Vermont Dairymen's Association. 49 



Tuesday evening, Jan. ii, 1905. 



Woman's Auxiliary to the Yermont Dairymen's Association. 

 Called to order at 7:30 P. M. by President Bruce. Music was 

 then furnished by Wilder's orchestra of Montpelier. 



President Bruce then said : — I b^elieve it is a pleasure to the 

 Vermont Dairymen's Association to have the ladies with us in 

 our meetings, and now in this meeting of theirs we are very glad 

 to help them in any way we can. 



I now have the pleasure of introducing to you the Presi- 

 dent of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Vermont Dairymen's 

 Association, Mrs. Le Page of Barre. 



Mrs. Le Page : — Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen : We 

 are happy to meet once more in this fair city now nearirtg its 

 one hundredth anniversary as the capital of our State. 



Great indeed are the changes the years of that cycle have 

 brought to us. Agriculture has kept pace in the march of im- 

 provement and has changed from a primitive to a scientific oc- 

 cupation which enables the farmer to occupy as prominent a 

 place as h,e does today. 



The agricultural societies recognize the equality of the 

 sexes and permit woman's companionship in their work, and 

 to them is due the success of the Woman's Auxiliary to the 

 Vermont Dairymen's Association, which was organized eleven 

 years ago and which has had one evening of each yearly session 

 set apart for its use. It is in accordance with that custom that 

 we are gathered here this evening when we feel sure that we 

 can entertain you. The first upon our program is a reading 

 by Mrs. Kate E. Terrill of Montpelier. 



After a reading by Mrs. Terrill, Mrs. Le Page further said: 



I have the honor to introduce to you his excellency, Gov- 

 ernor Charles J. Bell of Walden, who will now speak to you. 



Governor Bell : — Mrs. President, my friends : It gives me 

 great pleasure to come before you this evening at this Woman's 

 meeting. 



I remember years ago when I first went to the dairymen's 

 association it so happened that one of the officers of the associa- 

 tion brought his wife to the meeting and it was so remarkable an 

 incident that the papers remarked about one man being so liberal 

 as to bring his wife to a dairyman's meeting. 



Times have changed somewhat. The president said to- 

 night that they were very glad to be present at the meeting of 

 the Dairyman's Auxiliary, and I want to say to the President of 

 this Auxiliary that the Dairymen's Association would not have 

 jbcen alive today if it had not been for the Woman's Auxiliary. 



