The Springdale news., 1917-03-09
The Family Cow
The following tribute to the COW was delivered by Col. F. NJ Woods, It Sprinefield. Illinois, in 1897:

was delivered by Col F. NJ Woods, It Springfield. Illinois, in 1897
 Grand ana noble brute, of all mans animal fiends 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 plotted out. 4 Sunday stiffness would prevade the great stock yards of our large cities and grass would grow in the streets. One-half the freight trains that blow 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 no pay on Saturday night; our tables would be bare of the greatest luXu- rieS with which they are now loaded. The great plains of the west that the eoss-has made To blossom like the rose would revert to the Indians from whence they came and millions of prosperous homes would be destroy ed.
 None other like the COW. There is aot thing from nose to tail but what's utilized for the Use of man. Ne Use her horns to comb our hair, her skin k on your feet and horses backs. Her hair keeps the plaster on our walls, the hoof makes glue and her tail makes soap. 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 even the contents of her paunch she has herself put through the first chemical process or the manufacture of the best quality of white board paper and it has been discovered that that paper can be made into the best false teeth. Oh, you would abuse the COW, wish that 1 could for once take from your table as you are about to sit down 10 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, 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 on Irish potatoes. beet pickles and toothpicks.
 No other animals 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 manufatcre into all the things of which 1 speak She has gone with man from Plymouth Rock to the set ting sun It was her sons that drew the prairie schooner for the sturdy pioneer, as inch by inch they fought to prove that Westward the Star of Empire takes it's way" And the old cow grazed along behind and when the days march was done she came and gave the milk to fill the mothers breast to feed the sucking babe that was perchance to become the future ruler of his country.
 Who says that what we are to a great extent we do not owe to man S best friend, the COW? Treat her kindly, gently, for without her words fail me to describe
 It was the COW that made it pos sible for man to change the great American desert into a land of happy and prosperous homes. When sine came the buffalo disappeared the Indian tepee gave away to the church. school house and home, and where once the wild wolves howled today children prattle, grass grows, flowers bloom and birds sing
 The above eulogy was made part of the Shorthorn Record in the office at Springfield, H., also in Canada. It has been printed in five different countries and translated into their language It was used by a United States Senator in speech in the Senate in speaking against the 0leo- margarine Bill.