The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-01-23
COL. +. M. WOODS TRIBUTE TO
aS THE COW, -

ANNE INTO al the cldnneIS OF s"aQe
into which she enters and note the re
suit 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.
One half of the freight trains that
plow 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 Oh Saturday night and our tables
would be bare Of the greatest Injuries
with which they are loaded. The great
plains Of the west that the COW has
made to blossom like the rose would
they came and millions of prosperous
homes would be. destroyed.
None other like the COW. There is
not thing from 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 horses
backs. Her hair keeps the plaster on
our walls. her hoof makes yglue' and
her tail makes soup. She gives US. her
cream, our milk, our butter and cheese
and her flesh is the meat of nations.
Her blood is used to make our sugar
white, her bones when ground make;
valuable fertilizer, and even the con.
tents of her papnch,. she has herself
put through the first chemical process
for the manufacture of the best quality
Of white paper and now 1t has been
discovered that that paper can 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 take up the
cup of milk sitting by the baby's
chair. Id 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, Id leave
you TO make your meal upon Irish po-
tatoes. beet pickles and toothpicks.
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 man.
ufacture into all the things Of which
! speak. She has gone with man from |
Plymouth Rock to the setting 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 its Way" And the old COW
grazed along behind and when the
iFys-Msnrch was done. she came and
lave thS milk to fill the mothers
breast to feed the sucking babe that
was perchance to become the future !
ruler of this country.
Who says that what we are to a |
great extent we do not owe to mans j
best friend, the COW? Treat her kind
", gently, for without her--words fail
me to describe. eE- ~ 80
1t was the COW that made it possible
for man to change the great American
desert into land of happy and pros
porous homes When she came the |
buffalo disappeared, the Indian tepee
gave way to the church, schoolhouse
and home, and whore once the wild
wolves howled today children prattle
grass grows, flowers bloom and birds
sing. at Springfield, ILL.,,
in 1897. #
No doubt all OF our readers have
read Of the Junior Male Poland China
hog which took first prize at the Ma.
tional swine show last year. Many OF
them have seen him on the farm OF
his owner, C.. NJ. Peterson, four miles
northwest Of Dunlap. Hundreds who
have seen him have expressed the
wish that he was their property. That
is not possible right now; but 1t is
possible to buy bred sOws that have
been bred to him. The sows are able
to- stand on their own merits as in-
OF it, as good a bunch as you can find
h rI in, I'm erfOo fnf10v s1FwQNfV
OF those choice brood sOws have beenl
bred to King l.. and here is the chance
Of a life time, to get bred soWs that
are bred in the purple and classy sin-f
diyiduals who are bred to q young
sire which has taken first prize IN
his class and who, in less that five |
wears, will be the sensation or the |
Poland China breed. It will be worth |
much to own an offspring from this
great herd boar and If you don't at.
tend the bred SOW sale Of Mr.. Peder- |
sons, Friday, January rs, you are
going to pass up one Of the greatest !:
sales ever held in the great hog !
growing state Of Iowa.
4 Every one knows what happens
when water, is put into q barrel that
has stood empty in the sun for a
while. The water leaks out between
the slaves. Many manufacturers hire
men to study out ways OF stopping
such leaks in their business. It Is
said that a we'll known automobile
company offers small fortune to any
man who will save few cents IN the
cost of building prominent part OF an
auto Just SO in farming. The most
successful farmer is the one who has
the best organized business. which Is
best adapted to conditions. and has
the fewest leaks Every dairy farm.
erknows the Babcock test shows how
mich butter fat is in a cows milk.
sg1 am always pleased to SEQ tho herd
sc purebreds whose owner has culled
4 closely. Every other person have
balked to says the same. The man who
nm sell "any old thing" Just because
4 IS purebred, is doing himself and
syery other breeder an injury. The
ale OF good Individual helps every
breeder. as well as the man who sold
Il and the man who bought 1t. Every
who has the business at heart