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Sirs: Here are the facts about "Pieter Poth's Calves." Alta Clover and many of her stable mates gave birth to calves during the course of one week. She produced enough milk to nurse six calves and I got the impression when I saw her, that she is not what is known as an "easy milker" to milk by hand. Poth let six calves worry about that rather than his daughters, who milk the cows. A salesman of dairy farm equipment, ignorant of bovine prolificacy, when he saw Alta and six calves in one pen, inquired if she were...
Dairyman Poth's original story of his cow Alta Clover's bearing six calves at once was a good one and he is still sticking to it, but he has no witnesses to the multiple birth...
...Poth's farm is the largest around Clarksburg, completely equipped, immaculately clean throughout. His 105 cows supply a large part of the milk for Clarksburg's 30,000 people. Last week it was no novelty to Dairyman Poth to see that one of his Holsteins, named Alta Clover, was about to calve. Patting her sleek sides, he guessed that she might even have twins. He penned her up for the night...
Next morning when Dairyman Poth went into his barn, he found that during the night Alta Clover, without assistance, had given birth to sextuplets: five heifers and one bull-four spotted black and white and two nearly all white, all six fully developed, healthy. Stunned, Dairyman Poth put them with a Guernsey and another Holstein to help the mother nurse her herd...
...Strip-tease!" exploded Clover Fork's Secretary-Treasurer A. F. Whitfield. "We deny that. The company has been observing the Wagner Labor Relations Act to the letter...