Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-15

as Nature intended. the modern calf
is torn from it's mother only few
days after birth and fed cold skim
milk out of a pail.
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intellectually and morally, a very
good case cannot be made out for
the cow" Mr.. Van Wagenen de-
clares. Her standards of ethics and
honor are low. In her conduct to-
| ward the other members of the herd
she is both cruel and cowardly.
The cow shows herself mean cow
, ard, because frequently, if one cow is
fast in the stanchion and hence I'M
able to defend herself, another not
yet fastened will pitch in and gore
her most numerically until she bel
lows with pain and terror.
THE thrilling moment in the life
of a COW is that wonderful day in late
May when, after a long Winter of
confinement in the barn, she is again
turned out to the pasture. That gala
day stirs up all her old instincts and
hereditary memories. Playfulness ex-
cept in the calf is rare among cattle,
but in the first hours at pasture the
whole herd will often indulge in a
wild rush, circling the field with tails
carried erect, high over the back like
banners and with strange, awkward
cavorting and galloping-for all the
world like the rush of a lot of young
sters let out of school. The most
ardent admirer--or apologist--for the
COW can hardly claim for her grace of
movement"
Is there person living who has
not seen n cowpath? If so, they
should take a trip to the country next
Summer and see one. There is ro-
nance there. Our author says:
CAS- commonplace thing as a cow
path. by the way, is really a record
worth studying and musing. The
same path is followed year after
year, and if obliterated by blowing
and later the field Is again returned
to pasture. it will be re-established,
following almost exactly the same
course. The explanation is simply
that the cow is a postmaster in the
engineering art of choosing the
easiest grade between two points.
Emphatically she does not go over a
knoll, she goes around. and one can
only wish that the pioneers who were
responsible for the roads through our
hill country might have had just a
little of this cow good sense
Of the cows intelligence. Mr.. Van
Wagenen further says: II do not
know that the most enthusiastic lover
of the cow will contend that she is
remarkable for her intelligence. She
has neither the spirit and courage of
the horse nor the love of mankind
that marks the dog. nor the devotion
to locality as distinguished from at
tachment to persons that distin-
cuisines the cat, and / am afraid the
common barnyard variety of hog is
her intellectual superior. This is as
1t should be. for the extreme dairy
temperament is characterized by
placidity, not to say a phlegmatic dis
position"
1t is plain from this whole book
that the author feels sorry for the
cow; yet she is of such a tempera-
ment herself that sorrow does not
touch her. She yields milk to man,
If not gracefully, at least with little
fuss, and comes to look upon him in
all ways as her protector
Her wonderful milk goes forth to
the cities, to bring up races of human
children, and to be converted into
milk chocolate and butter and scores
of other products. No matter how
intricate the manufacturing process
or how far-f1ung the transportation
system, behind it all stands the faith.
full COW, curious, strange Bos Taurus,
forever answering to the old cry, Go.
boss"