THE HEIFER, AND THE CREAM.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13645, 10 February 1913, Page 3

THE HEIFER, AND THE CREAM.

A heifer's strange fondness for cream as a beverage created a .little amusement in Ao-rangi the other day' (saj-s tho Feilding "Star"). It is th© custom for tlios-o dairymen who work ori the home, seperatpr system to place their cream in cans on a platform about the time the collecting motor van may t>e expected. A certain dairyman followed out this rule, as usual one day, leaving tfci© precious fliuid unattended.. Meanwhile a wandering'heifer, evidently suspecting something good in the cans, after iinx-iStigation. at once- set to regale herself. with v-tho contents of one. In her enjoyment the fluid disappeared, her "lowering" head became jammed i" the vessel, which discovery greatly alarmed the bovine, and with the can as a muzzle and head 'tilted she Sfljk'upa wild and weird dance, the effect being en-hanced by the spread of "the richest in cream" over'the head and back of the animal, difficulty being experienced in relieving her of hou tjnbecoming muzzle. Of those interested in the incident, perhaps tho; dairyman concerned was the least amused