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Show f Cows With a, " JLg." :t i Fermented Apples Work Demoralization on Fine Herd of Jersey Cattle. Fifteen fine Jersey cows on the Whitney Point Stock Farm went on a disgraceful spree last Monday and almost al-most frightened the men in charge of them out of their wits. For a long time no one knew just what was the matter with the cows. They went reeling across the fields like a lot of drunken soldiers, rolling their eyes, and every once in a while giving vent to the most hideous howls. When they got tired they either leaned against one another or against the fences, and that was the way the men found them when they screwed up enough courage to go out in the field and investigate. A hurry call was sent to Blngham-ton Blngham-ton for a veterinary, because there was such unmistakable signs of suffering suf-fering on the part of the cows that the men thought they were poisoned. When the veterinary took a look at the cows he was puzzled. They were glassy-eyed and tired. Those that had fallen asleep were sleeping so soundly that they couldn't be waked up even with a pitchfork. The local veterin-aries veterin-aries were called in to assist the man from Binghamton, and the three sat up with the cows all night long. The next morning the cows appeared ap-peared to be all right. True, most of them looked a trifle ashamed, but on the whole they seemed in fair shape and quite ready to go back to eating grass and making milk. It wasn't until un-til the cows were turned out for their morning drink, and almost dried up the creek in the field, that the veteri-naries veteri-naries got an inkling of what had been the matter. "Well, I swan," said the man from Binghamton. "I do believe them there cows was drunk last night. What did yer give them to eat?" "They couldn't be drunk, Doc," said the boss keeper, " 'cuz there ain't any-thin' any-thin' in this here stockfarm ter make man nor beast drunk. All them cows has had out of the usual feed this week is a wagon-load of apples that was dumped in the field on Sunday." "Well, I'm clear dinged," said the Binghamton man. "I hearn tell on a thing like this hpppenin' once afore, but I never see it myself. Say, d'yer know what was the matter of them cows? Well, they was drunk from them apples. "Now, see here. Them cows has two stomachs, and when you gave 'em them apples they just loaded up the second stomach, where they stores things, like all ruminants doe3, with apples. They kept them there till they fermented and then they all got drunk. That's just what was the matter mat-ter of them cows." The logic of this explanation appealed ap-pealed to the local veterinaries, and they agreed as to the cause of the jag. Undoubtedly this explanation is the correct one, as the cows have been all right ever since. New York Sun. |