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54 AlkCA SELECTMEN'S MEETING MAY 26, 1931. A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held at the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building at 7:30 P.M. Messrs. Trask, Custance, Blake, Shannon and Gilereast were present. The Supt. of Public Works and the Clerk were also present. D n Mr. Robert L. Ryder came before the Board in reference to his letter that he did not believe the Board understood the purpose of his application. He stated that what he wanted was a permit to keep 500 pigs inside of the brood house. He stated that he had informed three or four members of the Board R. L. Ryder what he wanted to do and invited them to come up re pig and to show them, but nobody had been there. They application. intended to keep these pigs on milk and by-products and to feed swill to them only in the winter time. They have an investment of $5000 in the building, and he did not know what it could be used for if not for a brood house. He stated that the Town had won the law suit and they had the right to tell him whether or not he could keep the pigs, but he considered that they were farmers and have been such for the past twenty years. He also stated that 60% of the Town was a farming community. If.the building could be used for anything else, he stated that he would be glad to have any member of the Board advise him for what purpose he could use it. If they have to discontinue the use of the building, they would have to ask that"the Assessors abate the taxes. Mr. Ryder stated that he talked with two members of the Fury, and they informed him that they decided the case on the arguments of the Town Counsel that they were well eno.zgh off and could move their pigs somewhere else. They have moved their pigs off to comply with the decree of the Court. They are now asking that they be allowed to keep 100 brood sows inside of the house, and that they believed that in doing so, they will be more within the law than Swenson Brothers on the State Road. They have a farm within 50 ft. of the State Road and there is an odor from this farm. He stated that there were two small indiscretions by their employees which they admitted in. 'Court and that was the reason that they lost the case. He believed that at the rate the Town was going, it would bk fitre to twenty years before the drainage is taken care of, and for that reason he felt that they were entitled to continue as farmers, and felt thAt his request was reasonable. The Chairman inquired if keeping 500 brood sows would not mean that there would be possibly 1500 at any onetime, and Mr. xyder stated that he would not D n