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bur Marsh of Iowa on the street, and in conversation with him 

 I asked him how the separator business was. He said, ''I don't 

 know; I'm not paying any attention to the separator business." 

 I says, *'What are you doing?" He says, "I'm just raising hell 

 in Iowa. My ambition is to own ten of the best cows in the 

 world and keep them on ten acres of land, as an illustration of 

 what can be done." The outcome of his interest and his efforts 

 was Dairymaid of Pinehurst, who in her performance at three 

 years old broke the world's record and made her name a house- 

 hold word throughout the country. This is not all. He offered 

 prizes, paid for scholarships, took an interest in the National 

 Dairy Show, and I feel today that she is coming into her own. 

 There are a lot of fellows that have followed Mr. Marsh's ex- 

 ample, and there has been permanently established in the metrop- 

 olis of this great State a National Dairy Show, such as the world 

 has never known. It is the culmination of a life dream. It is 

 the outgrowth of a mighty effort. All honor to Sudy, who 

 started the ball to rolling, and too much cannot be said laudatory 

 of W. E. Skinner, under whose management it has attained such 

 wonderful proportions. I don't know that we have any right 

 to believe that an animal don't think, and if they do, I know 

 what the Lonesome Cow thinks of him through whom she has 

 been brought into such prominence and on account of which she 

 has had such tender care. I would say to Mr. Skinner, "Ybur 

 name is inseparably linked with the Dairy Cow ; your praises are 

 being sung by the dairymaids who occupy the front seats and 

 the boxes at this show that from time immemorial has been occu- 

 pied by the devotees of the cob horse, the poodle dog and the 

 Angora cat ; and I am authorized to say to the politician that the 

 Dairy Cow has blazed the trail to the legislative hall and the 

 Senate of Illinois, and the door of the Governor's mansion. The 

 handwriting is on the wall and it is not like the shoemaker's 

 sign, which was "Adam Good, shoemaker." It was so written 

 that a man came along and, being attracted by it, read, "A dam 

 Good Shoemaker !" 



In connection with this story are many touching incidents, 

 and the names of many whose influence has brought about this 

 transformation and whose names have been indelibly written on 



