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Our sugarmaking is something Vermont should take more 

 pride in than she does. There is something about Vermont that 

 permits her to make better sugar than any other state in the 

 union. There is nothing to equal her. We should foster that 

 industry the best we can. 



The farmers' wives are doing more for the prosperity of 

 Vermont than are some of us old men, in the matter of being 

 careful in our attempts to do our very best. 



We take less pride sometimes than we should. The women- 

 folks we must admit always take pride in good house keeping; 

 the surroundings of the house should be improved as I have 

 said and then there is the machinery! Most farmers think they 

 must have all the improved machinery and it does seem as 

 though house keeping might be made easier than it once was, but 

 there is something about the ladies' dispositions that seems al- 

 ways to keep them busy. A few years ago after the sewing 

 machine was invented we thought there would be no more sewing 

 to do, but they have managed to put more yards of cloth into 

 a dress, and to take more stitches in the making than there ever 

 was before so there seems to be just as much sewing to be done 

 as there ever was. 



But there should be some way whereby the ladies on the 

 farm should enjoy this grand old State of Vermont more than 

 they do, and although we do have to work so hard we can if we 

 will, manage our business so we can get more of that enjoy- 

 ment and have our families get more enjoyment as we go along 

 or we never will get it. 



With our good roads, our high mountains and our beautiful 

 rivers, we can get our health and keep it as well as anybody else 

 in the world, and the ladies and children too should come out to 

 the meetings of this Association and to the Grange meetings 

 and interest themselves in them. 



Vermont takes pride in her ladies ; she takes pride in her 

 mountains, in her lakes and rivers! Let us enjoy things as we 

 go along. The boys and girls who are growing up on the farm 

 today and who will go out into all the rest of the world should 

 be rightly brought up to appreciate their surroundings. 



That leads me to think of just one word more: Since I 

 have been Governor of Vermont I have had no end of letters 

 from men confined in the penal institutions of our State asking 

 tf» be let out for one cause and another, and about all the men 

 that have said anything about their bringing up, and where they 

 have given rum as the cause of their downfall they have said 

 they were boys that were not brought up as they should be, in 

 some cases they had lost their father or their mother. Now 

 there is one lesson that must be learned from that, that is that 



