Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1919 — SOON WILL BE OF THE PAST [ARTICLE]

SOON WILL BE OF THE PAST

Georgia Wild Cows Seem to Have Served Their Purpose, and Are Feet Disappearing. The plney woods cow, long a chum of the rasorbkek hog, is fading from the Georgia landscape. It is a poignant thought. She is one of the last links that binds Georgia to the paaL Thousands of her roamed over the great plantations that would now be condemned as undemocratic. She was usually rod and white—a “pidod" cow —inclined to have a poor figure, humpbacked and somewhat knockkneed, and her eyes were closely situated, in the manner which psychologists shake their heads over, because it indicates the criminal bent. But upon the plney woods cow Georgia in the old days depended entirely for milk and butter. Many planters had hundreds of them, but they all ran wild, and one of the spring sports was to round them up and mark them. If a choice specimen should be captured, she was hard to feed, being unaccustomed te civilized fodder, for plney woods cows eat grass in summer and souse their heads up to the eyes in ponds in the winter, looking for water gram and moss. They always have a forlorn air. Many of. them still dwell on the islands of Banks’ mill pond, which covers thousands of acres, and butchers of Valdosta hunt them with horses and dogs.—New York Post.