The cow is regarded as one of the least intelligent of animals, but even they, when one of t-heir herd is up against it, are not lacking in charity and resource. The weed tutu is known to be a deadly poison to cattle., A heifer in a herd which had been turned out into the bußh at Taieri Gorge had strayed and eaten tutu early on a recent morning. Before it could die of tfce poison the other cows exercised their 1 resources upon it. Literally . they horned it' and chased it, and flew at its tail, belowing meanwhile so that a continuous uproar was caused."* A member of the unemployed had pitched his bunk in an unused house, and heard a prolonged noise through the slender partition as he was awakening. He sprang to the door. The stricken heifer stood, in a steam of sweat. The other cows stood about in a ring. Their good .deed was done; tlio heifer would not' die becayse the poison had come out with'the sweat."
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20492, 10 March 1932, Page 8
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