THE DAILY TELEGRAM — APRIL 25, 1908
West Virginia Farmer Says He Has Made a Remarkable Discovery
GRAFTON. April 25.—A farmer living near Rowlesburg, on the Cheat river, whose veracity has never been challenged heretofore, is authority for the statement that the fish in the river have been milking his cows dry.
For the last week, he says, his cows returned from the pasture dry. He suspected a neighbor of milking them in the pasture and yesterday afternon hid himself behind some bushes on the bank of the river. About 3 o’clock when the sun was hottest the cows wandered into the stream to drink, standing with their udders just touching the water. The farmers says he was astonished to see that the large fish were hanging to the udders of almost every cow, and when he drove the animals out they had been milked dry.
The farmer is now perfecting plans to attach fish hooks to the udders of the cows and go into the fish business as a side line.
From— The Daily Telegram. (Clarksburg, W. Va.), 25 April 1908. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
