EULOGY OF THE COW.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18408, 15 June 1925, Page 12

EULOGY OF THE COW.

"MAN'S GREATEST ANIMAL FRIEND.'"

In proposing tho toast of "Rei Majesty the Cow" at the smoke concert of the North Canterbury Dairymen's Association on Friday, Mr E. Parlane said, inter, alia,:—"The cow is man's best animal friend, meekeyed, gentle, l and, generous, mother of the whole bovine race, and fostermother to the human race. Quofen of the bruto creation, long may she. reign. Day and night, year in and year out, she works for us; receives no pay and asks, for none, only her board. There is not a. homo in the whole Englishspeaking world but Into which she brings .comfort with her .'• abundant gifts. . Prom the. tip of her horns to the end of her tail slio is a veritable treasure trove; her horns are made iito combs, and h'er*tail into brushes. ' ! Her hair keeps the plaster on» the' walls tit our homes;-and her hoofs are niado into glue to bind our furniture. Her bloo3 is.; used; to whiten our sugary and her bones are ground for fertiliser. .From her skin we get our boots, ' harness, travelling bags, footballs, and a thousand other useful articles. 'Her. flesh is the national food of the Anglo-Saxon, a race that has nevor been conquered since .history began. Her milk is the most complete aui'd nourishing food' known in the whole wide world, and from it we get cream, butter,. cheese, milk sugar, condensed, milk, milk powder, and casein. From her fat we make our.soap and glycerine, and explosives. From her entrails. we get tripe; from, her skin, oil. • "She .gave her sons as food and all her products; without, stinting for the use of our gallant soldiers and sailors during the Great War, and since the war she had'footed the bill for £150,000,000, with more to follow from her island homo, New Zealand. • It was she who stood.behind our pioneer when they converted the wilds of Manawatu,

Taranaki and Waikato—of'jtift north—into, grassy landscapes, to&j they know she would pay the interest. It is she still who jtf interests on. our mortgages Bad* work of thousands of the daughters of this country. ? "Should she cease to funelioi banks would have to close thoir| the wheels of commerce r- 1 - '-. - . ■ 3 13 with infant dead, and Dominion would 'revert to riess whence it came. ; ''3K|ijb befall the thoughtless, hcarUesi|| who would inflict on her Had I, the power I would take tow butter, cheese, roast beef and Btor*** his table and the shoes from hiij leave him to repenfon dry tirej water. Let us bo kind to My"| her with abundant feed, intajJMt. shelter and select for her a «bni aristocratic lineage so that heEitqi daughters may not bring grace. ' •■■' ' .' r ' : ■"'fm "Long may she reign qußqaiji brute creation! 'God's greatoti | man! IPUI your glasses to thebrjj drink to the s health of .mii»?isF animal friend.' .' \ ." *