1 - Everyone’s familiar with those classic Western movies with the plot that centers on the battle for grazing rights between the cat tlemen and sheepherders. Here - for the first time - we can reveal the true story behind that epic conflict. »- It was not pasture grass, nor water access, that caused the On being a farm wife -And other hazards Joyce Bapp shedding of blood in the sheep cattle squirmishes. What happened was that those dainty-hoofed sheep marched across western ranches gobbling up the ranch wives’ flowers.' Don’t look so skeptical. I have living, breathing, mun ching proof that this was the probable cause. Remember Scooter, that baby lamb that arrived several weeks ago to be bottle-raised? She’s multiplied her birth weight and size several times, is covered with a thickening crop of creamy curls and now sports a “hay belly” resembling a helium-filled balloon. Her appetite is insatiable - and therein lies the problem. Not content to graze the yard or pastures, lush grass liberally sprinkled with white clover pat ches, Scooter had instead become a four-footed vegetative destruction derby with a taste for the forbidden fruits of the flower and a garden plantings. Our red climbing roses along the yard fence top- Scooter’s menu favorites. She’s stripped the blooms and leaves as high as her fuzzy, stubby neck can stretch. From the roses, she plods on down to the bank near the dairy barn, newly planted with several dozen strawberry plants which were to give us a productive, erosion-resistant ground cover. Are strawberry leaves conducive to the good health of lambs? The mangold sections were ignored and are apparently bad tasting, but Scooter made up for skipping them when she arrived next at the salvia section, where she munched the dozen plants to hare-stem nakedness. -Letting her trot along to the vegetable garden was my biggest mistake. Scooter discovered the DON'T BE SLOW Call Now To Place Your CLASSIFIED AD «i: 7T7-3M-3047 or 717-42*-11*4 r New Concept In Penetration And Adhesion. Average Barn *6so°° The farmers in Lancaster Co. are lucky because ofthe amount of competition in barn painting. Check with us for the best deal! PHARES S. HORST Try Rd 1. Box 420, Narvon, PA 17555 215-445-6186 DISABLED & CRIPPLED COWS, BULLS & STEERS Competitive Prices Slaughtered under government inspection Call: Frank Fillippo - Residence >215-666-0725 Elam Ginder - 717-367-3824 C.L. King - 717-786-7229 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 27,1951-Gll OTrmll row of sweet potato plants, which were just beginning to sprout credible - and edible - growth. They are no longer credible - nor edible - following Scooter’s latest in lamb lunches. So this cattle raiser has renewed the ancient cow-sheep conflict. However, this war is finally being won, not with a six-gun, but brand-new collar and ample length of chain. CALL US FOR FREE ESTIMATES on TOP QUALITY BARN SPRAY & BRUSH PAINTING Years of experience plus self employment gives you quality work for less expense. K A. , INC. ED Paid BRUNING
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