Canada at War: THE DOMINION: City Cow

Farmers and farm editors chortled. A full-page Wartime Prices and Trade Board anti-inflation ad showed a cow being milked on the wrong side (the cow's right side is her right side).

Cracked the Norwood (Ontario) Register: "It . . . must be a Government-trained, left-handed Ottawa cow."

Snorted the Trenton (Ontario) Courier-Advocate: ". . . The Prices Board must have sent out one of those Government men who tell the farmers how to run their farms. . . . When instructed to come up to bossy at the stern end, he became confused, and all he could see was a pair...

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