Report of Missouri Farmers' Week. 



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Motion to adopt report of committee. 



The business of the conference being finished the motion to ad- 

 journ was carried, and the Missouri Home Makers' Conference for 

 1913 was at an end. 



F. Pearle Mitchell, Secretary. 



Miss Kinney. 



ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT. 



(Miss Alice Kinney, New Franklin, Mo ) 



It is my great privilege to say to you that 

 ever since the conference of last year the mem- 

 bers of the executive board have been looking 

 forward to this meeting, when we should again 

 have the pleasure of greeting the old friends and 

 welcoming the new ones. 



During the interim you have been much in 

 our minds and hearts, for as plans would present 

 themselves to be worked out, we unconsciously 

 turned to you for help — your approval means our 

 success, without which our wheel of progress 

 would not move forward. 



In formulating the program for this conference there was such 

 an abundance of good things to bring you that it was exceedingly 

 difficult to include only the few; some of these have been selected 

 with the hope of eventually creating departments which will take 

 up special lines of work between the annual meetings, in order to 

 give a broader outlook for the home makers and a more systematic 

 working body between conferences. 



May you feel well repaid for the sacrifices some of you doubt- 

 less have made in leaving home and its comfortable fireside, and as 

 you turn homeward we trust you will carry our conference in your 

 hearts and plan to come again next year. 



To Columbia and her citizens we owe much gratitude; every 

 one responded cheerfully to the demands of the program committee 

 and expressed great interest in our success. 



We trust the past year has been well with you, and though 

 possibly many have had fuller and busier lives than ever before, 

 have you not been happier for the fullness? 



You will recall the story of Rip Van Winkle, who refused to 

 accept the duties and responsibilities of life, but in the companion- 



