The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-03-08
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HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.
Cow Nature.


That COWS acknowledge individuality
among themselves is evident from the
fact that in every herd there is sure to
be one master COW who domineers over
all the rest. Watch the thirsty herd
going to drink at pool on q sultry
summer day, and you will see the mas
ter COW enter first, unopposed by the
others, who, should the pool be small
one, will not presume to join her in 1t
but will wait patiently on the bank till
she leaves the water, even though she
may choose to remain there, switching
her tail at the flies and enjoying the
cool bath for her legs, for some time
after she has quenched her thirst,
To the human spectator it would seem
that she is selfishly and needlessly pro
longing the thirst of her friends; but
they do not resent her selfindulgence,
nor attempt to hurry her, but only hum
bly, wait till 1t shall be her pleasure to
make room for them to go and drink.
For is not she their undlsputed chief,
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A contributor to an English journal
tells the following story of the "top
boss" in his herd, named Dulas: she is
neither the biggest, nor the strongest,
nor the longest horned of the party and
how she has acquired her supremacy we
know not, but we imagine that it must
be through sheer force of character and
will. We one day had an opportunity
of watching her lead her companions to
place of mischief, which they all
quite evidently knew to be against the
laws of their human superiors, and
therefore to be done on the sly, IL possi-
bic. The cows were in field adjoining |
a rickyard, and in the rickyard was an
wherein some mangels were
stored. The field was separated from
the rickyard by hedge, in which was
hurdle; and twice in one day had
the COWS broken through the gap, got at
their beloved mangels, and been driven
out again ignominiously. Undaunted
by this they made third attack, and
we happened to arrive just in time to see
1t done. While the men who had driv-
EN- them back to the field were still near;
The COWS pretended to be grazing in
tranquility as though no bigger ambl.
Iion than grass had ever entered their
innocent minds. But no sooner did the
coast appear to be clear, than off set
Dulas toward the hurdle, with quick
and resolute step, shaking her head
with a most defiant and jaunty air as
she walked. Instantly every other COW
left off eating, and followed her, all ev- q
Identity aware of what she meant to do.
her horns skillfully under
oar of the hurdle, and heaving up her
lead to extract the hurdle from the
ground, she very soon managed to re-
move the obstacle, and then proceeded
5riumphantly to the mangels, with all
ler companions at her heels. Now, in
his case Dulas seems to have used some
power; for there was no at
empt made to batter down the gate by
brute force, and she had discovered the
necessity of lifting it upward. She
las talent for opening gates with easy
astenings which is rather troublesome
putting her horns In and working her
head about until she gets the fastening
lndone. And in this, also, she seems
20 show reason or observation, for else
how would she know which part of the
gate to strike