Subject: Farmer and his loyal cows
Long time ago in China, there lived a little farmer who was very
well-off in his town. He immigrated to a foreign land because he
wanted more for his life. In the new land he arrived at, there were
many cows who also have travelled a thousand mile from their far
away homeland where they were poor, there were drought,famine and
death where they came from. Some cows had died on the way, some
died trying and left offspring and some made it to this land. The
farmer being experienced in farming being to round up all the local
cow and promised to make life better for them and their offspring.
That one day the land will be filled with greens pasture and crops
sufficient to feed their offspring and next generation. They can
grow and be fatten in the land that together they will be build. So
the cows worked...
The farmer make them worked the land and it produced crops which
benefited the farmer. Season by seasons the farmer harvest from the
land that the cows have work very hard on. The cows suffered but
never lost hope in the promise that the farmer had made. The cows
believed that the land will be better for their offspring than
where they came from. The harvest was good and brought good wealth
to the farmer that he came rich and quickly brought fame to
himself. Sudden his neighbours begin to notice his success, while
some praise him for his good skills, some envied the farmer and his
cows with hatred. The farmer wanted establish his fame in the
neighbourhood so he wanted to built himself a monument to
commemorate his success, to show off to other and his family back
in China. So he sold all the harvest to have someone built him a
huge twin white domes besides the river to beautify the farm. But
he forgotten to keep the harvest for the next sowing season so he
took from the feeds for his cows...
The farmer was also very impatient man, he thought why not also
milk the cows so he can supply to The Diary Company and earn more
returns from diary products sold. So the farmer invested in
"Campbell Product Factory" milking machines because he thinking the
cows are working to slow and the land is not producing enough money
to built his monument and further more the farm need to grow
faster. So the farmers sold the idea to the cows. He milked the
cows and promise that the milk will be made into cheese, cakes and
diary produced that can be kept for the cows and their off-spring.
They can use it when the cows are old or can work no more on the
farm. But the farmer could not resist the delicious diary product
that was create using these milk and he began to eat off their
produce and sold some to earn more...
After sometime, the farmer was not happy and wanted more because
his neighbour farm just got bigger. He thought to himself, the
farmer next door has cows and brown horses. I like horses
especially white ones, they are fast, graceful, strong and smarter
than our own silly cows. So without any knowledge the farmer went
out to bought himself some white horses, entertainment horse which
other farmers find them useless to their farm and because work
horse are considered highly priced and valuable they kept it for
themselves. The farmer bought these white horses at a very high
price thinking that he was paying for quality horses. So he set
them the lead the cows to work the land hoping it will do a better
job by leading them before they are smarter. Hope he can keep his
eyes off thing and rest while the horse and the cow will work the
land, the farmer also put horse blinds on the white horses so they
can go straight and not be distracted, but it irritated the horses.
The white horses are lazy and not used to hard work but play. They
devised an idea so that they can deceived the farmer. They loosen
the rope to the plough so while the cows are pulling the plough,
they will not shoulder any burden and yet be leading the cows. And
with the horse blinds on they can sleep without the farmer
noticing...
Since the farmer has invested heavily on these white horses, the
farmer also fenced off the best portion of the farm so the white
horses can graze on the best pasture and grow fat, leaving the
dried grass and weeds to the cows. But the cows kept work even
harder thinking by doing so they can produce more crops and in the
end may benefit from more left-over. And the land began to grow and
produce more. Then farmer thought to himself, ever since I brought
these white horses the land had become more productive. So I should
reduce the numbers of cow to a plough and put more horses. As days
goes by, the cows became weaker and weaker because of the uneven
yoke. The horse was fatten but the cows were getting malnourished.
Now the farm have equal number of horses to cows. The farmer
harvest more and sold the extra harvest. With the money the farmer
employ engineers to built a 'Electric Reproduction Pump'. So when
the cows on it way to the field, passes through it, it will help
generate electricity to be used in the entire farm so the farmer
can save on electricity...
One day the farmer realised that the pasture could not support all
the farm's animals. He thought the cows are lazy and they eat a lot
of grass while the horses are doing the most work in the farm. He
told the cows, our farm is not producing enough to feed all. In
order to preserve for your offspring's, we may need to slaughter
some of you so the others may live on. So he slaughter some of the
cows and sold them for more money, with the money he bought farming
tools, leather saddles for the horses. He also brought golden horse
shoes for the white horses for their contribution for previous year
of harvest...
One day the farmer's helper Mr Mark 'Bold' Tanner suggested to
create more land, he said cows don't really need much space to live
in while the white horses need arches of field to play in. So they
began to built little shed just fitting to the cows. He also
enlarge the fences for the horses pan and reduces the portion for
the cow to graze. Ah Tan also enlarged his own little cottage with
the extra land...
One day, the meteorological station announced a prolong dry spell
is coming and all farmer should prepare for it. The farmer went to
the cows and said, I am afraid the quality of your milk is not good
enough. The fat content in your milk cannot produce sufficient
diary product you need for retire and your offspring. So the farmer
took more diary products out from the storage for himself to
prepare for the drought. Then he increase the milk machine rate and
milked the cows more often so that he can stock up more than what
he has taken from the storage...
Now, the dry spell was almost over. The drought did not spare some
of the farmers cows, the cows had to weather the harsh conditions
during this period. Because food was scares the farmer continue to
slaughter the cows for meat and sold them for money to built food
for himself. With the money the farmer also specially built a barn
and had hidden all the white horse inside. He air conditioned for
the horse because of the dirty and dust will hurt the white horses.
He also built a water storage tank and a cooling pool for the
horses...
The meteorological station predicted that the good raining season
is coming and advice that all farmer to take the opportunity to sow
as many seeds for so harvest will be good. The farmer needed more
money to buy quality seeds so he can sow them and prepare for huge
harvest. Prices of horses has gone up but the farmer needed more
white horses because he still consider them superior than his own
local cows. And with the farmer is also expecting good harvest, it
can do more good even if it cost him more to maintained them. He
thought with last years harvest record, I should have twice the
amount of white horse to a cow. The population of cow need to grow
for more milking. If need be I still can slaughter more cows and
sell their meat for money.
So the farmer went to the cows and said:
"We have all worked this hard for the land, like your forefathers,
for the sake of your offspring you must endure, you must work even
harder then them. With prices of seeds going up, I will have to
reduce your feeds so I can invest in quality seeds and more whites
horses to help you work this land.
The farm also needs more cows, we won't have to buy them because
you need to populate this land and the land will belong to your
offspring. But If need be we will also can borrow some white
horses. Maybe one day they will put horns on their heads and treat
them like cows and hope they can live with us."
After his speech to the cows, the farmer went for a vacant in the
city. He bought himself a nice little condo and plan to shift there
for his retirement......................
