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ADDRESS. 



MRS. HOLMES, Galva, III. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, and especially my Dairy 



Brothers : 



When Max O'Rell was in our country two or three 

 years ago, he" made a hasty trip through the country 

 and went back to France, and he said he had been in 

 America and it was an immense place. He said he 

 found that we had 60,000,000 people, and nearly all of 

 them were colonels. I thought this afternoon, as I sat 

 there in the first dairy meeting that I have ever at- 

 tended, that if he had been here and heard your earn- 

 est words and discussions, and saw how scientifically 

 you were treating these questions, if he could also visit 

 St. Louis to-day and see so many industrial societies 

 that have met there and are discussing great questions 

 to-day and to-night, he would not go back and say 

 that the majority of us were colonels, but that he 

 had never touched the industrial part of this country 

 in his hasty trip through it; talking from the plat- 

 form, being entertained at the clubs, he knew nothing 

 of the industrial interests of our country. I must say 

 that I felt proud this afternoon. I had known only 

 through the newspaper of this association. I went 

 back in memory to my New York dairy work, and 

 I remembered when my mother, Avho was a Boston 

 lady, and who came to Illinois many years ago when 

 the country was new, I remembered hearing her say 

 that she did her first churning with a spoon and a 

 pitcher. 



I remember also that as I grew to be a girl, and my 



