Eureka Reporter | 1905-10-20 | Page 7 | Fish Had Been Living High

HAD BEEN LIVING HIGH milked cows which cooled off in lr r gat on D aches the were exchanging fish stories says the san francisco call to change the subject interrupt ed charles D pierce I 1 ve been hav ing a deuce of a time with some of my dairy stock up on the ranch the ranch covers a lot of reclaimed land in the san joaquin river system where the soil is the richest in the world and beautifully adapted to dairy ing but during the warm weather of the last several weeks everything has been going wrong with the cows I 1 have some imported shorthorns that hold world records as producers of cream and butter but strange to re late all of their records have been going groag e kot pint from one oi our biggest milk producers one day and a lot of the other stock fell off amazingly there was nothing wrong with their teed tor the grass la a foot high in the pasture we ve been the floodgates and letting the river water run into the ditches and during the hot weather the cows have been lying around in the hyater half the time I 1 thought this might have something to do with the trouble but we solve the mystery until one of the dairy hands went fishing the other day and brought in some carp that he caught in one of the ditches the river is full of immense carp and large numbers of them had passed through the floodgates into the pas ture say you wont believe it but the carp that fellow caught were full of milk up to their eyebrows those ravenous fish have been milking those shorthorns all summer