FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 105 



Ladies and gentlemen, I wish to impress upon you the 

 importance of the dairy industry. I don't think, in fact 

 I know there is no more dignified industry than ours. There 

 is no one industry more essential, more necessary to human 

 health and human welfare. There is no class of products 

 more essential, more vital in building up perfect manhood 

 and womanhood than dairy products, and what we need, 

 I think, is more pride in our industry. We need more edu- 

 cation of its value, and less legislation, 



I thank you. (Applause.) 



Toastmaster: I am going to ask Mr. Nielson to intro- 

 duce the next speaker on the program. 



Mr. Nielson: Ladies and gentlemen, when we had 

 our dairy meeting the last time in Galesburg, we had with 

 us a man who most of you knew, whom we all loved, Mr. 

 W. W. Marple, who has since passed to the Great Beyond. 

 I am sure it will please you and that I will have your per- 

 mission to ask one of the young ladies in our office to read 

 a tribute to the dairy cow, from the pen of our old friend, 

 Mr. Marple. It will not only remind those of us who knew 

 him and loved him, of his great worth to our industry, but 

 it will express in better terms than I could employ the 

 economic value, the great importance of the dairy cow, 

 the foundation of our industry and the foster mother of 

 our race. This tribute will be read by Mis® Claire Marry. 



W. W. Marple's Eulogy to the Dairy Cow 



In the mad scramble for wealth and position that 

 comes with wealth, so characteristic of the American peo- 

 ple, we have tolerated the dairy cow only because of her 

 revenue. I would remind you that she is a mother, and 

 because of the fact that out of her motherhood we have 

 made merchandise, she has become a wealth producer, 

 but we should not forget that she is still a mother, not only 

 the mother of her own family but the foster mother of 

 about three-fourths of the human family, and for this we 

 hold her in grateful remembrance. In India she is more 



