Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — A Canine Cow-Milker. [ARTICLE]

A Canine Cow-Milker.

What has been a mystery for some weeks to the dairy people on Colonel K. M. Lvnehurst’s stock farm, situated nine miles from Bushvillo, Penn., was solved a night or two ago by a shrewd milker known as Jim. Into Jim’s special care was entrusted tho Colonel’s well blooded, pedigreed cow called Kentucky Rose, which has been accustomed to give three full gallons of rich milk daily. But all at once Kentucky Itoso dwindled down to a gallon, scarcely enough for her calf. Jim was puzzled over the mystery. Every night watchers were set to try and solve the problem. One night, after waiting until nearly morning, tho party started for home, when all at once the Colonel saw a white object shoot across a patch of moonlight. He and Jim returned to Kentucky Rose’s stall, the furthest from tho sleeping rooms of the men, just as Jessamine Bell managed to squeeze himself through the narrow pass into the stall. The two men then noiselessly climbed to tho loft above, and there they saw the setter on his hind logs steadily draining tho cow as dry as his capacity admitted. At last Kentucky Rose, no doubt aggrieved at the wrong done her offspring, who were compelled to go hungry, turned about and gave him a severe punch in the side, and it was to this treatment, undoubtedly, that tho setter owed his present adornment. Tho next day he was seen to steal to the pasture, to give himself another good “tuck-in,” but on looking up he saw hi* master and the man just gazing at him with laughing countenances. He dropped his tall and disappeared for days, avoiding the other animals and the men on the place, as well as his master, us if he felt guilty of having been a sly, greedy and treacherous dog.—| New York Telegram.