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Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 60

Tho partiality which cows and calves have fox white lead and paint was demonstrated in an action brought by a Washdyko farmer to recover damages from a painter who had left a drum of white lead standing in the Oow-yard while he was carrying out painting operations on tho farm buildings, and to which tho cow gob access (says the Timaru Post), The drum was covered, but the cow removed the cover, and made a

meal of the contents, with tho result that later on tho farmer was minus his cow, and tho painter was cast in damages. It appears that pigs are also partial to paint, for on one occasion when the same painter was working on some farm buildings three pigs consumed some of tho paint and died. The paint had boon locked up in u shed, but the animals broke in and plentifully 1 helped themselves to the paint stored there.