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decreasing factor in our scheme of dairy industry. 

 We are told that it is very much wiser and more 

 progressive and better all around to grow soiling 

 crops and cut and carry them to the cow in the 

 bam. One may deliver quite a fine sounding lec- 

 ture on the economic advantage of soiling cows. 

 But I am glad that there are so many farms where 

 cow-pastures can never pass. The rich corn-belt 

 farmer will let his cows drink water out of an iron 

 bowl in the stall or out of a concrete watering 

 trough where water is pumped from a driven well 

 by a gasoline engine. But my dream-farm will al- 

 ways have old rocky hillside pastures, threaded 

 and laced with cow-paths where old trees cast deep 

 shadows and little ravines with thickets make 

 caverns of shade, and cows drink out of little bright 

 running brooks and stand at the bars until the 

 children come home from school to call them to 

 the bams. And I like the unremembered Harvard 

 student who made a verse about it thus : 



"She stood at the bars as the sun went down 

 At the close of a beautiful summer day; 

 Her eyes were tender and big' and brown 

 Her breath was as sweet as the new mown hay." 



