Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1910 — COWS IN HILARIOUS FROLIC [ARTICLE]

COWS IN HILARIOUS FROLIC

Make Bacchanalian Raid on Cider Milt, Easily Accumulating Joyous Old Jag. Rocksburg, N. J.—When the workers at the Warren county cider mill, near here, went home the other day at noon they left the trough of apple mash uncovered, with the result that a herd of ten cows from an adjoining farm, wandering in from the inclosure, ate most of it. Farmhands were attracted to the place a short time later. The cows were frisking about, kicking into the air and assuming attitudes that in a human being would have been described as hilarious. Puzzled at these antics, the farmers became worried when one after another of the cows sank to the ground. Believing the prevalent epidemic of hog cholera had reached the supposed immune cows, they summoned a veterinarian, whose diagnosis relieved the anxiety of the situation. y “Just a Jersey cider jag of untoward proportions,” was his verdict The cows’ heads were bathed in ice water and tn a short time they recovered, since which time they have refused all food, subsisting on copious draughts from the pasture spring.