BtLancaster Farming, Saturday, January 16, 1988 JL M On being a farm wife I -And Joyce Bupp For persons to come bursting into my kitchen, bearing the latest in personal injuries, is not at all unusual around here. Sometimes they hobble there through the office, or ease in by the back door, or come running, drip ping blood in their wake. Blessed ly, most have been of the everday bump-bruise-abrasion style of wounds, patchable with Band- Aids, first-aid ointment, peroxide, yards of gauze and an assorted col lection of adhesive tapes we’ve accumulated over the years. Thus, when the farmer appeared beside the kitchen sink recently, blood oozing from his face in two spots, his clothing manure ornamented, 1 barely blinked. My usual comment - “Looks like that could use a stitch” - got the usual response. Ignored. On to the next issue. “What happened?” Seems a near-yearling heifer that had just had her feet trimmed hadn’t been too pleased with the attention. While being led through the dairy bam toward the heifer pens, the “leadership” role changed. She took off running. He refused to let go of her halter, even tually being dragged, face-first, over the square-edged, steel grates covering the manure gutter. The square edges had nicely sliced two small gashes in his face, while neatly cleaning off that section of gutter. Luckily, during the belly down slide, his forehead hadn’t connected with one of the angled edges of the concrete stalls. Earlier, I’d helped move that ALADDIN MINI- HEATER I • Quiet powerful fan r now $1 OA°o International iVT* I feA Corporation ONLY | Mi | We Will oy UPS Cal For information LEOLA KEROSENE HEATING CENTER 93 W Main St. Laolt, PA Rt 23 A 772 6 mi. East of Lane Mon. thru Fn. to 9. Sat 9-5 '{7l7) 656-6408 J*. heifer down for her toenail trim. She’d thrown a super tantrum against being moved. Anywhere. Then I remembered something. And it made perfectly good sense. “You realize,” I reminded the farmer, “that her name’s ‘angel’.” Over the years, we’ve tried to name our animals sensible sounding names that don’t look too outrageous on show signs or in advertising. A bunch of ’em have backfired. The label “Angel” for a heifer possessed with such devilish, ornery characteristics is but the latest in a string of mis naming. “Best” immediately comes to mind. A heifer just recently fresh and milking her first lactation, Best is anything but. Of only mod erate size and mediocre appear ance, her back droops, her udder is nothing to brag about, and she manages to maintain one of the messiest stalls in the bam. Of similar disappointment was the calf once optimistically labeled “Beautiful.” Beautiful turned out similar to “Best.” Or maybe a bit worse, as I recall. (Friends once raised. sisters named Best and Beautiful and they developed into two of the Holstein breed’s out standing individuals.) 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