The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-01-09
MOTHERS
OF HUMAN RAGE
IN CHI. PARADE

Washington, Jan 5.--Dolled up in
all the finery known to cowdom, the
veritabe fashion plate of the animal
lkingdom, Bessie and her mates have
4 been on parade recently at the Union
Stock Yards, Chicago, where the Ma
tional Dairy show was held. The auto
lists 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 hui
man race, should annually stand pub
| lie inspection and graciously receive
| plaudits and acclaim and honorable
decoration for her efficient, consist
ent, persistent, and insistent efforts
to furnish an abundance of nutritious
and sanitary food for mankind.
Bessie is always at her best at the
dairy show, and after she has been
manicured, massaged, shampooed, clip
ped, curried, and groomed to the
| sickness of race horse, it is small
wonder that she struts like a peacock
as she comes from the Judging ring
with the blue ribbon, the croix de
guerre of the dairy matrons, attached
| to her halter. She may be a 100000
beauty with an elaborate pedigree, or
she may be just an average purebred
COW, previously not listed on the dairy
scroll of fame. The spectators honor
her just the same and in some in
stances become so boisterous as to
cast their hats skyward in celebra
tion of her victory
Bossies kitchen cupboard is a
pantry which bellies the old nursery
rhyme as today ii must be overflow
ing with the goodies Of the COW world,
if the old lady is to attend consist
emily to her knitting.
Consumers who bemoan the rising
grocery and meat prices and who la
tnClb lIui lHtll AdiilHCO dlO SO SCf
figure the task OF keeping 10 or 20
COWS happy, contented and satisfied
at grub time as colossal job as tip
ping over the Pyramids with a crow
bar after they have visited the ex-
hibit of the United States department
of agriculture. There was pictured
in life size the amount of feed that
is required to keep Bessie geared for
heavy production throughout the year,
During a eriod of two years I'm
Gle Sam kept one-year records on
about 74O cows in northern Indiana,
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 Por-
ter county, Ind, grade Holstein cows
to the dairy show to let the people
see what kind of critter it took to
stow away the vOluminous supply of
feed This COW with her two-weeks-
old son, Johnny, travelled to Chicago
luxuriously in O chartered motor, and
at the dairy show she was daily the
center of interest as she stood in
stanchion and stall, with Johnny in a
pen close by. In order that she might
not get lonesome, her surroundings
were made as rural as possible, in
Guiding 1926 pounds Of silage in a
silo by II feet, 2,5g7 pounds of al
falfa hay in stack, 734 pounds of
corn fodder in the bundle, eight bales
of straw weighing 720 pounds for
bedding, 1893 pounds of ground feed
in sacks, a pile of 848 pounds Of
homegrown corn, and the use Of
nearly one and one-half acres of pas
ture for six months, this being repre-
sented by sodding with turf an area
Of the exhibit close at hand.
Plenty of Milk Even for Atlas.
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
milk, 1-2 by 8 feet in size, contain
ing 6,9S7 pounds, equivalent to 1927
quarts, the production of the COW in
one year. Yes, Bessie has some appe-
tite, but do not forget that she has
four stomachs and it takes pile Of
chow to keep them all busy at once
so that she can chew her cud and ru-
inmate at will, the pastime which all
COWS enjoy.
A chart was employed to show the
amounts of feed which the average