THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 315 



International Harvester Co 10.00 



Sharpies Separator Co. (West Chester, Pa.) 9.80 



C. M. Waite (returned) 2.75 



Total $924.04 



In order to advertise the Marengo meeting we had printed 

 and circulated 1,000 programs, 1,000 entry blanks and 1,000 

 posters. These were sent to the creameries and milk factories 

 of the state and to members of the association, with the request 

 that they put up the posters in conspicuous places and hand 

 the programs to others who might be interested after they had 

 familiarized themselves with its contents. 



We also, for six weeks prior to the convention got out a 

 news letter in regard to the coming meeting each week and sent 

 it to from 75 to 100 papers throughout the state. This ex- 

 tensive advertising increased the postage expense of the year, 

 but it doubtless gave many a knowledge of what the association 

 was doing which they would otherwise not have had. 



' State Fair Meeting. 



The extra work done by the association last year also in- 

 creased the expenses. We held six auxiliary meetings during 

 the year. The first was at the state fair, where the association 

 had a dairy tent as a meeting place for dairymen. We also did 

 what we could to encourage the exhibiting of butter and milk 

 in the dairy building at the fair and in encouraging the dairy 

 cattle exhibition. Following the custom of several years, the 

 dairymen's association offered special prizes in different dairy 

 cattle classes, these prizes consisting of cash and gold medals. 

 Winners of the cash prizes were : 



F. P. Knowles, Auburn, Mass., Holstein-Friesian cow, 3 or over $ 5.00 



Pierson Stock Farm, Hadley, Mich. H. F. heifer under 3 5.00 



Thos. W. Lawson Co. Farm, Scituate, Mass., Jersey cow, 3 or over. . 5.00 



J. F. Latimer, Abingdon, 111., Jersey heifer, under 3 5.00 



W. P. Schanck, Avon, N. Y., Ayrshire cow, 3 or over 5.00 



Geo. H. McFadden, Bryn Mawr, Pa., Ayrshire heifer, under 3 5.00 



Springdale Breeding Co., Indianapolis, Ind., brown Swiss cow, 3 



or over 5.00 



