(Continued from Pago A 1) injuries to beef cattle than to daily cattle, though. The dairy cows seem content to hang around the barnyard where it’s relatively safe, but the beef cattle arc used to ranging out into the fields and they get out onto the worst of the ice.” Dr. Miller concurs that the price that the northern Maryland coun ties will have paid in destroyed livestock is likely to be much higher than anyone could have foreseen. He says that he knows of at least another SO or more head of cattle that have been destroyed in his end of the state, bringing the total to over a hundred head in just those two areas alone. Dr. Miller, as well as Dr. Mike Krome of Westminster had to use his tractor to get to stranded Angus cows. 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I was so sure that she had a least one broken leg, if not more, that I just walked back to the truck to get some more stuff to put her out with before I even tried to examine her. When I turned around and started back toward her, I’ll be darned if- she didn’t look right at me, stand up, and start walking! I guess she was more scared of me than she was of the footing, and right about then she had good reason!” The cattle that had fallen on the ice were not the only concern that Maryland farmers had. There were herds of cows, many of them bred, who could not get out of wooded areas where they had gone to shelter from the weather to get to feed, hay or water. 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Mike loaded hay into his farm wagon and took it as far across the icy ridge as his tractor would safe ly go, and the young men carried it through the fields, bale by bale to Dr. William Rosenberger of Reisterstown Veterinary Cen ter returns from a day that started with emergencies before dawn. Pennsylvania’s Authorized Master Distributor Northeast Agri Systems, Inc. Flyway Business Park 139 A West Airport Road Lititz, PA 17543 Ph; (717) 569-2702 1-800-673-2580 W Lancaster Fawning, SatuMay, February 19, 1994-A27 the stranded cattle. Carolyn says, "It took most of one day just to gel enough hay to that many hungry cows, because as soon as the boys got a bale over the fence, it just disappeared! I felt so sorry for the boys... I think they fell down with those bales as much as they stood up, but they just kept on going until all those cows were fed. 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