Word: heifers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agricultural experiment station of Pennsylvania State College, veterinarians trussed up Jessie, two-year-old heifer, and plugged her as though she were a watermelon. Dr. S. L. Bechtel of the station had noted that Heifer Jessie's milk contained Vitamin B, although none of the fodder she ate carried any. The question whether Jessie manufactured her own Vitamin B was very important...
...Bechtel could peek in Heifer Jessie's stomachs he might be able to decide whether she really created vitamins herself...
...operation was under local anesthetic. Heifer Jessie did not wince as the veterinarians scoured a patch of hide and cut a window into her first stomach. This was her rumen or paunch, where she was storing up her freshly swallowed fodder. Later, when these annoying men departed, she would regurgitate a large fistful and chew it at contented leisure, mixing it with saliva, so that it would slide down, a warm and pleasant blob of food, into her second stomach. This was her reticulum, her honeycomb stomach, which some day will be used for honeycomb tripe. (The rumen constitutes ordinary...
...horse-swapping, white-trash parents. The father settles as a tenant-helper on tobacco farms and Ellen's maidenhood is more stable. Her lanky, hungry little frame rounds out and her nature, though always puzzled, sensitive and secretive, is opened by friends, security and small domestic possessions-a heifer, a bed. She suffers through an inconclusive courtship by a yokel with a good heart but no "spunk"; welcomes marriage with a muscular, free-spoken nomad of the hill-farms, Jasper Kent, whose children she bears and beside whom, as their narrow fortunes rise and fall, she lives on, always...
...Martinsburg, W. Va., a heifer dropped down between two ricks of straw and subsisted seven weeks without water...