Annual Report (Volume 43) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: dairy business that my fellow members consider unjust. Also in the condemning of the cattle for tubercular trouble and the prices paid for them. Oftentimes it is claimed that they cannot be condemned for they show very little trouble. And then when they are killed they are carried away and sold for food in the cities. The farmers have been very much agitated about this matter. Meetings have been held, and our meetings have been very largely taken up by these subjects and heated discussions have taken place on them. The dairying in Union county is fast being blotted out. At a recent meeting, Mr. Beebe, known as Dean Beebe, called Dean Beebe by Judge Collins, our Chairman, Mr. Beebe, whom Mr. DeCbu of South Jersey mentioned in connection with such names as Dr. Ward, and P. T. Quinn, men who have been connected with agricultural affairs in our State long before I was ever able to talk about them, Mr. Beebe, past eighty years of age, an old gray-haired man, he brought a resolution before the meeting asking for relief and condemning the conditions as they are in Union county. I mentioned our visit to the home of our worthy President, whom we all like, and the courtesy shown and the warm hospitality, and of inspecting the dairy buildings and the methods used in the production of milk in a modern way, and I think that our men largely looked upon that with gratification. I have no resolution to lay before the Board, but the dairymen of Union county thought it just as well to place their grievances before this meeting, that is all. President Cox?We will now take up the regular order of business. "Lightning Rods, their Value as a Protection Against Fire," by Prof. J. Warren Smith, of the U. S. Weather Bureau. You had the pleasure of listening yesterday to Prof. Smith on the matt...