Cow Sense
While Ashburton felt the effects of a lodeg frost on Thursday night—the heaviest for nearly two years —a cow managed to spend the night getting warm before getting burnt The cow, one of two owned by Mr J. Young, of Grahams Road, Tinwald, decided to settle for the evening on the ashes of a gorse fire while her partner camped in less warm parts of the paddock. The cover the cow was wearing finally caught alight and she suffered skin burns on her neck and down her left leg, and also scorches all over her body. Mr Young had burnt gorse on Thursday and finishing by 4 p.m., he put his two cows into the paddock.
He said yesterday: “I suppose you could say she was looking for an electric blanket”-
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32352, 18 July 1970, Page 1
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133Cow Sense Press, Volume CX, Issue 32352, 18 July 1970, Page 1
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