THE COW 



THE KINGDOM OF THE COW 



As the Pilgrim journeys through the Farm 

 Country, he may come to the long reaches of the 

 great river where luxuriant plenty broods over the 

 land, where the smooth landscape lies in checkered 

 squares, where the flat grain fields stretch away to 

 the horizon and the earth yields her increase to 

 even a careless husbandry. In regions such as 

 these are grown the grains that figure in the prod- 

 uce exchanges of the world. When the Pilgrim 

 leaves behind him the broad stretches of the fertile 

 plain and sets his face toward the Hill Country, he 

 will come to a pleasant land where the brooks run 

 in narrow valleys and rocky pasture fields fenced 

 by old stone walls cling to the slopes of the hills 

 and springs of pure water bubble up beside the 

 road. He will find close snuggled in the elbow of 

 the valley old farmsteads under spreading trees,. 

 and perhaps a row of shining milk-cans sunning 

 beside the kitchen door. Then there will be big 



red bams with silos, and on the alluvial soils along 



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