The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-11-14
FOSTER MOTHER ON PARADE
FIX FASHIONS IN CHICAGO
Elite of Cow Society Admired at Ma
tional Dairy Show.-Exhibit
Many Fine Animals.

DOlled up IN all the flnery known
to cowdom, the veritable fashion plate
of the animal kingdom, Bessie and
her mates have been on parade re-
Gently at the Union Stock Yards, at
Chicago, where the National Dairy
show was held. The autoists have a
motor show, the florists have flower
shows, the tailors have style shows,
and it is only fitting that Bessie, the
foster mother of the human race,
should annually stand public inspec-
ton and graciously receive plaudits
and acclaim and honorable decoration
for her efficient, persistent, and in
sistent efforts to furnish an abund-
anc of nutritious and sanitary food
for mankind.
Bessie is always at her best at
the dairy show, and after she has been
m%anicured, m~assaged, shampooed, clip
ped, curried and groomed to the sleek
ness Of a ace horse, it is small Won
der that she struts like a peacock
as she comes from the judging ring
with the blue ribbon, the CROW de
guerre Of the dairy matrons, attached
to her halter. She may be a $780,
600 beauty with an elaborate pedigree,
or she may be just an average pure
bred cow, previously not listed on the
dairy scroll of fame. The spectators
honor her just the same and in some
instances become so boisterous as to
cast their hats skyward in celebra-
ton of her victory.
Bossie's kitchen cupboard is a pam
try which bellies the old nursery rhyme
as today it must be overlooking with
the goodies of the COW world, if the
old lady is to attend consistently to
her knitting. Consumers who bemoan
the rising grocery and meat prices
and who lament that their families are
so large, figure the task of keeping
10 to 20 cows happy, %contented, and
satisfied at grub time as colossal a
job as tipping over the pyramids with
a crowbar, after they have visited the
exhibit of the United States depart
ment of agriculture. There was pic
tured there in life size the amount of
feed it required to keep Bessie gear
ed for heavy production throughout
the year. During a period of two
years Uncle Sam kept one-year rec
ords on about 740 cows in northern In
diana, and the different amounts of
feed in the dairy dietary as shown at
the cow congress were grand averages
of these Investigations.
Uncle Sam imported one of the
Porter county, Indiana, grade Holstein
cows to the dairy show to let the
people see what kind of a COW it took
to stow away the voluminous supply
of feed. This cow with her two-weeks-
old son, Johnny, travelled to Chica-
go l%uxuriously in a chartered motor,
and at the dairy show she was daily
the center of interest as she stood in
stanchion and still, with Johnny in a
pen close by. In order that she might
not get lonesome, her surroundings
were made as rural as possible, and
a years supply of provender, includ-
ing 1926 pounds of silage in a silo
5 by II feet, 1867 pounds of alfalfa
hay in a stack, 734 pounds of corn fod-
der in the bundle, eight bales of straw
weighing 720 pounds for bedding,
1913 pounds of homegrown corn,
and the use of nearly one and one-half
acres of pasture for six months, this
being represented by sodding with
turf an area of the exhibit close at
hand.
Even Atlas, exhausted from his
strenuous efforts of holding up the
earth, would have had to gorge him.
self to consume the huge bottle Of