jq ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMENS ASSOCIATION. 
adjectives unnecessarily employed in teaching the infant 
bovine to drink, when undertaken by a man would beggai 
description and fill books. Would we could read the other 
side of the story, bound in calf. 
You may justly say, what has this to do with the 
*< homes of the dairymen ? ” Much, we assure you. Cot¬ 
ton was king until corn waved its tasseled scepter. Now, 
the cow and her progeny are absolute sovereigns, usurping 
unlimited power. Every effort must bend towards their 
well-being and comfort, else they will refuse to yield munifi¬ 
cent returns, which gives prosperity and comfort to the 
household. What busy homes they are, too, from early 
■ morn’ till dewy eve ” ! The dairyman’s home. The name is 
suggestive of a comfortable degree of wealth. if tha 
wealth is acquired by the present owner, it means that the 
day of good, strong, brave tusseling with poverty is over , 
that the foe he had wrestled with so long and stoutly is 
vanquished. Yet to keep the vantage ground so valiantly 
gained, requires busy hands, notwithstanding he can give 
his family many comforts and luxuries heretofore unattain¬ 
able. “ No man has a better right to kill himself by over¬ 
work than he has to do it by over-drinking. If suicide be 
a crime, he who dies by putting too great a task upon his 
strength, is as truly a criminal as he who dies by putting a 
bullet through his brain. If a certain amount of rest and 
recreation is necessary to a man’s health and h c, c 
omission to take it is as great an offense against Gods law 
in nature as would be the omission to take food, and death 
by willful starvation is no more an act of self-destruction 
than is death by willful fatigue.” One can not but be 
struck with the force and truthfulness of these remarks. 
Where is the remedy? Unquestionably the housekeeper 
in the dairyman’s home is too often o ver-taxec — e 11 'q 
less service of willing hands, the strength of swift feet 
* It is useless to enumerate the duties that pile 
themselves Alps high upon the weary shoulders, and more 
than useless to suggest a servant to lighten the labor. We 
remark here, emphatically, there are no servants in this pro¬ 
gressive, enlightened, civilized nineteenth cen ury, a 
know how to work. Then is it any wonder that the brow 
becomes ruffled and the voice takes on a hard monotonous 
sound, directly in the face of duty, when the body is over¬ 
weary? We know full well, to be happy ourselves and to 
