Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-07-19

made of a log Of wood with hole bored
through it leagthwise, and spout inserted in
one side and handle put on tine other and
that this COW is then stood over hole in the
ground and is MIXED by moving the handle up
and down while the milk runs out of the spout
and is caught in a pail, and is then sold at
eight cents a quart
A cows MILK PRIVILEGE
consists of bag which is situated between
her hind legs within easy reach of her tail
This bag is furnished with four faucets from
which the milk is drawn. The first milking
machine ever invented Is the calf, but for
dairy purposes he is too expensive, as the cost
of running the machine eats up all the profits
Milk is manufactured into cheese and butter
Cheese as an article of food exercises a mite~y
power in the land. Butter is sold by the
pound, the price varying in adverse ratio to
the strength of the butter. Butter takes a
high rank as an article of diet A cows uses
fulness does not end with her life. She is
useful from one end to the other While we
comb our hair, button up our clothes and
make spoons of her horns, we make soup of
her tail, cover our feet with her hide, stick
our plaster with her hair, make ivory knife
handles with her bones, eat her flesh and run
her tallow into candles, glue our broken furni-
ture together with her boots, and gather up
the remaining fragments and manufacture
them into minee pies and hash. She is as
useful as door-plate The first COW that
took the oath of allegiance in this country was
one that Christopher Columbus brought over
IN 1892. She was an excellent animal and
lived to ripe old age. Within five years
have dined on piece of steak cut from that
animal at least, such is my honest convic-
ton. This may seem like tough story, but
it is not tougher than the steak.
THE OK Is STRICTLY BUSINESS ARTICLE.
He is used Oh the farm as a steam engine. He
is as faithful as a box of pills, and somewhat
slower than lightning In the early days of
the world he had the habit of falling into
wells on Sunday, but have not heard of an
instance of that kind lately A man who has
driven an OK team all his life is always
selected as bearer at funeral, as he never
gets ahead of the procession. An other kind
of a cow is called the bull. The bull is chiefly
celebrated for his disposition, which is cut gor-
ing and gathered in quite full. He generally
wears an earring in his nose, and carries off
all the best prizes a. cattle shows. He has a
passion for sticking his horns into and ripping
you open merely to CRAFTY curiosity to know
how you are made inside. If he could be
utilized he would make fortune of a whole
sale oyster dealer to shock out oysters
A CHASE.
When small boy was going across pas
ture when | heard noise as if some one was
clearing their throat. | looked around and
saw it was bull practic ing base solo. He
evidently had something he wished to comu-
nicate to me, as he was running towards me
with all speed. | CHANGED to remember that
it was nearly my dinner time, and unless |
hurried l might be late so started on the
run too. In those days if had run for Office
/ am sure | could have been elected. / had
a pride to keep ahead of the bull, and he
seemed acuted by desire 10 run ahead of his
ticket. For few seconds annhilated space
wonderfully. | made as many as 2500 revo>
lutions per minute, with con seriousness that
1900 pounds of race beef was close behind
me. | had on my head a hat braided of
straw; it was what is termed out West
'cow's breakfast" | went too fast for that
hat, and it left my head and blew backwards
towards the bull. He paused moment to
try it on that moment saved my life | did
not wait to see whether the hat fit him or not.
The rails were quite close together. | had
no time to attempt to rise in the world and
60 over that Tense. / had often seen cat
when at full speed disappear through hole
the exact size of the cat and aiming my
head at one of the spaces between the rails,
gave a dive. There was rafting of jacket
buttons on the under rail, but kept along
A splinter on the other rail caught in my
trousers, but still kept on and landed in
somewhat rumbled condition on the other side
of the fence on bull thistle. As | sat down
it occurred to me that the thistle was rath-
er intimate with me, but glance at the fence
showed me the rear elevation of my trousers
in the wind. | let it hutter and proceeded
homeward | that day got prejudice against
bulls that have never got over and to-day
| would not take the gift of the best bull in
America, unless he was made Of cast iron
and painted blue.-Belfast Journal