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 "title": "Address to the Dairymen’s Association",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
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    "text": "Dairymen’s association",
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    "text": "Leading feeders of our nation,",
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    "text": "When they promote this grand combine",
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    "text": "To raise good cows and fatten swine.",
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    "text": "The cow doth now enjoy her hay,",
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    "text": "But longs for snow to pass away,",
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    "text": "So she o’er pasture lands can stray,",
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   {
    "text": "She dearly loves the month of May.",
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    "text": "Great source of wealth the cows do yield",
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   {
    "text": "While they do roam o’er grassy field,",
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   {
    "text": "Along the banks of crystal stream,",
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    "text": "Which makes our cheese so rich with cream.",
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    "text": "And the pigs, they may enjoy their whey",
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   {
    "text": "Which makes them grow without delay,",
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    "text": "In the sections they make cheese",
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    "text": "For it with the hog agrees.",
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    "text": "It doth expand them every way,",
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   {
    "text": "Peas and coarse grain makes fat to stay,",
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   {
    "text": "And to bran slops they won’t say nay,",
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   {
    "text": "’Mong grass they love to root away.",
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    "text": "But the pigs, they should all be sold",
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    "text": "Before that they are nine months’ old,",
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    "text": "For then they make delicious meat,",
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    "text": "So young, and tender and so sweet.",
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    "text": "At the great pork factory of Grant",
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    "text": "Big fat hogs no more they want,",
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    "text": "But all the young pigs you can rear,",
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    "text": "Two hundred thousand every year.",
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