TRANSACTIONS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 1878. LIST OF OFFICERS FOR 1878. President, A. M. FULLER, Meadville. Treasurer, S. B. DICK, Meadville. Recording Secretary, H. COOLEY GREENE, Meadville. Corresponding Secretary, J. M. BIGGER, Cambridge borough. JOHN COLE, M. H. TERRY,. Honorable EASTBURN REEDER, G. W. CARROLL, I. R. HALL, Honorable S. H. FINDLEY, H. CANFIELD, A. H. BATES, D. H. NODINE, Honorable S. E. KINCAID, WILLIAM MORSE, . Vice Presidents. Venango. Waterford. Harmonsburg. . Spring. . Bucks county. New Richmond. CONSTITUTION. (Adopted April 13, 1871.) SECTION 1. This organization shall be called the Pennsylvania State Dairymen's Association. 2. Its purpose shall be to improve and develop the dairy interest of Pennsylvania. 3. Its membership shall consist of such persons as shall pay the sum of one dollar annually, and of honorary members. 4. The payment of five dollars shall constitute a paid up life membership. 5. Its officers shall consist of a President, twenty Vice Presidents, Treasurer, Recording Secretary, and Corresponding Secretary. These, including the first three Vice Presidents, shall constitute the executive board, and shall have the oversight of the affairs of the association, the appointment of its meetings, and all arrangements for the same. 6. The annual meeting, for the election of officers, shall be held on the last Wednesday of each year, at such place as may be designated by the executive board. 7. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep and prepare for publication the transactions of all meetings of the association each current year, embracing such papers as shall be approved by the executive board. The Treasurer shall keep and disburse the funds of the association on the order of the Secretary, countersigned by the President, and to report receipts and expenditures at the annual meeting. It shall be the duty of the Corresponding Secretary to conduct the correspondence, and assist the executive board in such way as they may require. 8. Amendments to this constitution may be made at any annual meeting by a two thirds vote of the members present. INTRODUCTION. The remarkable growth of the dairy industry since 1860 is a matter interesting to all readers of agricultural literature. Within a few years the dairy has taken quiet possession of vast areas of territory from which it had been excluded by natural disqualifications. Poorly watered, and therefore poorly adapted to dairying, the lack of springs has been remedied by the introduction of artesian wells and windmills. Western enterprise has stocked western farms with herds of fine bred dairy cows. Freights have been secured from Chicago at even less rates than from New York, and thus the great West is placed in favorable competition with the older sections of the East. While the finances of our country have been in an unsettled state, and business of every kind has been depressed, the dairy has been the last to |