The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-02-28

/ Readers of The Citizen have read
| about my new breed of cattle, and
! they'll read more about 'em soon,
! but just at present there's another
| new thing out in the line of cattle
and they were discovered down in
! Live Oak, California, by Citizen
! reader who went down there from
| Wayne county. ! received his letter
! last Tuesday and will let you read
| it. He writes:
Live Oak, Cal.
Dear Wayne County Farmer:
| | wish to write you something
| which may be of interest and bene-
| fit to yourself and Citizen readers.
| The dairy men here have for the last
| ten or fifteen years been troubled
with bloating cows, many of which
died. Alfalfa, which produces on
an average of fourteen or fifteen tons
per acre and is the best milk and fat
producing feed, caused this bloating,
/ even as cured hay, and could not be
dispensed with, so it became neces-
sary to have a man with the herd
constantly to give the cows soda wa
J ter and other remedies, or in extreme
/ cases to use a butcher knife and
carve hole into their stomachs and
insert piece of gas pipe. But now
since the soda supply is nearly ex-
/ hausted and iron is expensive here,
a professor of the State Agricultural
School began experimenting with the
result. He took a piece of soft rub
ber some two and one-half inches
thick and at each end attached a
short piece of vulcanized rubber a
little larger than the tube. In this
tube he placed a valve held closed by
a spring. When the stomach gen.
Grated more gas than it's ordinary
capacity the pressure overcame the
spring and let out the boat. 1t
was a grand success. This was sew
en- years ago and the progency of ami
mails so improved are now born with
these exhausts already grown in
their anatomy.
/ The breed of COWS described in
the above letter must be wonderful
and would be valuable here in
| Wayne county when the cows go out
on the clover in the Spring and put
on a balloon-like appearance. The
/ Wayne County Farmer will make
further investigation of this and
probably arrange to have a herd
shipped up by express. But when I
get them l shall experiment still
further and take advantage of the
/ way led by the California professor,
who claims to be the inventor. In
/ these days of ballooning the biggest
! question is how to cut down the ex-
/ penses of initiating the balloons. My
idea is to connect the valves on
these cows to an air tank attached
to their backs, and in that way
fnh al h
the evening these small tanks will be
emptied into large tank and a pipe
line from this large tank in the COW
stable will be run to the big cities
in the U. s., and sold at so much per
cowful. Fifty cows on big patch
of clover will supply enough gas to
make an Independent fortune, be-
sides other advantages that 20 with
it, | can put a small cylinder to the
tank on each COW and with fly
wheel and milking attachment make
each COW do her own milking, butter
churning and feed grinding When
the cows have the tanks filled and
get tired of walking they can step on
a prepared truck, put belt on the
hind shaft, get a steer to do the
steering, toot their horns, and ride
home from the clover field. It's sim
ply wonderful! In the busy season
we win run belt to the COW stable
4 (our power house, from the kitchen
and grind the coffee, beat the eggs
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thing that Lena is too lazy to dc
herself. By breeding these cattle
with the power attachment for a
number of years, the calves will
eventually be born with the full,
equipment, just as they now are with
valves in California, and it will be
only a matter of another twenty
years when we farmers will be rails
ing gas plants and power plants in.
stead of Short Horns and Jersies
says the farmer has no future? Ole
Mother Earth will soon take off hel
veil and smile at the Milky Way
The COW The Wonderful Cow
commands recognition!