Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1910 — A Choice of Calves. [ARTICLE]

A Choice of Calves.

The difficulties the early Virginian colonists had with their live stock la curiously illustrated by the fact that in the colony of Massachusetts Bay a red calf was cheaper than a black one. experience having shown that the former was more likely to be attacked by wolves, owing, it was thought, to the wolves mistaking it for a deer.