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AUXILIARY MEETS
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The ladles auxiliary ef the American Legion met at ‘‘Maple Spring” the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Miller Monday night,, to ‘wrap Christmas packages for the soldiers in hospitals in the conn* try. Mrs. Frances Lyne is chairman of the auxiliary.*
TWO LARGE TURNIPS
Walter Rector of Sperryville recently brought from his garden two large turnips. One weighed
pounds and the other 1%.
Beef Cattle Die; * #
Too Many Acorns
Reports of beef cattle dying from eating too many acorns have; been received in the past two weeks from the vicinity of Charlottesville, according to Acie Edwards of the Virginia Forest Service.
Dr. Robert F. Estes, veterinarian of Orange, has investigated several deaths of cattle in the past few weeks which were caused by the cattle gorging themselves on acorns. Dr. Estes says that' the cattle will leave the pasture ’ and eat the acorns in preference to grass. The cattle lose weight rather rapidly when allowed tot graze in woodland and feed on acorns, and will often literally eat themselves to death. Dr. Estes-expressed the opinion that death is due either to overloading causing intestinal injuries, or to the harmful effects of the tannic acid impregnated in the acorns on the digestive system.
"Allowing cattle to graze the *farm woodldt is poor practice," the Forester said, "because neither the woodland, the cattle, nor the land owner benefits from it."
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