Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1842-04-26
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For The Herald!
No. 3.--THE COWS.

No. 3.-THE COWS.
II is necessary to remove prevent certain evils
as preliminary means Of success, in every enter
prise. Il is labor lost TO build house upon an
unstable foundation. "A leak in ship must be
stopped before she can be fit for voyage 1t is a
waste 81 time and property to sow an unfenced
field. And it avails nothing to adorp public
street with trees and sidewalks if they are exposed
to the constant tramp and depredatons of thievish
cattle The same foot-path cannot well accom-
MEDIATE both man and beast unless we are willing
70 put ourselves the same footing with the ami
nal creation. AS for the young trees planted,
they will shortly be rubbed to death by these pests
to all vegetable and tree-growing improvements
OF what use too, is it for man Of taste to adorn
his front yard with shrubbery, so long as he must
find it in the morning grubbed down and turned
into cow-penl This is an intolerable nuisance
and vexation, and damper to all efforts at taste
and convenience. 1t is necessary, therefore, to de-
wise some way to rid the village of these lawless
cows They arc starved into the necessity Of
thieving to support life and the prosecutions visit
ed on them which should fall on their owners,
does not mend their manners but only makes them
the more craltyand cautious in their depredations
The horn, for several of their practical depreda-
tions serves the purposes of hand and at dead Of
\ night, like thieves of higher character, they
eopen gates, plumber and decamp before the rising
hight exposes them to detection. Should not ra-
tional man be ashamed to starve an irrational beast
into the necessity of this dishonest livelihood p
There are some. of these mschievous cows which
steal their living both sirrssaRnd wnter-in the
one season, devouring gardens and door yards; In
the other hanging about seighs and wagons to
pilfer little hay. This is public evil and an
unjustifable vexation inflicted upon the traveller
and trader. We could name a COW or two, of high
Standing in society," that costs the owner perhaps
five dollars a geAF for support Expended chiefly
for pO@ndage) and costs the public about so dol
lars annually. Is it not known that COW run
ming at large requires twice as much keeping as
one inclosed in a yard or lot2 Who ever thot
of fltening hog in the street, Something must
be done with these lanf sided and Struggling cows
before there can be much Improvement in the ap-
pearance of the village What is the remedy?-
There is room enough now in the fields for all
surviving cattle. Let those lvhocan, takein these
nuisances and pasture them at a reasonable rate
and let the owners, who are ale be content to
hire their keeping, which would DO economy fol
them, and save them many hard speeches 1t is nc
profit to keep COW night and day on the com
mon. And in the winter, there is no apology fol
turning cows adrift He who cannot afford yart
of his own. and the purchase of hay enough tc
keep a COW, can never honestly own one. Blu
since the cows in question are kept by the public
the public has right to prescribe in its own way
for their maintenance. Let those who are able
take care of their own and ifuny are not able,
would be advisable to make a tax and hire pasture
This would be cheerfully ucceeded to, for any maj
property would rather pay tax for pasture a
broad than submit to the vexation and loss sus
tanned by the destruction of his shrubbery and gar
dens C1v1s.