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and sweet. Water and salt are necessary. Above all do not 

 stint the cow when dry. This is the time for her to renew her 

 vitality and prepare for the great strain of next season. She 

 ought to be dry for about six weeks and be well fed during 

 that time. 



The Man. Some General Observations. 



What about the other twin ? What shall we say of him ? 

 Bacon observed in his time that " Children in dairy districts 

 do wax more tall than where they feed on bread and flesh." 

 Carlyle lamented that the best milk in the country districts 

 of Scotland was being shipped to the cities, and the children 

 were fed on " slops," as a result " the breed decays," Justin 

 McCarthy says: ''The word dairy is derived from the old 

 English word ' deye/ signifying a maid, and which with 

 slight alterations became a word of endearment, and thus gave 

 ns the growing young woman as the central figure for the pro- 

 duction of milk, butter and cheese." 



Dairying and the development of the highest type of man- 

 hood and womanhood have always been closely associated 

 with each other, hence we offer no apology for linking the man 

 and the cow at the present time. We believe that man is the 

 highest product of the evolutionary forces which have been 

 and still are at work, but whether or not he represents the 

 highest type of being possible who can say ? Be this as it 

 may, we l>elieve the dairy cow holds a very high place in the 

 scale of development below man. By co-operating with 

 the cow, man has been able to achieve marvellous results on 

 the farm. For our purposes mankind may be divided into two 

 classes, — farmers and non-farmers, — with a possible third 

 class who may be called part farmers and part something else. 

 Some one has said : " Americans are divided into two classes, 

 — the farmers (60 per cent) and others (40 per cent)." 



We believe that farmers are not getting a fair share of the 

 profits which ought to come to the tillers of the soil. This is 

 accounted for, to some extent, by the fact that farmers as a 

 class are too much inclined to allow the " other fellow " to 

 take the cream, while he (the farmer) is willing to take what 



