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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
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Copyright 2023, drive alongside the row of cows ing a little distance would cow would most likely follow
Jerry Crownover
and count them, to make sure dissuade her from following. I me through the gate, and be in
calving season hadn’t started a was wrong. the wrong field at the conclu-
week too early. I shifted to a higher gear, sion of the race. At that point,
At first I just thought I was and was really making tracks, I started zigging and zagging,
one cow short, but then I hap- when I looked back and re- around and around the field,
pened to look in the rearview alized that the old cow had a with the tractor moving at a
mirror and discovered an old, higher gear also. There was speed that began to scare me.
black-baldy cow walking right hay flying left, right, up and The cow still had her mouth
behind the tractor, with her down, as I headed toward the attached to what was left of
mouth and tongue trying to open gate where I needed to the hay.
rip the remainder of the bale exit the field. At that moment, After twenty minutes, cov-
apart. I throttled up, think- it registered that the baldy continued on page 10
At this stage of winter, in
an effort to conserve what lit-
tle hay I have left, I have been
splitting a large round bale
between the two herds that I
feed in the morning before I
move on to the other farm.
One cold morning, last
week, I began to unroll a bale
at the pasture north of the
house. When I estimated that
I had provided that group of
cows with something close to
half of the bale, I raised the lift
on the tractor and proceeded to
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