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attractive as possible by not only promising farms, but promising 

 dairy farms — a land of milk and honey. 



In conclusion, I would leave these thoughts with you tonight 

 as reasons why the dairy cow should be most liberally introduced 

 into Missouri, and at all times be the object of special care and 

 consideration. She is entitled to this consideration because of her 

 long years of usefulness. She is worthy of it because of her 

 money-making power and by no means least in my estimation is 

 her influence on the home. Prof. Oscar Erf of Ohio says ho. 

 found in that portion of Europe where the most cows were milked, 

 not only the best farms and the highest priced land, but he found 

 a higher order of intelligence and more refinement. I believe thai 

 a man is made better for associating with a good dairy cow. 



Ladies, if any of you have a man in your family who has an 

 ugly disposition and hard to manage, I beseech you to get him into 

 the dairy business as soon as possible. A cow is an advocate of 

 temperance, she won't do business with a man who drinks to ex- 

 cess. If a man persists in swearing and talking loud, or gives 

 way to his temper around where she is, she shuts off his supply. 

 A moderate cussing and a lick with a milk stool will tie up her milk 

 duct in a knot, and it's a case of visiting the iniquities of the 

 father on the children, because they have to go hungry on account 

 of their father's iniquitous conduct towards the cow. A man 

 soon learns to quit hitting the cow or swearing at her because it 

 costs too much. They soon begin to feel like Bob Evans did when 

 one Sunday, in a strange city, he went to a very fashionable church 

 and was shown a good seat that was unoccupied, and after a little 

 while a very elegantly dressed couple came down the aisle and 

 stopped at this seat and looked a little disgusted, but went in and 

 sat down. The man evinced considerable annoyance, and finally 

 handed a card to Col. Evans, on which he had written,"This seat 

 costs me $25.00 a year. Col. Bob handed it back to him after 

 writing on the other side, "It costs you too much." I commend 

 this wonderful animal to you for her intrinsic worth. For thou- 

 sands of years she has furnished a table delicacy that is not only 

 desirable but a necessity. 



As I leave this State and all of her interests, in the shadow 

 of this great Agricultural College, I urge you tonight to accept the 

 proposition made by the dairy cow. Install her in your cattle 

 homes and she will improve your farms and enhance the value of 

 your land ; beautify your homes, build up your bank accounts ; dis- 

 pel every cloud of disappointment that comes from ignorance and 



