FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 1 79 



Society at its organization, and I have paid in fifteen dollars 

 already, and I shall pay in more before I quit, and the object 

 at the time of this Society's foundation was to make it a live 

 society, to make that dollar continually coming in, and I be- 

 heve when we adopt the life membership plan we shut that off, 

 and I certainly think that ten dollars is too small ; it shouldn't 

 be less than twenty or twenty-five dollars, if a life member- 

 ship is allowed at all. If you make it twenty-five dollars, so 

 that the interest at the current rates would cover the dollar, 

 it is all right. 



Mr. Ives : I would suggest that those over seventy years 

 old be let in on ten dollars, and those over forty pay twenty- 

 five dollars. 



Mr. Butler: I would move as an amendment that the 

 life membership fee be twenty-five dollars, instead of ten. 



Seconded. 



A Member: The Dairymen's Association receive a life 

 member by paying five dollars, and I think ten dollars is a 

 very liberal price for life membership, and I believe the 

 Society will be much better off, as has been stated by some of 

 the members, ten years from now. 



Upon being put to vote, the amendment to make the life 

 membership fee twenty-five dollars, instead of ten, was de- 

 feated. 



Secretary then read the second section of the amendment 

 as follows : "Any person may become a Hfe member of this 

 Society by the payment of the sum of ten dollars at one time. 

 All money received from such memberships to form a perma- 

 nent invested fund of the Society." This section was then 

 adopted by a two-thirds vote of the members present. 



The proposed addition to the By-Laws, which read as fol- 

 lows : "All members whose memberships expire under Article 

 III. of the Constitution, shall be duly notified of the fact be- 

 fore their names are dropped from the roll," was then put to 

 vote and unanimously carried. The following resolution, as 

 presented in the committee's report, was adopted : 



Resolved, That each member of the Society shall, during the 

 coming year, constitute himself a committee to procure at 



