Ruth Foster
Ruth Foster is a learning-disorders specialist living in Lafayette, Indiana.
— From July 2000
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
Death Of A Milk Cow
Zelda was my present to Ken for his thirty-third birthday. She came cheap, having been culled from a small commercial dairy herd because she was stunted, in part from having calved too young. She was a luxurious, soft brown Jersey with large, moist eyes. Jerseys are known for their pacific dispositions (the females, anyway) and the richness of their milk, which has a higher fat content than that of any other breed. Zelda’s milk was so rich that, when we poured it fresh from the pail into old tuna-fish cans for the cats, it was yellow.
July 2000
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