Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1871 — As True as Munchausen. [ARTICLE]

As True as Munchausen.

The following states the case rather strongly, but a correspondent of the New Sngl irid Homestead says every word of it is true. We think he must be mistaken, and that some one has imposed upon him, but as he seems to believe it and desires others to have the benefit of his discovery, we give it a place in our columns: “ A gentleman of our acquaintance had a Durham cow that gave birth, all at one time, to a two-year-old heifer that had no legs at all* Jf.r. Jones took a fivieeighths auger, and bored holes where the legs ought to l«e, and then drove in the legs of an old wash bench. He then applied Dr. Hutchins’ celebrated Indian hair tonic to the legs, which haired them over in one night, and br- mght out the hoofs most beautifully. The animal has since trotted her mile in 1:18, and took the first premium at the last agricultural horse trot at Hampden Park. During the month of January she suckled six caives and gave ten gallons of milk every day.”