Show A tribute to the cow ily E G bennatt little does man mail realize the debt ho he owes the cow during the dark ages of savagery and barbarism na wo rind her early ancestors natives of the wild forests of the old world As the bright rays of civilization penetrated the darkness of that early period and a it 1 I man called upon the cow sho she came ferth from her seclusion to share in the efforts that gave us a gre greater ater nation and a more ancl anc l people in 1193 1493 1 when columbus made hi hil mccond voyage to Amei amonia ica the cow came with him and front from that time ro 0 the present dan day she has bern 1 1 11 host potent mactor in making m this thia our own moutry fou ml one of the great na alls inns her sons till the soil of 0 our investors ine estors and aloi ly moved tile products of the farm to the market they went want with man into the dense forests if tile new world helped clear them or homes and made cultivation possible 1 I ble for vie coming generation when the title tide of emigration turn lurn ad westward es it was the ov 0 that the belongings of the p otiler berosh the plain and over the great mountain langes to new homes beyond the cow is mans mails greatest benefactor hall hail wind droughts and hoods floods may come destroy our crops and banish our hopes but from what is left tile the cow manufactures the most nourishing and life sustaining foods food |