The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-08-07
THE FAMILY COW
MANS BEST FRIEND
Col. F. NJ. Woods Tribute to the Most
Useful Animal i'm the World.

The following eulOgy was made a
part Of the Shorthorn Record in the
office at Springfield, ILL.,, also in Can
ada. 1t has been printed in five diff
ferent countries and translated to
their language. 1t was used by a
United States senator in a speech in
the senate in speaking against the
Oleomargarine bill
Grand and noble brute, of all mans
animal friend she is the greatest To
her we w the most. Examine into
all the channels of trade into which
she enters and note the result should
she be blotted out. A Sunday still
ness would pervade the great stock
yards of our large cities and grass
would grow in the streets. One
half the freight trains that pillow the
continent from ocean to ocean would
sidetrack, for there would be nothing
for them to do. Fifty per cent of the
employees would draw NJ pay on Sat
urday night and our tables would be
bare of the greatest luxuries with
which they are now loaded. The great
plains of the west that the COW has
made to blossom like the rose would
revert to the Indians from whence
they came and millions of prosperous
homes would be destroyed.
None other like the COW. There is
not a thing from nose to tail but what
is utilized for the use of man. We
use her horns to comb Il hair, her
skin is on our feet and horses packs.
Her hair keeps the plaster on u
walls, her hoofs make glue II her
tail makes soup. She gives us u
cream, our milk, our butter and Our
cheese and her flesh is the meat Of
Ill ,,,tfA,,u IIar h1nn1 fC mead fn mako
our sugar white, her bones when
ground make valuable fertilizer, and
even the contents of her paunch she
has herself put through the first
chemical process for the manufacture
of the best quality of white board
paper and now it has been discovered
that that paper car be made into the
best false teeth. Oh. you who would
abuse the COW, | wish that could for
once take from your table as, you
are about to sit down to the evening
meal all that the COW has placed
] thereon. I'd AXE up the cup of milk
sitting by the baby's chair. I'd take
the cream biscuit, the custard pie.
the cream for coffee, the butter, the
cheese, the smoking roast of beef OF
steak or the sweet corned plate of
Juicy meat. In fact, I'd leave you tc
make your meal upon Irish potatoes
beet pickles and toothpicks.
No other animal works for mar
both day and night by day she gath
ers food and when we are asleep a
night she brings it back to rechew
and manufacture into all the things
of which l speak. She has gone Will
man from Plymouth Rock to the set.
ting sun 1t was her sons that drew
the prairie schooner for the sturdy
pioneer, as inch by inch they fought
to prove that westward the star O
empire takes it way" And the ole
cow grazed along behind and wheI
the days march was done she came
and gave the milk to fill the mother''
breast to feed the sucking babe tina
was perchance to become the future
ruler of his country.
Who says that what we are To ;
great extent we do not W to man:
best friend, the COW? Treat her kind
ly, gently, for without her-word'
fail me to describe.
1t was the cow that made it pos
sible for man to change the grea
American desert into a Ian of happ,
and prosperous omes Wuer sn'
came the buffalo disappeared. the IN
dian tepee gave way to the church
school house and home, and wher'
once the wild wolves howled toda,
children prattle, grass grows, flower.
hloOm and birds sing.