WANDERING CATTLE

Southland Times, Issue 25763, 29 August 1945, Page 8

WANDERING CATTLE

Sir, —I would like to have a little of your space to mention the wandering stock in Centre Bush. I was rather amused on a recent Saturday to see two cows knock down quite a solid piece of fence, enter the garden of a resident and graze contentedly until a man came cycling along the road, took front gate delivery of the cows, and drove them off. To the stock owners this may seem a rather nourishing and cheap way to winter their cows, but on the other hand it must put them to quite a lot of trouble having to search the various roads and gardens both in the morning and often far into the night, to find their wandering cows. I would suggest that the owners put a bell on each one, and it would greatly simplify the task of locating them, as well as giving the gardener a fair chance of rushing to the fence to defend his vegetables. In fact, I think he would gladly pay part of the cost of the bell. It would be cheaper than having the fence and garden both destroyed. I hope this suggestion will meet with the approval of that rather large band of owners, whose butter fat producers graze in the “long paddock.” DAISY.