Show TRIBUTE TO THE COW grand and noble brute ot of all the animal friends of man she is the great est to her we owe the most 4 acx amine into the different ad note the result should she lie be blotted out A sunday stillness would then pervade the great stockyards stock yards industries of our cities rind and grass would grow in our streets fifty per cent at least of the freight that now plows the continent from ocean to ocean would be sidetracked for there would be nothing tor for them to do fifty per cent ot of the laborers would draw no pay on saturday night our tables would be bare of the greatest luxuries with which they are now covered oh you would abuse a cow I 1 wish that 1 I as you are ab about out to sit down to the noonday meal might slip up and remove from your table what the cow has placed thereon I 1 would take the cup of milk waiting at babas chair id take the cream the cheese the butter the custard pie the cream biscuit the steak the smoking sing king roast of beef and leav eyou to make a meal of potatoes beets pickles and toothpicks it Is the selfsame self same cow that made the great western plains to blossom like the rose and were it not for her they would revert to the indians from whence they came none others like the cow there it IS not a thing from nose to tail but that is utilized tor for the use of 0 man we use her horns to comb colub our hair her skin upon our feet her hair keeps the plaster upon the walls her hoofs make glue blueher her tall tail makes soup she gives us our milk our cream our chesse cheese and butter and her flesh Is the greatest moat meat of the nation her blood is used I 1 to make our sugar white her bones are ground to fertilize our soil and eveia even he her paunch she herself puts through the first chemical process necessary for the production of the best white card paper can be made into the finest quality of 0 false teeth no other animal works for man both night and day by lay day she gathers food and when we are asleep at night she brings it back to and convert it into all things of which I 1 speak she has gone with man from plymouth rock to the setting sun it was her sons sells that turned the first soil in the settlers clearing it was her sons bons that drew the arie schooner tor for the sturdy pioneers as inch by inch they fought to prove that westward the star of 0 the empire talc takes SS Us its way and the old cow grazing along behind and when the days march was done she ebe came and gave the milk to fill the mothers breast to foed feed the suckling babe that was perchance perchance to become the ruler of his country who says that much of what we are are or do we owe to mans best friend the cow treat her kindly gently tor for without her words fall to describe the situation F M WOODS deseret farmer |