Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1917 — COW GETS ARMY RECOGNITION [ARTICLE]

COW GETS ARMY RECOGNITION

Soldiers Permitted to Own, Animal, Paying Upkeep From Ration Savings. Washington. —Soldiers in the army not only may keep a cow, but they can feed it at government expense, provided they consume the milk, says a ruling of the judge advocate general. The decision was rendered on the question of whether feed for a cow kept by a detachment of soldiers for the production of milk for the detachment mess could legally be purchased from the ration savings, in view of the regulation that “such savings shall be used solely for the purchases of articles of food.”