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manufacturing institutions in the world, sending out separators 

 wherever dairying is carried on. There has been a wonderful advance 

 along all those lines, and it is with a great deal of pleasure that I am 

 permit ted to be here to-day, and I look forward with a great deal of 

 interest to the privileges which we shall enjoy al this meeting. 



MR. MARTIN: This Hoard is always glad to renew the acquaint- 

 ance of Brother Orr and I know they will be doubly glad when they 

 learn that his worthy wife is present with us. Mrs. Orr has come 

 along this time to kind of take care of him, and we would highly ap- 

 preciate a word from Mrs. Orr. 



The CHAIR: We shall be glad to hear from the lady, Mis. Orr, of 

 Beaver. 



MRS. ORR: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, This is cer- 

 tainly a great surprise to me, but it is also a great pleasure to feel 

 that I have been so honored as to be called upon to say even one word 

 to this agricultural board, and I thank you. I feel very much like a 

 child again and can hardly realize it at all. I am here to learn from 

 you, but if I can at this time or any other time say or do anything 

 that will in any way promote any true line of the work in which you 

 are engaged, I am at your service. 



I was so delighted to see these — our fathers shall I say — sitting 

 near me here, rise and speak to us and tell us their experiences. 

 How delightful are the recollections they have in these days when 

 they feel that in a certain way they are laying down active service; 

 and yet when they rise and speak to us so beautifully and so well 

 such words as they have to-day, are they not now doing their greatest 

 service? And I want to say just here, to speak what I truly believe, 

 that we so often in life in the hurry and the bustle and the noise that 

 we make, lose sight of the fact that perhaps, after all, when our more 

 active life ceases, we may be speaking and doing and exhibiting our 

 very greatest work when we step out of active service. I have been 

 brought to think of that line particularly recently by the death of a 

 man in our own community whom we all respected very highly, and 

 yet whose services so frequently were not appreciated. Suddenly he 

 was taken away from us and now we feel that his work is but begun, 

 so our fathers who sit with us perhaps are now doing us their 

 greatest service, while the work that we think we are doing here so 

 well, is perhaps but begun. 



The CHAIR: Is there any other one here who wishes to say a 

 word? If so, we shall be glad to hear from you. You all can talk 

 on some subject; let us spend a little while in that way, if it is your 

 pleasure. 



