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Feb., 1891.
Dairymen's association / Leading feeders of our nation, / When they promote this grand combine / To raise good cows and fatten swine.
The cow doth now enjoy her hay, / But longs for snow to pass away, / So she o'er pasture lands can stray, / She dearly loves the month of May.
Great source of wealth the cows do yield / While they do roam o'er grassy field, / Along the banks of crystal stream, / Which makes our cheese so rich with cream.
And the pigs, they may enjoy their whey / Which makes them grow without delay, / In the sections they make cheese / For it with the hog agrees.
It doth expand them every way, / Peas and coarse grain makes fat to stay, / And to bran slops they won't say nay, / 'Mong grass they love to root away.
But the pigs, they should all be sold / Before that they are nine months' old, / For then they make delicious meat, / So young, and tender and so sweet.
At the great pork factory of Grant / Big fat hogs no more they want, / But all the young pigs you can rear, / Two hundred thousand every year.