The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-20
COWS WITH RUBBER LININGS STARTLE
 OLD 'CHAPINvlLLE Novelties Of Dairy Products RevoItionize the Business :.
 of Abe Gardener RUBBER ADVENTURE
 WITH CUDS LRINGS STRANGE RESULTS Even The Tripe Is Solid Rubber And Serves For Shock
 AbsOrber
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Cha pinv1lle, Feb. zU."In0 WAA0ek'l drea ms of the old original Goodyear Rubber Company never approached the possibilities or limitations of rub Der as exe1np1if1ed in the vitals Of 2 cow It was only last summer when the atoms of rubber began to disturb the environment of Chapinville, ana the first thrifty farmer to discover the rubber nlicrobe, was no otnsr than Abraham Gardner. well known to all those who have camped for the last forty years on the island at Twin Lakes
 MT. Gardner's farm is on the up- land overlooking the lake and his meadows stretch along both sides Of the highway for a half mile or more. He keeps a large herd of HoIsteins, good 1nilkers and he conducts proI- 1table milk business. Last summer the season was unusually dry No rain fell for weeks and weeks and the farmers had to draw water from the lakes to supply their stock for miles round about
 The highways were mass of pow der ground up by the unusual rush of 4he summer tourists in automobiles. Thousands passed the Gardner home stead and the wind blew the dust over the door yard and fields in all direc- lions Mixed with the dust was in hnftesima1 particles of rubber ground off of the automobile tires and this compound of rubber and dust was rhfckly distributed all over MT. Gard Der's Dasfures The cows devoured grass, dust and rubber and MT Gard- ner noticed that they became unus- uaIIy thifsty- He and his son Charlie hauled hogsheads of water for the herd and at eventide Charlie noticed cne two year old heiffer chewing Her dnd with some difficulty He opened the heiffer's mouth thrust in his hand erasped the cud and drew it out, to x-r1d xUs9eS elastic band He showed it to his father and he said, "Oh, guess that's an old garter Jennie has thrown out. . However Uncle Abe Gas he is usual ly called by General Henry Bishop and his other farniIiars1 is a philoso- pher and that evening he sat a long time thinking@after the family had retired he went out to the cow barn and got a second milking from that two year old heifer and placed it in a row of small bottles. Then he went to bed He arose at cock crow and to his aInazement on top of each bottle was rubber nipple These he placed in Fred Gordon's store in, ChapinviIIe and they sold like hot cakes To make them ready for baby all one had to do was puncture the rubber nipple with hat pin and there you are. There is always 8 good sup ply of babies in Chapinville and the rush for these. Ho1stefn rubber nipple nursing DOLIlGS as Q0llF0IS0 G4Cl4SlES- ly by Uncle Abe began to grow to enormous proportions. However the scene changes, when rain fell, because it washed the clover clean and there was no more rubber for the cows to eat and the babies had to turn to other fountains of supply Time roll ed on through the fall to winter. When the cold snap came it was time 70 kill critter for home consump- tion-s:' MT. Gardner selected a COW 1+ e-E-, cordingly dressed and hung up in ssquarters' in the ice house. Now if there is anything more than anoth- CT good old fashioned farmer love it is tripe- This is where trouble began. The tripe was carefully pre- pared and cooked according to Jen- nie Gardeners best receipt, but when she and Charlie began supper both of them and MT. and Mrs. Gard dner and Walt sO1mstead found that their jaws flew open faster than they could close them They all sat around with their jaws flying back until Uncle Abe got mad and said Its that = rub Der again It got into the cows stom- ach last summer- He seized all the fripe there was In the rasher, took the lantern and went out to the wagon shed where Walt found him later naiI- ing the tripe on the axles of his farm wagon. There said Uncle Abe, "Ive been wanting to reinforce those springs TUT q AOA1S l4A1iS Sb11O L1iS r0D- Der tripe is just the thing" Then turning to Walt he said: Come in here I want to show you something,' 2 he led the way into the tool house. *sHere,'' he. said, stI found this in that critters stomach when I dressed her. It's rubber ball as hard as rock. Fine for, baseball, I'm going to give il to Clint Rhoarback SO that he can whang out home runs next summer when the Canaan nine play the Lake vile team"
 Walt scratched his head and said: elf you want Clint to make home runs you better give the ball to the Lake vile club and let Clint swat em.'' MT. Gardner is so impressed with his suc- cess in the rubber business instilled through his cows into a marketable product that he has doubled the num- Der of his herd, for next seasons rush
 J. H. s.