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The Difference Mayor McCarthy of Washington, Ind.. reports that the publiccly owned electric plant in his little and thriving city made the best showing in its history last year. In the federal court in Chicago a receiver is asked for a three billion dollar holding company which controls and operates the same kind of utilities in many state*. The receivership is necessary to protect the thousands of people who have invested their money in this utility enterprise. The concern ranked as one of the marvels of private management. It was looked upon as the crowning example of the superiority of private ownership over public ownership. Politics, so the propaganda that was distributed from pulpit, press and public schools declared, would ruin any utility service. This was a business that demanded vision, the management of great financiers and engineers, the steady and guiding hand of individual enterprise. No citizen of Washington, Ind., needs the protective care of court to protect his dollars invested in his own utility. No citizen of Washington, Ind., watches the proceedings with concern as to the safety of his money. But the citizens of Washington, Ind., do find that their taxes have been lowered, that their rates are low, that their service does not seem to have been impaired by the devastating hand of politicians. They know that this publicly owned enterprise has kept at least two factories in business, giving employment to its people and maintaining prosperity. The receiver for the great monopoly should ask permission to send a few more paid lecturers and college professors to Washington, Ind., to convert the heathen who seems to be so satisfied with his own condition. At present that town is all too contented. A Petition to Inflate (From (he >'ew York Herald-Tribune) Undeterred (and possibly even stimulated)-by the American Legion's stand against the paper- bonus, leaders of the Veterans of Foreign Wars marched upon the Capitol, bearing 2,500,000 signatures to petitions demanding that the printing presses be started in the name of patriotism. "I will drive a six-mule team through the treasury,” a G. A. R. pension lobbyist once exclaimed. "God help the surplus!” Today there is no surplus; all that a six-mule team driven through the treasury could collect would be a deficit. The V. F. W„ therefore, are proposing to drive a super-tank through the whole program wherewith the administration has been struggling to meet the economic prostration of the country. Their intention is not simply to wreck the treasury but to wreck the only present hope offered by anybody for curing the conditions under which the ex-service men, in common with every one else, are suffering. Few things are more certain than that the only result of such a strategy, should it succeed, would be to wreck the V. F. W. Our neighbor, The WorldTclcgram, has undertaken what is perhaps the first serious attempt to examine objectively the illogical and intricate growth of veterans’ relief and the methods whereby it has developed. One of its most interesting findings is the way in which, throughout our history, pensions and war relief have followed a recognizable cycle, expanding luxuriantly (and inequitably to the veterans) through the good years, reaching a peak load some time after the treasury surpluses have begun to disappear, and ending finally with a necessary pruning and revision downward when the country no longer is able to bear the load. That is the point which, as the American Legion heads have seen, now has been reached. The V. F. on the other hand, refusing to accept the realities, are seeeking to project themselves across the treasury void with the printing press. The attempt can not succeed; rather it will tend to hasten the moment when the drastic revision and rationalization of the whole structure will have to be undertaken. For there are no two ways about it. We are in the midst of a severe depression, and we must go through with it one way or the other. We can not print paper money for the veterans and expect to apply sound principles in all other aspects of theproblem. Either we have to print paper money for everybody —let the budget go hang, the banking system go to pieces and our whole method of doing business go into liquidation—or else we have to get down to the old, uncomfortable job of tightening the machinery and sticking to principle. There is no middle course: the old truth remains that the way to inflate is to inflate and “the way to resumption is to resume.” Because of the great claim which the veterans who did the fighting have upon the nation, veterans’ legislation never has been critically regarded since the war. Now, however, the V. F. W. and their congressional friends have posed an issue which far transcends the question of the veterans themselves. It is a question of the basic organization of the economic life of the United States. That is an issue which will raise a determined, a nation-wide, and a deadly opposition. One Remedy for the Third Degree Remedies for the notorious third degree frequently are suggested. Many urge more thorough legal regulation of police brutality, but most states already have rather drastic legislation on the subject. The Wickersham commission found that some of the worst cities with respect to the third degree were located in states in which the practice was outlawed very thoroughly. Without relentless publicity, the police can sneak by almost any legal barriers. There is, perhaps, no ether safeguard against the third degree quite as effective as newspaper investigation of arrests and beatings. Unfortunately this is not done systematically at present. But what could be achieved is well revealed in the case of Walter L. Sanborn, editor of the North Penn Reporter of Lansdale, Pa. The success of Sanborn has been described in articles in The Nation and in Editor and Publisher. In May, 1931, somebody tried to blow up the home of a Negro in IWashington. Another Negro, one William G. Campbell, was arrested on suspicion without any evidence whatever. He was transported to the barracks of the Pennsylvania state police and put through the third degree. Participating were an assistant district attorney, a detective from the district attorney's office, and a police chief. Campbell was beaten and then hung from the rafter*. He became unconscious, was cut down, revived and beaten further. Campbell's physician revealed his condition to a judge. who referred the facts to the district attorney. The latter made a

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perfunctory investigation and whitewashed those accused of maltreatment. Then Editor Sanborn got hold of the facts. He published the story in full, with an editorial demanding prosecution of those involved. He was aided by another editor, E. S. Moser of the Collegeville Independent. The accused officials tried to bluff Sanborn and Moser. They rearrested Campbell, though they had gathered no new evidence, and held him in jail for three weeks. As soon as he was released, Campbell swore out warrants for his assailants. State officials took up the case. The attorney-general appointed a special deputy to prosecute the case for the state. The men who participated in the third degree proceedings were indicted and quickly brought to trial. They were convicted after a ten-day trial. Their appeal for anew trial was denied and sentence was imposed last month. The assistant district attorney was sentenced to from eighteen months to three years in the penitentiary. His detective was sentenced to from one to three years in the same Institution. The police chief was sent to the Montgomery county jail for six months. This shows what a courageous editor can do. He edited a little paper in a relatively small town. Against him was arrayed the political machine of a notoriously corrupt state. But he stuck to his guns and won. He really believed, to quote his own words, that “the idea of clubbing and choking accused persons into confessions is nauseating, repugnant to our judicial system, and to the American spirit of fair play.” Pace-Making Politics breeds pussyfooters. Evasiveness is one of the politician's strongest impulses. Weasel words are the language of the game. Much of A1 Smith’s popularity arises from the fact that he is the exception. By nature he is bold, direct, and simple in statement. For that quality, even those who vote against' him like him. Among the most vital public issues about which the political pussyfooter treads on tiptoe is war debts, in his Jefferson day speech, A1 Smith, characteristically, did not walk softly. He was there with a plan, and? all apart from a discussion of the plan itself, the forthrightness of its presentation is indeed refreshing. To pitch right into a major problem, a problem around which most politicians travel in wide and wary circles, takes nerve, the kind of nerve that the nation and the world badly need just now. Americans who have made a study of the subject long since realized that we never can hope to collect the war debts in full and that they hang like a lowering cloud between us and our yearnings for prosperity. Few politicians, however, have dared to admit it. Witness the frightened scurryings and side-steppings of senators at Washington this week when confronted with the A1 Smith proposal, “Something I would rather not discuss at this time.” “I just simply don’t want to talk about it.” “Please excuse me.” These are senatorial samples. Amid the misty generalities, the empty lambastings of the Hoover administration with which other Democratic aspirants try to conceal their lack of specific forward-looking programs, Smith’s directness hits a sorely needed note. It is in marked contrast to the cautious, expediencycontrolled utterances of Governor Roosevelt, who too often says only what he thinks will be safe and who acts only when public opinion forces action. Whatever happens, it seems to us that A1 Smith, suddenly and admirably, has quickened the pace of the whole pre-convention campaign. Now they’re making rubber out of sagebrush. If the price of rubber keeps on dropping, they’re going to start making sagebrush out of rubber. Maybe it was just o coincidence, but did you notice that steamship lines started giving excursion fares just before the big opening in Finland? From the way the government treats Russia, you might chink it was prejudiced against doing business with a country which pays its bills. A professional says the chin is 25 per cent of golf form. It’s nearer to 90 per cent for most golfers we know. General Butler says he always asks the Lord to help him say the right things in his campaign speeches. The voters probably ask the Lord to keep him quiet.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THIS column has been deluged with letters on the the subject of Jesus and Jehovah, as it was discussed here some days ago. The avalanche of Scriptural quotations and references has been overwhelming. Yet I am sorry to say that, so far. not one person has answered the question asked in the former article. It was this: “If the early Christian fathers had discarded the Old Testament and used as a guide for living only the words of Jesus Christ, would not the whole history of the world have been changed?” It seems that in their enthusiasm to discuss the value of the Hebrew prophets, everybody overlooked ihe main point. I am indeed sorry if the former essay caused any member of the Jewish church to feel that his religion had been attacked. I have the sincerest respect for the religious beliefs of every man, no matter what they may be. The criticism to the Christian churches, which, by their actions and their theological differences, repudiate the most vital lesson that Jesus tried to teach—the lesson of peace and progress through spiritual rather than armed strength. n n n IT is interesting, at any rate, to contemplate the inconsistent attitudes of both Jew’s and Christians in this respect. Here we have the followers of the Prince of Peace who from the time of the crucifixion have bathed the earth in blood. The very city in which their Messiah taught has witnessed the ghastliest butchery in His name. On the other hand, we have the Jews, who do not profess to believe in the divinity of Christ. Yet since His advent upon their earth they have followed in a marked fashion His example of nonresistance to violence. They seldom have waged wars or engaged in battles save as they have been conscripted to fight for other races and religions. They have been the victims of the most cruel persecutions. Pogroms have destroyed them and their homes. They fled from one country to another to find safety. And neither as a race nor a religious body have they put up armed resistance. The Jews today are the truest pacifists on earth. I leave it to any honest reader whether they have not flourished and prospered by thuknonresist&nce?

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M: E. Tracy Says:

If Smith Intended to Go After the Nomination He Never Should Have Permitted Roosevelt to Take the Lead. YORK, April 15—It was a great speech that Alfred E. Smith made at the Jefferson day dinner. People will remember it long after the nominations have been made and the present campaign is over. Some parts of it may be adopted by this government, i regardless of which party is In control. But when you have said that, you have said it all. Smith did not throw a bombshell into the Democratic camp, or even the Roosevelt boom. What he threw was a dud. He made the mistake of mixing politics with statesmanship. If it was his purpose to offer the country a constructive program, he should have avoided all utterances which might be interpreted as referring to factional strife within the Democratic party. On the other hand, if he were out to start a fight on Roosevelt, he should have stuck to the point. n tt tt Too Much Watting SMITH appears to have been one of the thousands who imagined that Governor Roosevelt was bound to lose because he entered the race so early. Where that idea came from is a mystery, but it appealed to the lazy-minded and they passed it on as being clever. Eventually, it took hold of some ordinarily wide awake politicians. From that point, the thing became contagious. Without conscious, or concerted action, the anti-Roosevelt forces went in for a sitting-down campaign. The New York Governor would wear himself out, they told each other. If he did, the favorite son movement could be depended on to beat him. Having heard from recent primaries, they should know better by now. tt tt A Packed Jury ALFRED E. SMITH had a perfectly good case, but he allowed Franklin D. Roosevelt to pack the jury. Any lawyer can tell you what that means. It is hard to believe that Smith has been acting on his own hunch. The tactics he has pursued are too foxy. They are much more in keeping with the Raskob-Shouse idea of strategy. No matter who was responsible, Smith has played a poor hand. If he intended to go after the nomination, or retain leadership of the Democratic party, he never should have permitted Governor Roosevelt to take the lead. All that may be water gone by the mill, but water gone by shows the kind which is most likely to come. Smith has one delegate; Governor Roosevelt about two hundred. n tt tt Tammany Worried AS might be expected, Tammany is worried by the prospect of a Smith fight on Roosevelt, not because of divided love, but because Tammany is not quite sure which it would rather embarrass. Outside of Tammay, the prospect of a Smith-Roosevelt split is not taken seriously, except as it may serve to stiffen the Roosevelt following. The Roosevelt following needs no such stimulant. It has been at work, and hard at work, for the last six months. That, more than anything else, explains its success. tt tt tt Organization Wins ■ OTHER things being equal, organized effort is the secret of political triumph. Once in a blue moon a man like Bryan comes along and stampedes a convention, but for every time such a thing as that happens you can find ten instances in which the slate was made and the nomination sewed up before the convention assembled. Those opposed to Roosevelt should stop kidding themselves. He has a working organization, and has had for a long timl No other candidate, or group of candidates, can match him in this all-important respect.

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NEUVE EGLISE FALLS April 15

ON April 15, 1918, German storm troops took Neuve Eglise after fighting there for more than sev-enty-two hours. British machine gunners had held on for nearly twenty-four hours after the main body of their forces had been withdrawn to another position prepared in the rear. German assaults on British positions near Merville, however, failed. Seven separate attempts were made during the day to storm the trenches held by the hard-pressed English soldiers. Meanwhile, definite announcement from Paris w’as made of the appointment of General Ferdinand Foch as commander-in-chief of all the allied forces. This supplemented the earlier announcement, made during the great German drive in Picardy. Helsingfors, capital of Finland, was occupied by German troops. Their advance into the city was unopposed. Who is the president of American Federation of Labor? William Green. How many makes of automobiles are manufactured in the United States? About thirty-eight. Has Germany a military air force? NO. Do citizens of the United States who win money on foreign sweepstakes have to pay income tax on their winnings? Yes. Who received the Nobel prise for chemistry in 1931? Dr. Freidrich C. R. Bergius and Dr. Carl Bosch, two Gormans.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Food Sensitivity May Cause Asthma

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hyx-la, the Health Magazine. INVESTIGATIONS made in the last twenty years show that a vast number of people are sensitive to various substances and that they respond to contact with these substances by asthma, hay fever, eczema, eruptions, headaches and various minor disturbances. The substances to which they are hypersensitive are articles of food, the pollens of plants and many other substances in the ordinary environment. In children the symptoms of asthma are associated with so many symptoms related to the throat that the spasm, which is the typical manifestation of asthma, may be obscured. Consequently the parents and sometimes the physician, according to Dr. George W. Bray, may label the condition recurrent bronchitis until later either the frequency of the attacks and repeated breaking

IT SEEMS TO ME

THE bonus makes strange bedfellows. I am, for instance, a trifle startled to find that the Daily Worker, official organ of the Communist party, U. S. A., has joined hands with the Veterans of Foreign Wars in advocating adjusted compensation in immediate cash payments. In fact, the gentlemen of the left purpose to hold a parade to boost the gentlemen of the right. “The parade,” I read, “will be led by the bugle corps of the Workers’ ExServicemen’s League.” And later in the same article the veterans are urged “ by militant mass action to force the Wall Street government to pay the bonus at once.” Now, I think it would be a reasonable thing and an excellent thing if the men who fought in the war formed a reservoir of radical thought in American politics and social life. No man is equipped better to preach the cause of peace than the one who has with his own eyes seen war for what it is. And the youngster snatched off a middle western farm because an Austrian archduke was assassinated on the Balkan border should have received an object lesson in the folly of the theory that America well can afford to let the rest of the world go to perdition. tt tt tt It Has Not Happened ALL these things ought to be so, but as yet they are not. The Communist organ tries to save its own face in the matter of its Fascist alliance by pretending that the bonus drive will constitute a repudiation of the American Legion. It is true that the last legion convention granted President Hoover a grudging acceptance of his antibonus plea, but it is nonsense to pretend that legionnaires are hostile or even neutral in the present controversy for cash. Representative Patman, who is leading the fight for the veterans, has announced that 330 of 340 legion posts in Texas have petitioned for the bonus. Radicalism (and liberalism, for that matter) among the organized ex-soldiers of America never has gone beyond a desire for liberal allowances for ex-servicemen, nomatter what their circumstances. In every other phase of American politics the legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars have been not only conservative, but distinctly standpat. Munition mongers and trouble makers always have been able to count on kindly words from these

Daily Thought

And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears Into pruning hooks. —Micah 4:3. Peace is the happy natural state of man; war his corruption, his disgrace,—Thomson,

out or the detection of the typical asthmatic wheeze leads to the correct diagnosis. The shortness of breath that is so typical of asthma is, of course, the most important symptom. Cough, chest colds, head colds, running from the eyes and others symptoms are secondary. It has been found in general that children of a certain constitutional type are more likely to be asthmatic than others. The type most commonly affected is the blue-eyed, fairhaired boy who in most cases has had facial eczema during infancy and whose asthmatic attacks begin in the fourth or fifth year. Three boys are affected to every girl concerned with infantile eczema. Dr. Bray says that hypersensitivity to various foods emphasizes itself in many children, but particularly in those whose parents also have symptoms of sensitivity. Such children are notoriously dis-

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bodies in regard to “preparedness” and “patriotism.” In scores of cities and towns, legion posts have fought for dogmatized textbooks and against the intelligent professor or instructor who seeks to introduce unbiased courses in history and economics. It was the legion which precipitated the bloody I. W. W. fracas in Centralia. And it was and is the legion which undertakes to break up the meetings of all and every unorthodox political segment. tt tt tt A Soldier Speaks His Mind T HAVE before me a letter signed simply "Ex-Serviceman,” in which the writer says: “I speak not only for myself, but for hundreds of others. We love our country and we revere its institutions, but if I don’t get that bonus I am going to turn Communist.” Very possibly this veteran speaks only for himself and not for the others whom he mentions, but it is interesting to see that profound and deep economic convictions can be swayed so mightily by cash considerations. Never to the best of my knowledge and belief has the legion come out for unemployment insurance for workers in general. That would be a dole. That would be un-American and even bolshevik. Surely, the Veterans of Foreign Wars would be ever so stuffy about any such proposition. The organization wants a dole for doughboys and not for any others. It is the last extremity of the isolationist point of view. So long as the nests of the veterans can be feathered, what matter how the wind howls outside!

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ficult to feed or to wean, many foods disagree with them, and they develop a distaste for foods which the parents can not understand. The mother notices particularly that the child has blistering of the lips and mouth when it eats eggs or fish, and that the eating of food is associated with severe diarrhea, vomiting, or abdominal pain. Os course, the most important step in controlling such a condition is the determination of the substance responsible. The diet should be chosen to avoid the specific cause of reaction and the child should be encouraged to eat a good breakfast, to have a hot midday meal, and a light, early supper. No food or drink should be given to the child after getting into bed. It sometimes is possible to desensitize allergic or hypersensitive children by various special medical technics. The parent owes it to the child to give it every possible opportunity during childhood to get rid of its sensitivity.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented withoat regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

But I am less minded to chide the veterans for their association with the Communists’ Ex-Service-men’s league than I am to question gently the consistency of the Communists in this deal. Russia officially has disowned Christian theology and Christian ethics, but the American left-wingers are certainly inclined to turn the other cheek in the matter of the bonus. The boys who have batted them off the soapboxes now are to get the glad hand of fellowship, a bugle corps and an afternoon at the mint. tt a tt Put Congress in Place get our dough out of ’ " the government,” writes T. L. P., of Texas, “for the very simple reason that all congressmen—perhaps not all but most—are born helpless, cowards and need their jobs, and, further, know we’ll vote them out district by district unless they pay off as agreed . . . Just hand us cash; nor de we care what press they run it off on.” Well, if the boys are going to take over the matter of making the laws and making the money they will also have to assume the responsibility of running the government. It will be anew social order, and we need anew social order. It will be the Dictatorship of the Doughboy. I am not for it. I would rebel against it utterly. But there would be just one silver lining for me under the cloud of this dispensation. I would much enjoy watching how the Communists will like it when they get it. (Copyright. 1932. by The Tline*)

APRIL 15, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Lincoln Ellsworth's Book Is a Stirring, Vivid Tale of Polar Exploration. EVERY boy dreams of adventure —of being a surveyor lor anew railroad, of being an engineer, pioneering through a wilderness, of hunting deer with Indians for guides, and of flying to the north pole. Most boys forget their dreams as they grow older. They are only wistful memories, stirred to awakI ening when the exploits of an Amundsen or a Wilkins are rej counted. Asa boy. Lincoln Ellsworth I dreamed the dreams of most boys. ; But as he grew older, he did not 1 forget them. He waa not a robust boy. Many of his schoolmates were sturdier and stronger. But he determined to develop a physique equal to the tasks he dreamed of. And he succeeded. The fact that young Lincoln's father was a millionaire can not be cited as the reason that he succeed- ; ed. Millions can be a handicap : as well as a help when an unusual career is planned. In addition, it must be noted, that his father, a great captain of industry, was opposed to many of his adventures. On two occasions, he refused to give Lincoln permission to go into the Far North. It was only after Lincoln became associated with the great Amundsen that he finally withdrew his objections. tt tt His Story Lincoln ellsworth has been one of the most retiring of explorers. His millions have made it unnecessary for him to take to the lecture platform to finance expeditions. Instead, he has been able to finance the expeditions of his fel-low-explorers. But at last he has broken his silence with the publication of an autobiography. The book, titled "Search,” has been published by Brewer, Warren & Putnam at $4. However, Ellsworth has adhered strictly to an account of his adventures and so the publishers have furnished an introduction by Harold IT. Clark which tells about Ellsj worth’s background and early years. There is also an appendix containing some of the honors which have been given Ellsworth and some of the things Amundsen had to say about him. Clark, an attorney, is a trustee and secretary of the Cleveland museum of natural history. He has been a friend and legal adviser of the Ellsworth family for many years. Discussing the point of view of James W. Ellsworth, the explorer’s ! father, Clark writes, “Even at the | last, he believed that Lincoln was giving up too much, sacrificing too much of the ease of life which the father had earned for him, by striking out into uncharted, mysterious and threatening regions. Yet Mr. Ellsworth might have reckoned that his own blood flowed through his son's veins. For the father himself was a pioneer, courageous and intrepid, even if among less dangerous elements.” * * u Exciting Book “C'EARCH” is an excellent book v3 for two reasons. First of all, it is an exciting and thrilling story of adventure. It will appeal to young ard old alike as a story of heroic actions. Its second appeal is that of a historical document. No student of polar exploration can count hi* knowledge of the field complete until he has read “Search.” Here, for example, is the firsthand account of that tremendoua event when Amundsen and Ellsworth, attempting to reach the north pole by airplane, were forced down upon the polar ice, 136 miles from the pole. It was on May 21, 1925, at 5:15 p. m. that Amundsen and Ellsworth took off from Kings bay, Spitzbergen. They had calculated that the flight to the pole would take twenty hours and they carried rations for thirty hours. The planes, however, were forced down, and it was not until June 15 that the two leaders and their associates were able to get back into the air. They all returned in one plane, the other having been damaged in landing. The long struggle to get that plane into the air is told in detail by Ellsworth. It is one of the epics J of polar adventure. “Search’’ also, of course, gives Ellsworth’s account of the famous flight of the Norge. The Norge, a dirigible, took off from Spitzbergen. j on May 11, 1926. It made the journey to the north pole and then continued on to Teller. Alaska, a total distance of 3.391 miles, making the flight in seventytwo hours. In the closing chapters of th* book, Ellsworth tells of his adventures aboard the Graf Zeppelin.

Questions and Answers

How may the silver on the back of a mirror be removed? To remove silvering from an old mirror that was properly done originally is somewhat difficult and requires practice and a good deal of patience. When backed by flat ! black or red paint, any paint remover of merit will take that coat ! off; but for the silvering a solution of one part by weight of nitric acid and six parts sulphuric acid in ten parts by weight of water may be required to dissolve the silver, and the operator must protect his hands with rubber gloves and be very careful to get none of the so- ; lution on his clothes. A swab of cotton on a stick is used to apply the solution, and as soon as the silvering is lifted the glass Is rinsed j with clear water and then cleaned i with a cloth dampened with alcohol and allowed to dry. WTiy is it necessary to reinvestigate the investigations made by investigators who are employed by the township trustees for poor relief work? ! This is not done. What Is the average weight of cows? It depends upon whether they are dairy cows, beef cows or dual ! purpose cows. Cows weigh from 900 i to 1,600 pounds.