152 THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



WOMAN'S AUXILIARY. 



A special meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary was held in 

 the Brooks House parlors Wednesday, January 10, at 1.30 p. m. 



Ex-Gov Hoard of Wisconsin spoke for a few minutes upou 

 the value of women as an aid to successful business enter- 

 prises, especially those connected with the farm and home life 

 and urged strongly the proper education of the girls and boys. 



president's address. 



Mrs. Mary A. Smith, Morrisville. 



We are privileged to meet again as the Woman's Auxiliary 

 to the Vermont Dairymen's Association. We are glad to re- 

 new the acquaintance of so many of our members and it also 

 gives us pleasure to see so many whom we have not met 

 before. 



Perhaps you are not all familiar with the object of the 

 Woman's Auxiliary. To such we say, it is to do the Vermont 

 women good by keeping them in touch with the best methods 

 in domestic science, learning from each other, and from those 

 whose aid we are fortunate in obtaining, helpful, profitable 

 ways of making the farmer's home what it should be, the cen- 

 ter of prosperity and happiness. 



With the advent of the creameries, and the ways of caring 

 for the product of the dairy by means of machinery, the farm- 

 er's wife is relieved of much care and work that a few years 

 ago fell to her lot. But this should not lessen her interest in 

 the meetings of the State Dairymen's Association, for if we 

 have good dairying and good farming we should also have 

 good home making. And how can this be unless our women 

 grasp every opportunity for improvement and inspiration. 

 There is no greater need for all classes today than a develop- 

 ing of the highest conception of the family home ; and does 

 not the farm home possess ability to come nearer the ideal 

 than any other? 



It is true that within our remembrance agriculture had lost 

 its dignity and prestige, and the farmer himself habituallv 

 placed a very low estimate upon his own and his neighbor's 

 worth. But we are glad that a change has come and today a 

 tiller of the soil may, if he will, take his rightful place 

 among men without fear of ridicule or censure. There is no 



