Bl2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 29,1983
Cussing at cows, warns a
Russian folklore specialist, is
partly the reason that Soviet milk
production has been steadily
declining in recent years.
With U.S. milk production
continuing to head the otter
direction, what does that say about
how our domestic dairymen feel
about, and treat, their matronly
milkers?
Not that a cow or two might not
win a few choice words now and
then on most any farm. (On this
farm, however, cussing - period - is
frowned upon.)
But in every crowd of cows, Just
as in any crowd of people, there
are those couple of characters than
unendingly try your patience and
somehow manage to be out
standingly ornery.
Etta, a heifer near the far end of
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On being
a farm wife
-And other
hazards
Joyce Bnpp
the stall bam here would probably
win the “Aggravator of the Year”
statuette if a vote would be taken
at the moment.
Excitable Etta might be a more
appropriate label. Etta works up in
a lather when she sees milkers
approaching. Not upset. Just
excited.
She’s also doggone nosy, and has
the habit of sticking her broad
black and white nose under the
belly of her neighbor, Arlene, as
that cow is being prepped for
milking.
Arlene, at the same time, is not
you most unflappable animal, and
doesn’t cotton too well to being
poked and prodded with such in
timacy from her nosy neighbor.
Arlene’s reaction to Etta’s little
peek-a-hoo-beneatb-th&beDy game
is to send the milkers flying.
Occasionally she’ll connect with
the operator as well.
On an angle across the alleyway
is another Interesting youngster.
Amazing, sometimes, how a cow
name so perfectly fits the in
dividual.
Jig is our current dancer in the
herd. All we’d need to do is outfit
her with a colorful kilt and a bag
pipe, and we could enter her
choreographed routine around the
stall in a Scottish folk festival.
Still, Jig’s no problem to milk -
unless you have trouble hitting
four moving targets with the teat
cups.
And, then, there’s Dee, a
newcomer to the herd, and a
specialist in head and neck aerobic
exercises.
Dee is over-friendly to male
milkers, routinely yanking off
their hats to lick the silage-dusted
heads beneath.
Women, however, get a different
treatment Charlie, our super
duper herdsman, speculated that
Dee dislikes women. She in
nocently waits until one of us two
legged females gets within
whacking distance, and then
swings that muscular, hard
skulled head with the force of a
battle-ax.
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Dee is not my favorite cow. the barn.
Interestingly, Dee. Etta and- u Gu f“_/ hi ? h ** 1 « eneraUy
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