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Show The Way It Worked. Cows have on awkward wny of switch-' switch-' ' ing their tails when you ate milking ' them so I havo tried a new scheme. 1 bought a few sheets of that stivky fly paper the druggists sell. On starting . , to milk, my plan is to caicfully spread on tho cows back a sheet of the sticky stuff and thus entrap tlm Hies. 1 know my plan is a good one for it worked splendidly for several dayp. Bosay soon learned to appreciate what I was doing for her and would hold very quiet for me to place the paper on her tendt r-r. r-r. , . loins and short ribs. If my private tcatrf wore a success my public one was a rank failure and I missed it by show-,, show-,, ing on" before Crosby. As he sat on ,'.VV "' the fence i ail I explained inv scheme ," ', to him and proceeded to illustrate the " opeiation. At ilrst all weni well. Iioi- , ay was standing as quiet as a lamb and '' the Hies were tangling themselves thir ty u minute on the paper when a wicked bos? ily alighted on the cow's ear, well out of reach of the trap. Boy, fol v. . thing, not lealizing that by no manner -' of means could she reach tier ear with her tail, made a wicked swipe at, the ' ' blue bottle, tilie missed the insei:t but succeeded in getting the chunk of sticky ', :v r ily paper attached to her tail. Surpri sed at catching anything with tha1 Jl. cluinay tail of hera she made u. second jf,-, )' .v very vicious suing and caught me on V - the aido ol the face with the plaster, buttered side down, of course. Stow .' that fly paper is the stickiest atutl the j$.,.- JiOrd ever pei milted to be made. We 1 f ' once had a cat that sat down on a sheet I of it and that cat hasn't sat since. I ' When the combination landed lightly 1 on my jaw, as tho prt.elightord say 1 there was a mixture ot lace, glue, cow 1 bair and Hies that must have been fear- I . ful to contemplate. I do not blame old I , mail Crosby for keeling over backwaik 1 oil' the 'iuce. lama sight even now Tho Btuff refuses to wash oil' or be scra- I . ped. IMolcl and Farm. |