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A V inter. George Feisner 7/27/22
Tape 24

GF school in his life, but he was an intelligent man and a many sided fellow for instance, if any of the neighbors or any of the town’s folk there had a cow that was sick and sent for my dad, it was my dad that received the call ofttimes if one of the children of the neighbors got sick they’d send for my dad, if grate broke in the stove, my dad, well he was a much sought after individual in a small way, so down, well down where we lived, we lived down where Kiscak’s lived, 132, I think, Main Street, and just below that there was a few houses we called Shanty Street and there was a gentlemen by the name of that had a cow that was sick, so he called for the cow doctor, my dad, and my dad went down and he said, “Now Mr. I think you need a veterinarian as this cow is seriously ill and there isn’t anything that I can do the only suggestion that I can offer is call veterinarian to get this cow well so he said, I would call Dr. Welch the veterinarian that lived in Drifton so when my dad went home one of the neighbors said, Mr. I don’t think he knows anything about a cow you’d better send to Evergreen Valley to Joe. Rinejx he was a farmer over about 3 miles, he’s a good cow doctor, I understand he was an immigrant, a Slovak nationality and Joe was a kind of boisterous fellow and he liked to project himself so Joe came up he drove up on a buckboard hitched to a mule, so Joe came in and he looked at the cow and he said, I know what’s wrong with this cow you feed her every night a bucket, the feed at that time they called a swill, it’s a mixture of chop and cabbage leaves and what not, beet tops and the like he said you know!s theirs nails in that chop and the cows at the nails and now they're protruding from the stomach they're sticking out of the stomach and we got to get those nails out of there, so he said, you got an old scrub rag so he got a block and tackle and put it under the cow's chin somehow held it upright put this rag in the cows throat and took a broomstick and tried to push it down the cow's throat his theory was that this rag would go into the stomach and the