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to bear. We have had in mind the intelligent, enterprising 
farmer with small means and a mortgage on the farm per¬ 
haps, who is thinking of going into the dairy business not 
for the aesthetics of it, but for the last dollar it will pay. I 
will add nothing more except to say that the product, when 
well made and neatly finished for the market, is only to be 
handled on sound business principles, and a fair profit is 
likely to be the result. 
At the conclusion of the paper the president then asked 
if the chairman of the legislative committee was ready to^ 
make a report. Hon. G. P. Lord, the chairman, replied that 
they had no report to make. 
Lawrence moved that the present legislative committee 
be reappointed for another year. After the adding of 
several names, making the committe stand a6 follows, the 
motion was carried. 
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Legislative Committee G. P. Lord, M. H. Thomp¬ 
son, Gen. Parsons, H. W. Meade, Jos. Tefft, C. H. Larkin 
J. R. McLean, E. C. Lovell. 
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M. H. Underwood : Suggested that the committee 
make it their duty to see to the enforcing of the laws con¬ 
cerning butter and cheese adulterations. 
Dr. Tefft : Was asked what the real duty' of the 
committee was, and he stated that it was to endeavor to 
have the association recognized and aided by the state and 
to get an experimental dairy station established. 
Mr. Lovell: Said he could give them some reasons 
who the committee did not succeed when at Springfield 
last Winter. He had the honor of introducing - the com- 
mittee to the special committee appointed by the legislature, 
and was present when they met together. He thought 
