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then dry her, and then when she freshens for the third time, 

 you will have such a cow as the next speaker, or somebody else 

 who is going to talk, will tell you about. 



Now, I am very fond of you people in Vermont, and I 

 wouldn't like to give you gentlemen too great a shock or else 

 I would tell you right here that all of the fancy dairy cows in 

 the world are developed by women. Are developed by women. 

 I didn't know that myself until a few years ago. And if you 

 doubt me I would like to take you to Denmark and Sweden, to 

 England, to Scotland, to France and Belgium, and to the 

 Islands of the Jerseys and Guernseys. 



A noted historian has written that centuries of gentle care 

 under the management of women wrought this marvel of ex- 

 cellence. I would like to take you to Denmark where they give 

 their cattle proper esteem. Why do you know that in Sweden 

 the very cow bells are embellished with the highest skill of the 

 engraver's art and they are handed down as a precious legacy 

 for generations and generations, for hundreds of years. Think 

 of it, — we Americans with our cattle. And then to Holland, 

 where those big black and white cattle thrive. I would like to 

 take you to Holland because the barns are so beautifully clean 

 there ; and the women care for them. And you will find the 

 floors sanded and you may run your finger along the sills and 

 you cannot find a bit of dust; and then those beautiful cattle, — 

 so healthy, so loved and petted, so brushed and tended that the 

 master and his hired men may safely sleep beneath the same 

 roof. I once told this at a meeting in Wisconsin, and a man 

 jumped up in the audience, and he said, "You come here to teach 

 progression, and progressive methods, and you advocate that we 

 live in a cow barn?" And I said, "Oh, no, sir, I dO' not." I 

 didn't want that man in my cow barn, I tell you right here. 

 "But I would advocate a condition," I said, "so perfect that it 

 would not be detrimental to anyone to live in a cow barn." That 

 is true; and do you know I believe if that man had been com- 

 pelled to live in the barn with good, wholesome dairy cows, he 

 would have been elevated. We call ourselves progressive 

 Americans ; do you know what would be a better term ? Con- 

 ceited Americans, — because we think anything we do is all right ; 

 we are hustlers ; we are in America. There is one thing, my 

 friends, you cannot hustle, if you are going to make a success of 

 it and that is the dairy business. You can't hustle the old dairy 

 cow. You have got to give her time to swing that big udder 

 up the lane. If we progressive men were not content to be 

 satisfied with our meagre knowledge of cattle breeding, we 

 would go over to those old countries and we would wring from 

 those women the entire secret of their success, and then we 



