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keep herself contented with it until the pasture grows. 

 Seeing that most of our young people seem to find 

 it necessary to provide themselves with cuds of dura- 

 ble, rubbery gum on which they chew during most of 

 their waking hours, isn't it just possible that our 

 cows would be more contented and give more milk if 

 we provided them with rubber cuds? If I could only 

 get scientific endorsement for the scheme I would 

 have no trouble in promoting a company to supply 

 rubber cuds for cows. Anyway, "Beans" seems to 

 have suffered no inconvenience from having swal- 

 lowed that indurated knob of gutta percha. When 

 I was driving her back to the field after milking she 

 hastily picked up a nice clean corn-cob and put it 

 down as dessert to the rubber ball all of wliich leads 

 me to believe that she inherits her grandmother's di- 

 gestion as well as her appetite. I am willing to bet 

 that a post mortem on Fenceviewer would reveal a 

 collection of junk that would give impaction of the 

 rumen to an ostrich. Still, if any authority on cows 

 thinks that having a rubber ball in her midst may be 

 injurious to "Beans," I wish he would write and tell 



me what I should do. 



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