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kept for cows, that they are determined both the foreign and 

 domestic market shall be supplied. And while these compara- 

 tively new branches in dairy farming may stimulate to new efforts 

 to produce milk, it is no new thought that milk in all ages of 

 the world has been almost priceless in its pure state, and it is no 

 less valuable when compounded with other articles of diet. To the 

 cow we look for a continued supply of this nutritious article of food, 

 therefore we would briefly call your attention to the cow, her 

 treatment, and what she produces. In point of practical utility 

 the cow holds an important position among the domestic animals. 

 The patient ox, after having been raised up through his steerhood 

 and became oxified, goes hawing and geeing, at the bidding of 

 its driver, and is a faithful colaborer with him in seed time and 

 harvest, and at the end of life, if it has not been a failure, fur- 

 nishes a certain amount of food. 



The hog, eats, sleeps, grunts and gets fat, and when slaugh- 

 tered furnishes pork — ham and — all but the eggs, which pays in 

 part or wholly the cost of feeding. 



The horse shares with its rider the toil of the farm, takes him 

 to mill, to market and to meeting, but when life's labors are over 

 it is fit only for the compost heap. And how is it with the co.w ? 

 Maturing as she does in early life, and paying with her increase a 

 portion at least, of the cost of her raising, she then becomes a 

 daily producer of food for man, in quantity proportionate to the 

 food and treatment she receives from the hand of man. Stick a 

 pin here ! Read what is written ! Feed your cow bountifully 

 and treat her humanely. The rich man's cow is a valuable treas- 

 ure to her owner. The poor man's cow blesses his household. 

 The widow's cow feeds the fatherless, and whenever we learn 

 that the poor man's or the widow's cow has been illegally tres- 

 passed upon, we feel assured that the trespasser has drank larger 

 draughts of sour milk than of the milk of human kindness. Those 

 beautiful heifers that were exhibited at the last show of the 

 society, some having had and others not having had calves, 

 had prominent marks of becoming good cows, and whether they 

 mingle in large dairies or are kept alone, will carry out the great 

 principle of doing as they are done by. The cow is affectionate 

 as illustrated by the story of the old black cow which followed her 

 shepherd to the Alps ; and she is benevolent, as proved by the 

 straying Jersey, which rewarded the stranger that took her in, 



