Vermont Dairymen's Association. 47 



MEETING OF THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY. 



Mrs. Bruce. — Ladies and Gentlemen: — 



Eleven years ago tomorrow the Woman's Auxiliary of this 

 Association was organized in the parlors of the Van Ness House. 

 The ladies have been doing their work well, constantly increas- 

 ing in membership, constantly adding interest to our meetings, 

 constantly helping us throughout the year that we might have 

 larger attendance at the next meeting, that we might improve 

 all that was improvable about our homes, our creameries and our 

 factories. And this evening is to be the Ladies' evening. I 

 now have the pleasure of introducing to you the President of the 

 Woman's Auxiliary, Mrs. Etta LePage, of Barre. 



MRS. ETTA LEPAGE. 



"Once more the annual convention of the Dairy- 

 men's Association calls us to this beautiful Queen City, 

 — a city closely identified with the dairy and agricultural in- 

 terests of our State. Here are located our State Agricultural 

 College and the Experiment Station. Here the sessions of the 

 dairy school were held^for twelve years, until wholly inadequate 

 accommodations compelled their suspension. It is expected that 

 convenient c^uarters will be provided in the agricultural building 

 to be erected here, and that the school will take a new lease of 

 life. Dairying, the leading industry of our State, demands as 

 thorough an education as any other business. The farmer is 

 fast taking his proper place in the world, and his occupation is 

 no longer looked upon as degrading. It is a fact that the modern 

 world has been molded largely by men who learned their first 

 lessons in life by a farmer's fireside. In all callings and profes- 

 sions, the great names are those of the country bred. Real suc- 

 cess consists simply in making the most of one's self, and happy 

 is he who, possessing a fraction of the earth, fulfills his mission 

 as a farmer. 



We have with us this evening, the Governor of our State, 

 and he is a typical Vermont farmer. I take great pleasure in 

 introducing to you Governor Bell." 



(Applause.) 



Governor Bell said: 



