The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-07-24
BANKERS PAY TRIB-
UTE TO THE COW

Hood River apple growers discussed
the dairy question during the past
spring with as much interest as any
other subject of the day. MANY trib-
utes were paid 10 the COW. and il
seemed to be the consensus of eonelu-
sion that limited diversified farming.
and especially the increase of dairying.
would be beneficial step for all con.
cerned.
However, one Of the most beautiful
/ tributes ever paid 70 the mild eyed
"Flossies Of the Meadows" appears as
follows in the July number of the Con-
fidential Banker. a Portland publica.
tion:
ION the banker more than anyone
else rests the responsibility for the
development of the great northwest
country. Nothing will so quickly and
permanently contribute to this noble
cause than for each banker to urge and
encourage the farmers in his commun-
ity to increase their daily herds. Its
surprising to know the large and
steady monthly income a few good
cows, properly cared for, will produce.
Ii is not enough for a farmer to keep
cows to merely supply his own family.
Every farmer should organize and sys-
tematize a regular dairy department.
If were a country banker, | would
start the dairy ball rolling, by not only
suggesting, but urging my farmer
patrons and friends to buy some cows,
| would offer valuable prize to the
farmer producing the biggest actual
results from a certain number of cows.
If they were without the necessary
amount of capital to buy few cows, !
would loan them the money. would
feel that | could not possibly contrib
ute to cause that would have a more
beneficial effect on my community and |
be productive of greater thrift and |
prosperity in which all would necessar-
lily participate. Let me quote the |
words of Col. F. NJ Woods, of Lincoln, |
Nebraska, which | consider a most |
beautiful and glowing tribute to the
COW, and tells magnificent story:
=" Grand and noble brute Of all |
the animal friends of man, she is the |
greatest. To her we owe the most. |
Examine into all the different channels
of commerce into which she enters and |
note the result should she be blotted
out. A Sunday stiffness would then
pervade the great stock yards indus
tries of our large cities, and grass
would grow in our streets. Fifty per
cent at least of the trains of freight
that now plow the continent from
ocean to ocean would be sidetracked,
for then there would be nothing for
them to do. Fifty per cent of the la
b0rers would draw no pay on Saturday
night. Our tables would be bare of
the greatest luXuries with which they
are now covered. Oh, you who would
abuse the COW, wish | could, as you
are about to sit down to your MONDAY
meal, slip up and remove from your
table what the old COW has placed
thereon. I'd take the cup of milk
that's waiting by the baby's chair; 10
take the cream, the cheese, the butter,
the custard pie, the cream biscuit, tht
steak, the smoking roast of beef and
leave you to make meal of potatoes,
beets, pickles and toothpicks.
It's the self same cow that has
made the western plains to blossom
(tinanciallly) like the rose; and were
it not for HER they would revert to
the Indians from whence they came.
None others like the COW There
is not thing from the nose to the tail
but that is utilized for the use of man.
We use her horns to comb our hair, her
skins upon our feet, her hair keeps our
plaster upon our walls, her hoofs make
glue, her tail makes soup, she gives
our milk, our cream, our cheese and
our butter, and her flesh lis the great
meat of our nation her blood is useu
to make our sugar white, and hen
bones are ground to fertilze our soils,
and even her paunch she herself has
put through the first chemical process
necessary for the production of the
best white cardboard paper, and now
hey have discovered that such paper
,an be made into the finest quality of
false teeth.
" No other animal works for man
both day and night. BY day she gath
ers food and when asleep at night she
brings it back to rechew and convert
nto all the things of which | speak.
She has gone with man from Ply
mouth Rock to the setting sun. 1t was
Ter sons that turned the first sod in the |
ettler's clearing; it was her sons that
rev the prairie schooner for the
turdy pioneers as, inch by inch, they
ought to prove that Westward the
tar of empire takes its way. ~, and
he old COW grazed along behind and
When the days march was done she
anne and gave the milk to fill the :
nother's breast to feed the sucking !
abe that was, perchanee, to become q
he future rule of his county. Who
ays that much of what we are we do !
ot owe to mans best friend, the COW?
'reat her kindly, gently, for without :
er words fail me to describe. F."