CONCERNING COW-PASTURES AND COW- 

 PATHS 



The first dairyman was wholly a pastoralist. He 

 proved himself a wise farm-manager and a skillful 

 feeder when he led his herd where the pastures 

 were richest, and after thirty centuries the Hebrew 

 idyl, "He maketh me to lie down in green pas- 

 tures, He leadeth me beside the still waters," re- 

 mains the world's most beautiful symbol of ten- 

 der and loving care. 



The quest of pasture has been one of the primi- 

 tive forces that have made history. Many of the 

 great early migrations, which have forced whole 

 peoples across deserts, over mountains and into 

 new valleys and strange lands, have been the re- 

 sult not so much of the lust of power and the 

 glory of empire as the insistent necessity for new 

 pasture grounds. The thirteenth chapter of 

 Genesis is not only an excellent sermon on the 

 settlement of family quarrels, but it is also an 

 illuminating treatise on the early pasturage situa- 

 tion in Palestine. "Lot also, which went with 

 Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. And the 



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