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Show Individuality of the Cow, B Among the pro-holiday publications B Is a neat little brochuro from the de- B partment of agriculture, entitled "The jB Individuality of the Cow." Wo look JB for It to achlevo much popularity as B a Christmas remembrance. There ?H have been many volumes written, H treating of tho traits of wild animals ij?i of various kinds. Mr. Thompson-Seton wto-. or tho other way about, as tho case '"Vjiuj mny be, has told us of the intellectual BJ accomplishments of the grizzly bear M (not the dnnco), the wildcat and other HH denizens of tho forest and plains, Mr. (IB Charles LlvlngBton Dull has often en- H thralled us with his maBterly inter- jS pretatlon of tho mental processes of B tho beavor and tho hawk. If we are fSJ not mistaken ho once wrote a very IBl realistic article about tho diplomatic St achievements of tho skunk. Others Hi havo written of the horso and dog, but It remained for the government to HJ tako Its pen In hand and set down a M few thoughtful remarks about the That the cow has Individuality none will gainsay. Those who have seen a 1 hurrying cow, with a barrel hoop draped over her horns, earnestly en- HjJ dcavorlng to get somewhere, will Hjj agree with this. Those who have at- Hjj tempted to persuade -a cow to be drlr- BB en homo from the pasture or to get Bfl out of the way of an automobllo will 9a also acknowledge that In such casus the cow has Individuality of a marked SJ type. H Dut none of us has ever applied BJ psychology to tho cow, as we have to H other animals. Wo havo not yet read tho government's nrtlclo, preferring to express our Joy over Us publication and to ndvlso the public of it at onco, hut we aro euro that during tho com- Ing winter evonlngs wo shall acquire BJ a storo of helpful IHIormatlon concern- lug bovluo subconsciousness nnd BJ subliminal cerohratlon that shall en- XJ ablo ub to hear wondrous meanings Hj In each differentiated moo, and to BJ trace lines of character upon the placid faco of tho cow when she Is contentedly chewing thn cud and ie- H fleeting upon tho probloms that beret BJ her. jfl |