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pleted it and pronounced it perfect, when he had finished this 

 universe with its majestic mountains, its extensive plains, its 

 towering trees, its rippling brooks, its noisy rivers, its placid 

 lakes, its rough oceans, its dense forests, its innocent flowers, 

 this beautiful piece of architecture and workmanship, over which 

 the inhabitants of the globe have gone into ecstacy for over 6,000 

 years and have continually found something new to admire, 

 when after this thousands of living creatures were created, when 

 finally the climax was reached in the creation of man in God's 

 own image, a perfect creature, that man was a farmer and plac- 

 ed on a farm. 



This is not all. Do you remember years after this, when 

 God desired to recognize his children in a substantial manner 

 for their obedience, or when he made them a promise of a rich 

 reward for fidelity and compliance with his requests, in his de- 

 sire to make this gift valuable, did he offer corner lots in some 

 city, bank stock, mines of rich mineral, blocks of fine houses, 

 droves of horses or beef cattle? No, he offered them farms. 

 That was the most valuable heritage he could give them, and I 

 want to call your attention farther to the fact that he made this 

 proposition just as attractive as possible by not only promising 

 farms, but promising dairy farms — a land of milk and honey. 



In conclusion, I would leave these thoughts with you today 

 as reasons why the dairy cow should be most liberally introduced 

 into Illinois and at all times be the object of special care and 

 consideration. She is entitled to this consideration because of 

 her long years of usefulness. She is worthy of it because of 

 her money making power and by no means least in my estimation 

 is her influence on the home. Prof. Erf of Ohio says he found 

 in that portion of Europe where the most cows were milked, not 

 only the best farms and the highest priced land, but he found a 

 higher order of intelligence and more refinement. I believe that 

 a man is made better for associating with a good dairy cow. 



Ladies, if any of you have a man in your family who has 

 an ugly disposition and hard to manage, I beseech you to get him 

 into the dairy business as soon as possible. A cow is an advo- 



