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with what my mother could earn with her needle and what my 

 father got we soon paid up for the little place. I drifted away 

 from home and staid for six or eight years, and when I came 

 back and settled down for life, was it not perfectly natural 

 that I should remember the good cow, in looking for a business ? 

 I knew what she had done, and was satisfied what she would do 

 for me. We started in with four cows, and have kept at the 

 dairy business from that time to this, and those cows have stood 

 by us and have fed us and clothed us and given us a compe- 

 tence all through life. We have raised six children, and they 

 have fed and clothed them and educated them fairly well. 

 They enabled me to help my children to a better start in life 

 than I had myself, and they have left with me enough to carry 

 me through. That is what the cow has done for me and for 

 my family. I am asked to speak of the cow as the friend of 

 the family. \\'hat does she do? It is easier to enumerate the 

 things that she does not do. ]\Iany and many are the things 

 she does for the family. Her milk is the foundation of all infant 

 foods. Not only does she raise our young children but she raises 

 all our young — our calves and pigs, our cosset lambs, our colts, 

 our puppies and kittens. Every domestic animal she feeds and 

 rears for us. And she spreads her golden coat over almost 

 everything that we eat. She shortens our doughnuts, our pie- 

 crusts and cakes. She makes many of our puddings and fur- 

 nishes the sauce for many more. She makes our toast, our 

 cream pies and cream cakes, she butters our beefsteaks ; and by 

 the way, if it were not for her we should have no beefsteak to 

 butter. \\'hat would a young man do when he goes out walking 

 with his best girl in the evening if he could not drop into a saloon 

 and get a plate of ice cream ? and what would we do with all our 

 berries in summer time if we had not some good, sweet cream 

 to eat on them? and what would we do if we sat down to eat 

 our mush and milk and hadn't the milk? By the 'vay, what 

 would the good housewife do anyway if she hadn't the product 

 of the cow? As well blot the sun out of the solar system as 

 banish the cow from this country. So I say, long live the good, 

 useful cow ! 



