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Show THE DAIRY COW A HOME-BUILDER. HOME-BUILDER. There is a distinct personality about the dairy cow that is possessed by no other animal. She is in a class by herself. She is both a luxury and a necessity because of her product. She produces an article of diet that ir indispensable and for which there is no substitute. Of all the animal kingdom, there is none so distinguished. distin-guished. She is preeminent and her example is worthy of imitation. She is free from ostentation. She is modest mod-est and retiring in her demeanor, but philanthropic in her nature. She (is not spasmodic, but quietly works, all' the time, and the result of her labor . is realized at once. She occupies the proud position of mother of her own family and foster-mother of a large proportion of the human family. Through all the years that have come and gone she has demonstrated her importance" as a factor in home-building by the beautiful homes that are universally found in those countries where -she abounds and where her product is handled intelligently. She is not only a home-builder, but a household provider and an educator. She is not only a civilizer, but the advance ad-vance guard of prosperity always. There is no form on which she has biOtoSiLio. tajUvno: conspicuous part but what has been made more fertile, more productive, more remunerative, and more valuable. valu-able. There is no country in which she is a prominent factor in the agricultural agri-cultural interests but what is made more prosperous. There is no fnmily to which her product is the chief source of revenue but what is generously gener-ously provided f6r and arc made happier hap-pier and more contented in consc quencc. There is no person but what is made tetter by their associating with dairy cows nnd studying their natures and giving them such treatment treat-ment as will be conducive to their greatest production. The dairy cow is a home-builder in a broader sense than simply furnishing the means for building a house. She not only builds a home to live in, but she furnishes it and continues to supply it with necessities and luxuries that make it attractive and a household of con tcntment. She builds, besides a house for her caretaker and one for herself, a school home, a church home, a mercantile mer-cantile home, and a banking home, ail for the advancement and convenience of a community, and she endows every institution that she builds. The home of the dairy cow is a land of peace and plenty, where intelligence audi refinement abound. As you are interested in making your home u happy one and above everything else, cultivating a contented disposition in your family, as you favor progress and education and refinement, and would accumulate a competency for those you love, let the dairy cow have a prominent place, in your program on the farm. |