The Farm.
A QUESTION OF INTEREST. The possibility and propriety of working cows upon the farm may well be a question of interest to the owners of small farms who are compelled to support a pair of horses, useless for any purpose whatever except work, wliile the cows feed and ruminate in inglorious, if not, so far as this matter is concerned, in useless ease. A farmer who has broken a pair of heifers to the yoke, finds them gentle, docile, and quick to learn, of sufficient strength, and while working, to yield as much milk as other heifers. Certainly this would seem reasonable when we think of the hard work females of a race which should be higher in our estimation as things are considered, but who frequently have reason to complain of harder treatment than many heifers experience, and who, in spite of hard j work, poor fare, and abundant worry, j sustain their offspring and rear them as well, if not better, than their more favoured sisters who enjoy every possible" comfort and advantage.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1243, 25 September 1875, Page 18
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177The Farm. Otago Witness, Issue 1243, 25 September 1875, Page 18
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