Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1913 — Calf Knows a Thing or Two. [ARTICLE]

Calf Knows a Thing or Two.

A man concerned in educational matters in Tennessee had been converted to the agricultural point of view. He made no such mistake as to go to the people with messages of chemistry, botany or zoology, but, on the contrary, advocated eminently practical pleasures. At a meeting up in the hill country he made an address in which he labored long and arduously to prove to the audience that every boy and every girl should know how to milk a cow, and to this end should attend an agricultural college. After wearing himself and the audience pretty well out he threw the meeting open for remarks and discussion. After a painful silence, a gaunt old man with hay-colored whiskers, the principal of a theological seminary, arose. “Stranger,” said he, “I agree with you that every boy, black or white, should know how to milk a cow. I even agree that every girl should include this art along with her other accomplishments. However, I want to make this suggestion: Wouldn’t it be a good thing for a college to teach its students something that a calf couldn’t beat ’em at?” — Science.