Bl2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 4,1983
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What is it that takes fresh green
grass, fermented-smelling silage,
long, stemmy hay, golden com,
mixes it with such assorted goodies
as protein concentrates, sugar beet
or citrus pult, cotton seed, alfalfa
cubes, sloshes it up with gallons
and gallons of water, chews it all
up, runs it through four stomachs
and then gives it back in fresh,
sweet, nutritious milk?
Why, of course you know. A cow.
“It’s a miracle," I recently
overheard a dairy princess say, in
explanation to one puzzled
youngster over how the above
could ever take place.
Sometimes I’m inclined to
believe that, not only is a cow a
miracle, but the characters who
spend their lives devoted to cows
are more than a bit miraculous as
well.
Then there are other days when
there’s no doubt in my mind that
they are, instead, a bit flaky. ’ ’
To the dyed-in-the-wool (er,
hide) dairyman, the mooing of a
cow is a siren song that sings
forever on the wind, an elusive
magical charm that draws him on
in a restless search. It stirs in full
grown, seemingly-sensible human
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BLOOMSBURG
Ed's Shoe Repair
232 Iron Street
717-784-3819
CARLISLE
Dutreys Shoe Store
26 N Hanover Street
717-249-4839
CHAMBERSBURG
Gale Diehl Sporting Goods
54 Lincoln Way West
717-264-6074
EASTON
Josephs Inc.
222 Northampton Street
215-258-0071
GREENCASTLE
ELM Dept. Store
On The Square
717-597-3710
HUGHESVILLE
Marks Shoe & Repair
22 South Mam
717-584-2616
JOHNSTOWN
Yankee Shoe Repair
230 Bedford Street
814-536-7747
KULPMONT
Archies Shoe Store
828 Chestnut
717-373-3360
KUTZTOWN
Waynes Dry Goods
271-273 West Mam Street
215-683-7686
UNCASTER
Reeds Shoe Store
1720 Columbia Avenue
717-299-2475
LEBANON
Martin’s
20 South Eighth Street
717-273-5665
MADISONBURG
Fisher Harness &
Shoe Corp.
Star Route, Box 47
beings a relentless quest and a
downright willingness to give up
the nine-to-five, weekends-off,
lifestyle in search for that most
desirable beast: the perfect
bovine.
A cow can cause an owner to
shed tears of frustration as she
lays stretched and rigid on the
ground, battling mightily to
deliver a big bull calf, stuck
midway in birth. ’*
Rest and relaxation are
sacrificed uncomplainingly, while
a worried owner keeps pacing vigil
and administers bottles of
medication and prayer against a
case of milk fever that just won’t
respond.
Tons of feed are carried lovingly
to each cow in a year’s time,
carefully weighed and balanced,
and then in turn must be carried
back out in the form of nutrient
rich wastes that will enrich the
soil, and enable her two-legged
“slaves” to grow yet more feed so
that Bossy may never know
hunger.
And, in a moment of pique
because of a single loose place in
the fence, as the cows head, heels
high, over the hill and into the
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waving cornfield, the dairyman risen and fallen, all over the lure of because of her incessant demands
may curse the day he ever heard of the dairy cow. on time and financial resources,
this four-leveed dictator. She has brought countless „ , T .„„ ,
Fortunes have been won - and families closer together in the tn
lost - because of cows. Fame, common bond of working together made dairymen to
friendship, and partners have in caring for her. and split others °
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RED WING DEALERS
MIFFLINTOWN
Troyers Shoe Saddle
R.D 2, Box 219
MILTON & WILLIAMSPORT
Leesers Shoe Store
18 Broadway, 2000 E 3rd St
717-742-8241 or 326-0211
NORTHUMBERLAND
Fryes Dept. Store
82 Queen Street
717-473-8751
pottstown
Strand Shoe Repair
313 High Street
215-323-4357
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QUAKERTOWN
Moyers Shoes
316 West Broad Street
215-536-6376
QUARRYVILLE
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107 East State Street
717-786-2795
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READING
R P Longeneckers
Muhlenberg Shopping Ctr.
215-921-0571
RED LION
Jack Contino Shoe Store
61 North Mam Street
717-244-3105
REHRERSBURG
Leo's Shoe Store
Godfrey Street
717-933-8169
SALLADASBURG
Cohicks Trading Post
Jersey Shore
717-398-0311
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN
Geary’s Family Shoes
334 W Columbia St
717-385-0355