Care of the Cows

1896

Have you ever watched your cows on a bitter cold day sneak slowly up to the water trough where you have broken the ice and stick her tongue in the cold water several times until she got used to it, then take a little sip and a little more until she could stand no more of it. Then she will walk slowly over the frozen ground until she gets in the shelter of an old wagon, and there with her back humped up she will stand for two or three hours shivering until what feed she has eaten has had time to warm that water up to a living temperature?

How long ought it to take a sensible man to find out where all of his feed is going, no matter whether it is a milk cow or a dry one. Nearly every pound she eats is needed to warm that water, and little is left to repair the body, much less to make milk or fat of. The simplest kind of a heating apparatus will cost not over ten cents a day to heat the water for a small herd twice a day. It will pay for itself twice over during the winter in food it will save and the milk it will allow the cows to make, and it will do the same in adding flesh to the other cattle, especially the young ones.

Then go a step further and buy some boards to build a shed that the poor things may have a dry place to stand and lie down under with a wind break against the cold piercing storms. These are not only acts of humanity, but they appeal directly to the pocketbook. They make the stacks of hay, the corn fodder and the meal bin go nearly twice as far, to say nothing of increasing the profits of the milch cows.

If a liberal allowance of straw, leaves or other trash is scattered under the shed the amount of manure saved will far more than repay the cost and trouble of collecting it, while it greatly adds to the comfort of the animals. If you are not too tired by this time, then get you a sharp butcher's saw and take the horns off dent from the boss cow and steers, and then the younger ones. This is the best time of year to do it, when there are no flies to bother. — Home and Farm.

Chicken Thieves Steal 200 Chickens, Leave Eight

Van Wert, Ohio, 1919
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NEARBY HAPPENINGS.

Lake Shore Freight Train Wrecked Near Tiffin – Current Events of Local Interest.

Judge William Klinger of the court of common pleas, Lima, ordered Mabel Faulkner Bowers, Lima, to go to the country home of her husband, Herman W. Bowers, Northern Allen county, and there establish a home and live with her husband. Judge Klinger refuted a divorce, sought by the wife. She charged abandonment.

Mrs. Aronlad Claty, Westson, is in serious condition at the home of her sister. Mrs. B. S. McCann, of Bowling Green, as a result of an auto accident, in which Mrs. Claty sustained a three- inch cut on her forehead, a deep gash on both upper and lower lips and a fractured cheekbone.

The Catholic high school boys of Delphos have organized a basket ball team with Sylvester Schmelzer, manager and Otto Kihm, assistant. The girls team will be managed by Adeline Gremling and Miss Adelie Plescher, assistant.

David Franklin Gaumer, eon of Editor and Mrs. Bruce B. Gaumer, of Marysville, died to-day after a brief illness caused by eating toad stools. The boy's temperature reached one hundred and seven before he died.

Three cows were killed and traffic was held up at Stryker when a broken axle caused seven loaded cattle cars of a fast Lake Shore freight to telescope there at seven o'clock. Traffic was locked on all three tracks.

The funeral of Mrs. A. R. Morton, nee Naomi Dugan, of Evanston, Ill., will occur Sunday afternoon at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan, of Decatur. Death was due to septic poisoning.

It is predicted that the golden jubilee celebration to be held by Norwalk Commandery No. 18 Knights Templars October 13, 14 and 15, will be one of the most imposing events of the kind ever held in Ohio.

Chicken thieves visited the coops of the Simon Good farm, several miles East of Delphos and stole two hundred birds, leaving eight. There is no explanation why the eight were not taken.

Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Bird, of Ottawa, were severely cut and bruised when their automobile was struck by a B. & O. train at Columbus Grove.

Edwin Mauk, well known Delphos boy, has made the Western Reserve varsity foot ball team, and will play as a regular.

The funeral of the late Thomas Weger, of Delphos, will be held Tuesday afternoon, two o'clock.

--The Van Wert Daily Bulletin, Van Wert, Ohio, September 27, 1919, page 3.