AN UNNATURAL COW.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 7 April 1921, Page 3

AN UNNATURAL COW.

Writing to a local resident, a farm lad at Mata Mata sends the following peculiar experience : — "This morning while we were milking, one of the cows took a strange fit or went mad, I don't know which. There were ten cows in the yard, and this one was standing near me, chewing her cud. I was thinking what a nice quiet cow she was, when all of a sudden she stopped chewing, and her eyes became very bright, and her face very intelligent. She put her ears forward and craned her neck and tried to crow, but failed. She craned her neck and tried again and succeeded, with startling results. A hideous, piercing cock-a-doodle-do rang through the COW yard and echoed amongst the trees. The other cows gave one mighty bellow, jumped through the fence and galloped down the paddock with their tails in the air. The marl cow looked round the cowshed in a self-satisfied inauiier, then walked through the broken fence and out into the paddock. Mr Harding's horse was quietly eating grass near the fence The cow walked towards the horse and stopped. She craned her nock and prepared to crow again. The horse pricked iup his ears and snorted, Another j piercing crow rent the air. The borso ! gave a terror-stricken snort and jumped j clean over the fence into the water | trough with a groat splash, When he i extricated himself he kicked the trough ; an'l g.illo : >e.l away, neighing pite.i isl/ ; With something approaching a sarcasfo i smile the cow resumed chewing her I cud." 'I'll.i riw sva-; o/i 1 ■■:!i.i.v .i/"I •.■■H',l I by the high price of belter-fat.