50 Thibtt-Fifth Annual Report of the 



That Auxiliary has aided the Association so that today the Ver- 

 mont Dairymen's Association is the leading dairymen's association 

 in the country. 



We must remember that in Vermont, without any discredit 

 to any one who may be present from another state, that Ver- 

 mont makes more butter to the acre than any other state in the 

 union. With this Association to aid it and to protect it and with 

 these experts from Boston to come up and tell us who makes 

 the best butter, there is no reason why we should not coHtinue 

 to do so. We make butter, it is something Vermont takes pride 

 in because there is something about Vermont that aids us ; with 

 our machinery and the best methods that can be used to make 

 the best butter. It is something we should take pride in, and 

 the Woman's Auxiliary has more to do with it than the men 

 have. 



Why. my friends, it is worth the ambition of a life time to 

 be invited to speak to a Woman's Auxiliary like this. I am very 

 glad indeed to be here to-night, if I may say one word longer in 

 this line, to see these nice ladies before me and I almost feel like 

 the old man in the recitation, and I do think this matter of fixing 

 up the barn at the expense of the house is something that should 

 receive our attention. I know one county in Vermont with 

 its farms and homesteads, and it is a grand butter county, but 

 there they will spend fifty dollars on the barn where they will 

 five in the house. That is all right in its way because that is the 

 fashion in the county. There are other counties perhaps that 

 gG too far the other way. It is well to think yourself kings be- 

 cause you are the owners of the soil but w;e must remember the 

 best part of the family is in the house and we should have good 

 houses and pleasant surroundings before we have fine barns and 

 more cattle. But we can have both in Vermont. 



We should take more pride in our farm surroundings than 

 we do. We go into the fine villages and cities and we admire 

 what we see. We come to Montpelier and we admire the 

 beautiful streets, the fine houses and the well-kept lawns, but there 

 is no reason why the farmer should not take just as much pride 

 in his surroundings, in his house, his barn and out-buildings, 

 his well mov.m yard. We feel better and are worth more dollars 

 in our estimation if we take more pride in our occupation. We 

 add dignity to our occupation by so doing. 



We come here and discuss matters that are of interest to 

 every one of us ; we come liere with the experts from the city 

 and when we go home we ought to be able to make better butter, 

 to make better sugar and to get more satisfaction out of our own 

 occupation. 



