The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-03

Printed in five different languages.)
Grand and noble brute, of all mans
friends she is the greatest. To her we
owe the most. Examine into all the
channels of trade into which she enters
and note the result should she be blotted
out. A Sunday stiffness would pervade
the great stock yards of our large cities
and grass would grow in the streets.
0ne-half the freight trains that pillow
The continent from ocean to ocean would
side track, for there would be nothing
for them to do. Fifty per cent of the
employees would draw no pay on Satur-
day night and our tables would be bare
of the greatest, 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 pros
porous homes would be destroyed.
None like the COW. There is not a
thing from the nose to tail but what is
utilized for the use of man. We use her
horns to comb our hair, her skin is on
our feet and on our horses backs. Her
hair keeps the plaster on our walls, her
hoof makes glue and her tail makes soup.
She gives us our cream, our milk, our
butter and cheese and her flesh is the
meat of all nations. Her blood is used
to make our sugar white, her bones when
ground make valuable fertilizer, and oven
the contents of her paunch she has her.
self put through the first chemical proc
ess for the manufacture Of the best quail
ity of white board paper and now it has
been discovered that this paper can be
made into the best false teeth. Oh you
who would abuse the COW, wish that /
could for once take all from your table
as you are about to sit down to the
evening meal all that the COW has placed
thereon. I'd take 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 or steak or the
sweet corned plate of juicy meat. In
fact, I'd leave you to make your meal
upon Irish potatoes, beet pickles and
tooth picks.
No other animal works for man both
day and night; by day she gathers food
and when we are asleep at night she
brings it back to rechew and manufac-
ture into all the things OF which l speak.
She has gone with man from Plymouth |
rock to the setting sun. 1t was her sons
that drew the prairie schooner for the |
sturdy pioneer, as inch by inch they |
sought to prove that westward the star
of empire takes its way" And the old |
COW grazed along behind and when the
days work was done she came and gave
the milk to fill the mothers breast to
feed the sucking babe that was per-
chance to become the future ruler of his
country.
Who says that what we are to great |
extent we do not owe to mans best
friend, the cowl Treat her kindly, gent
ly, for without her-words fail me to de-
scribe.
II was the COW that made it possible
for man to change the great American
desert into land of prosperous and
happy homes. When she came the buff
falo disappeared, the Indian tepee gave
way to the church, sehoolhouse and home.
and where once the wild wolves howed.
to-day children prattle, grass grows,
flowers bloom and the birds sing-By
Col. +. NJ. Woods.