The Cow Country Chronicle

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 275, 24 February 1941, Page 6

The Cow Country Chronicle

' DAY LIGHT S(L)AVING" > WHAT OUR COWS CALL IT How do you like gelling up in tho morning in the dark ? That is a question you can ask Hie cows. Thej' have to get up and doing as early as the milkers and cow dogs. Old, Mrs Jersey cow says it's no fun at all to have one's beauty sleep disturbed about '1.30 a.m. (or earlier). It is pitch dark, or moonlight, at tiiat hour these February days. No cow likes being barked at before the sun is up. "Maybe it's all right for thei cow cockies to gel up so early in the morning," said Mrs Jersey sadly. "The coelvA' is generally suffering from insomnia, and simply r.an't stay betAveen the blankets. lie Avants to be up and milking, disturbing the peace of early morn,, because lie can't keep his mind off the big cheque he hopes to get next 20th."

. "Grasping felloAvs, these cockies," I said, "ahvays reaching out for the legrope or the bonus.

"But Ave poor cows," continued Mrs Jersey, "contend that milking in the dark is a blot on the escuatcheon. We demand that the cocky stay in bed till at least 6 a.m., and let avo coavs continue our slumbers till the sun is peeping over the eastern hills." (Loud moos of approval from the other Jerseys).

So now Ave know it

This daylight saA'ing business of putting the clock on half an hour and milking before daybreak is all

wx-ong. It is sheer daylight slaving for the

poor cows

girls!"

Ami Butferfat Beaconette

Edited by Esop Junr

I Let sleeping clogs (and cows) lie. ! Mr Cocky. But of course you won't, j Why can't our poor cows have j their beauty sleep the same as the I 10-hour-a-week people in tlia towns J who are dead to the world till the i siren goes at V a in.? (Perhaps). WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE WHAT THE COWS THINK ABOUT IT Ask the cocky who reads the advertisements and lie will tell you that "water increases farm profits 1 ' Funny thing now. That scmnds familiar. I wonder where I saw that . statement before. Water in the city milkman's milk may increase the milkman's prolics ■ —and make the milk look blue. So y will the milkman look blue if found out. But on the farm —how does water increase farm profits? Ask old Daisj-, boss cow of the herd.. She knows everything. "Yes, young fellow," she replies. "Its good to gulp down ten gallons or so if cool water straight off the ice—l mean straight out of the trough. And its no fun to see the bottom of the trough. Wti cows like to hear the pump thudding I away merrily, and the water gurgling into the trough." True enough. Why, on these hot summer days, when one cow meets another, the usual greeting is: "Come over to the trough and have a quick one!" As for the cocky who has a good water pump forcing the water through the pipes, he just smiles and says: "Be in! It's on the house,