Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1913 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

So dry are pastures around Pleasant Hill, Mo„ that farmers are feeding their trees to their cows. In some instances farmers facing a shortage of feed have resorted to cutting limbs ’from oak trees and tossing them to‘ their stock. So fond have the cattle become of this delicacy, according td a prominent farmer, that they strain the fences in their anxiety for the next meal when they hear the ax and saw.