The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-02
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

Evidently my Jersey COW, now no long CT Miss 1slay May, but Madame Islay May, for recently she dropped as pretty heifer calf as I ever saw. made hit. for so many have Stopped me on the street to ask about her
 Now, in the beginning, I said the story was to be triangle one, about father and his two sons. Now here is where l introduce Proctor, the younger one. When Frank reached home from the safe and announced in glee that I had bought him a fine Jersey COW, naturally Proctors nose got bit out of joint, and who could blame him?
 With Solomon-like judgment I calmly announced that when Islay May threw a calf it was to be his. This naturally brought on some talk between the Bar nett brothers. I let them arrange the matter to their own satisfaction. Frank, the elder, agreed to do the major part of the work, but believe it fell to Proc tor to do the watering and the tieing out of the COW, for there is sood pas turage all around me This was the agreement and boys make one another live ,p to their contracts or there is q row.
 I tried to make the buying of the scow assume the nature of an investment for Barnett & Sons furnished the capital, and they were to do the work. It was up to me to pay for her and furnish the food Now if you have never. kept books on . COW, you have an experience in bookkeeping coming to you which will eElighten you on the high cost of Keep ing a COW on city lot To give you ar idea, the first thing needed was a halter, that called for dollar Then there was call for chain to stake her out and this cost two dollars,
 played in luck on the COW house, for since the chicken thieves had so con sistentiy and persistently kept my chicken house unoccupied 1 concluded would just convert 1t inta. barn. have done much writing and more talking about the need of "a balanced ration, and that the crying need of the day was to feed scientifically. I am well up on tho literature of the subject through gov- ernment bulletins, books and agricultur- al journals. Then my desk in the news room of the paper isrnext to Moses. tho farm editor and I just naturally imbibe much agricultural information.
 But believe me. if you really want to get inside information on the art of feed ing and what it takes to satisfy cattle, just begin in a modest way and experi ment with COW, and at tho end of six months you willlhave spent much more time and money than you ever dreamed was required to keep her in good humor so that her flow of milk would keep rum, hing. It has been said d<you get out of a COW what you put in her. If this be. true there ought to be stream of dol lars dropping into the milk pail
 used to be loud-mouthsd in my stric- lures on the dairy trust which had Bir- minsham at its mercy, but after few months' experience am beginning to think that sweet milk at 10 cents q pint Is the cheapest thing on the mar . t and that to sell fresh butter at % cents a pound is to give itsaway. think some one told me that a COW had four storn- achs. am not surprised. for if they had said a half. dozen would have ac- cepted it without a word of protest. If you arc at all skeptical on the question. juss try and ksepS them all nlled and you will Be >cur>d of your doubts.
 Nov fer the inside history of the nnan. cial part of the triangle. The price of the COW was to be charged against her and all that she ate or had spent on her T was the base of the triangle. Frank was to mflk her and sst credit for ah 'used in the home or that was sold. Proc tor was to inherit the calf for his rood