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and William H. Spooner. These men are the Romans at 

 work for the agricultural interests of Massachusetts. 



As the speaker who gave us welcome has well said, the 

 programme is a good one. The lecturers are of more than 

 local reputation, some of them of national reputation ; and 

 the lectures to which the Board of Agriculture invites you 

 to listen are such as we believe no Board need be ashamed 

 of. But you came here to see this programme carried out, 

 to hear these lectures knd to enter into the discussion which 

 will follow them, and it would not be fitting in me to take 

 more of your time. 



Thanking the representative of Framingham for his cor- 

 dial welcome, the people of Framingham for the w^elcome 

 extended through him, and the members of the Middlesex 

 South Agricultural Society for the invitation extended to us, 

 we will proceed with the programme. 



The first lecture is on a subject which touches the farmers 

 of Massachusetts more closely, perhaps, than any other agri- 

 cultural subject of the day, — "The producing and market- 

 ing of milk." Every town in the State is interested in 

 dairying, and every city is interested in dairying, because 

 of its dependence on this branch of agriculture for its very 

 life. 



We have for a lecturer a man who has spent his life in 

 the business, who has made a magnificent success in the pro- 

 duction of milk, and in the last few years has had great 

 success in gathering milk and sending it to the consumer, 

 as the manager of the Springfield Co-operative Milk Asso- 

 ciation. His work is appreciated, I assure you, by the 

 people of Springfield and vicinity. I have the pleasure of 

 introducing to you Mr. Frank B. Allen of Longmeadow. 



