Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1904 — THE OLD MILCH COW. [ARTICLE]

THE OLD MILCH COW.

One of the best live stock auctioneers in the State of lowa is Colonel F. M. Woods, of Nevada, lowa. At a sale recently held at Springfield, Colo., as he had mounted the block to sell a fine looking old milch cow he stopped for a moment to look the animal over and then said: “Of all the animal friends of man she is the greatest. I wish that I, as you are about to sit down to your Sunday dinner, might take from your table what she had placed thereon. I would remove the cup of milk waiting at the baby’s chair. I’d take the cream, the cheese, the butter, the custard pie, the cream biscuit, the roast of beef and leave you a meal of potatoes, beets, pickles and toothpicks. “Every scrap of her, from nose to tail, is used by man. We use her horns to comb our hair, her skin upon our feet, her hair keeps the plaster on our walls, her hoofs make glue and her tail makes soup. Her blood is used to make our sugar white, her bones are ground to fertilize our soil. She has gotfe with " man from Plymouth Rock to the setting sun. It was her sons that turned the sod in the settler’s clearing; it was her sons that drew the prairie schooner for the sturdy pioneers, while she followed. And when the day’s march was done she came and gave the milk to fill the mother’s breast to feed the suckling babe that was perchance to become the ruler of his country.”