morning we will commence the classes, and, owing to 

 the fact that there are more buttermakers exhibiting than a year 

 ago, the classes will be larger. Another thing, this year we 

 have admitted the secretaries and managers of the creameries. 

 We believed if they could get in there with their buttermakers 

 and could be shown that the defects were not the fault of the 

 buttermaker, it might be an incentive for the secretary to go 

 home and take the matter up with the patrons and help in that 

 way. 



Now, from the fact that we are going to tell you the scores 

 we do not want you to go home. You will remember we used 

 to keep those scores back so as to make you stay. Now we put 

 you on your honor and expect you to stay. There is one thing 

 we appreciate, and that is that the intensely cold weather per- 

 haps makes it imperative for some of you to go home earlier 

 than otherwise would be the case. But we want you to stay 

 through the sessions, because we guarantee the programme will 

 please you. 



Our constitution provides for the election of officers tomorrow, 

 the middle day of the meeting. It will be held at the Wilson 

 Opera House and I hope we will have a larger attendance than 

 we have here to night. We also have one paper on for tomorrow 

 morning. 



After the secretary, Mr. Kieffer, has read the scores you may 

 consider yourselves adjourned. 



