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a cover on it, and the other one said: "Mose, what you got in 

 dat basket?" He says: 'Tze got some fine angora cats; don't 

 you want to see them?" And he very carefully uncovered a 

 little space and showed them to the old darky, who said : "Mose, 

 what's you call 'em?" His reply was: "I call one of 'em Taft 

 and the other Roosevelt." The old darkey said: "Oh, that's no 

 good ; them's back numbers. Why don't you call 'em Cook and 

 Peary?" Mose said: "These ain't Pole cats." 



The twentieth century dairyman may be to some "Only a 

 Dairyman." He may be, and is, one who produces milk and 

 makes butter and cheese and deals in dairy products, but he is 

 more than this. He stands for progress and in the evolution 

 of dairying; he keeps abreast with the times. He is an intelligent 

 man because he finds in his business the most remunerative 

 market for brains ; he is a reader of dairy literature and a stu- 

 dent of dairy methods because in his business "Knowledge is 

 Power." He is not a loafer, spending his time at the cross 

 roads store trying to regulate the government, but a man who 

 tends strictly to his own business because he finds it profitable. 

 He is a family man, a home lover and spends his time there 

 because there is where his heart is. He is a soil builder instead 

 of a soil robber, because his business enables him to return to 

 his land the life-giving force that has been taken by raising 

 grain. He is a clean man because his business encourages and 

 demands it. He has written on the tablet of his memory "Clean- 

 liness is akin to Godliness," and in his social as well as his busi- 

 ness life he forcibly illustrates the truth of this. He is a home 

 builder, a home provider, a home furnisher, a house decorator, 

 a farm beautifier, because his business provides for him the 

 necessary means, and the nature of his business is such as to 

 develop a taste for the beautiful as well as the comforts of life. 

 He is a temperate man, as well as chaste in his language, be- 

 cause the source of his income wouUl not do business with him 

 if he were otherwise. Besides this, he is a voter : He is a good 

 dry goods and grocery customer. He keeps a bank account and 

 he is the highest type of American citizenship. He furnishes 



