Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-15
VERMONT MERlNo SHEEP-BREEpERs'
ASSOCIATION.
ITS TENTH ANNUAL MEETING-TIIE RE-
PORTS AND PROCEEDINGS.

was held at the town hall in Middlebury
on Wednesday of This week. Owing no
doubt very largely to the severity of the
weather, the attendance was not up to
that of previous years; but there was
good representation of the breeders of
the county present.
The meeting was called to order by
the president, Samuel James of Wcy-
bridge, at II 20 o'clock.
Secretary Chapman read his report, as
follows:
THE sECRETARY's REPORT.
During the past year IS new members have
been added to the rolls of the association.
Fifty. six members have been suspended by
The committee on pedigrees and IA have with.
drawn, leaving the present number 1926.
There have been IS new applications to have
nocks recorded Ofthose awaiting examina-
tion at the beginning of the year, nearly 100
have been accepted by the secretary or the
committee on pedigrccs. a number have
been rejected, leaving a small number of the
old applications undecided; but n much small
Ter number of the latter than for number of
years.
The evidence accumulates that IA large num-
Der of our members pay little or no heed to
tie ruie requiiins 'leiii W NeeP ~ e'eiiia'i'
record of their locks, and very little to other
rules requiring them to report sales within
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those years, seem to thlnk they shoulu nave
been recorded somehow whether they were
over 200 members nave not returned their
lambs for lSS5.
The report of the auditors will show that the
expenses during the past year have been
greater than the receipts by about $500, which
raises the question whether 1t was wise to re
mt the collection OF the membership fee in a
year in which the association was preparing
TO publish volume. There can be no qucs
ton about the necessity OF collecting the
membership fee for the current year if the
third volume is to he printed and published
so long as the association has collected only
three dollars of the sixteen due from mem
pers for the last elght years, IL VIII hardly be
gust to consider 1t burtlensome to collect this
especially us members VIII probably vote
with great unaniinity to give themselves each
copy OF the third volume as soon as issued
"a book that Will cost the association rs
much as the membership fee and be worth in
trinsicaliy much more.
The manuscript of the third volume is sc
nearly completed that theiwork is ready to 70
to the press. The hocks not yet fully com
pleted can be ready as fast as those fully pre-
pared are printed provided members furnlsl
the Information ana corrections needed IL
complete portion OF them without needless
delhy All would nave been completed by
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asked for been furnished promptly
desire To call attention to the great i'm
porlahce OF members shearln@ their Des
shccp IN Such accordance with kule - as VII
increase the records OF the heavy sheannt
shcep 10 De recorded under mat rule othel
states ana associations are doing all they
can TO excel us IN such records ana II we dt
not take the trouble to make the best RECORD
we can under the rules provided by This asso
cation we must expect to lose the prestige
we have enjoyed of having the largest mum
Der oil neaVy Sheaing sheep
,ha $50, a,,,, '' ~ n,a'i 10 " s" ., n w.,
Aeeces TO make nm exhibits Of wool if W,
should be called upon to do so-not the light
est ana finest but some of the heaviest fleece
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with Irvine. but saved loosely in broad an
boxes and kept free from dirt and dust 1t i