6 THE COW 



cance, for the negro, either slave or free, has always 

 been the main dependence for agricnltural labor, 

 and as a race they are perhaps less calculated than 

 any other to bring to the cow the intelligence and 

 systematic attention necessary for success. In 

 fact, the distribution of our various types of agri- 

 culture is in many ways a matter of racial stocks. 

 Up in some of the northern counties of New York 

 and over across the line in the domain of King 

 George are localities where dairying is supreme — 

 where we find Presbyterian churches and spotted 

 Ayrshire cattle and big, high-stepping Clydesdale 

 horses and strong-featured men with a burr-r-r in 

 their speech. These are Scotsmen who sought a 

 better country, but have remained most loyal to 

 the animals and the worship of the homeland. It 

 is this same Scot who has given to the ancient 

 dairy county of Delaware, in New York, not only 

 stem standards of living but also perhaps the most 

 highly specialized dairying in America. Likewise 

 in the Middle West and in Minnesota and Wiscon- 

 sin, it has been the Dane and the Hollander and 

 the Swede, together with the emigrant from old 

 New England, that have turned much of these 

 states into cow pastures. On the other hand, the 

 Italian and the man from eastern Europe turns 

 very readily to horticulture. He trims vines and 

 grows onions and potatoes and garden truck, and 

 with the aid of his mate and brood cuddles and 

 caresses the earth into fruitfulness, for he is to the 



