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Shirley Whittington
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Last week I met a happy
farmer. As we left his barn
full of the most glamorous
limpid -eyed Jersey cows you
ever saw, he told me that he
loved his job and that he
wouldn't trade it for any
other
No wonder. The man is sit-
ting on a gold pine. Not only
do those beauti 1 cows pro-
vide him with the richest,
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paradise, they have a new
potential to make big bucks
in the fast -paced world of ad-
vertising.
I found out about this when
I read about a Kleinburg
farmer who has turned his
cows into walking billboards.
For $500 you can rent a side
of beef, and put a message on
it. Already this farmer has
sold space to a local restau-
rant, a frozen food company,
a jersey cow breeder and a
sign company.
Resourceful farmers have
always been able to come up
with ways to bring in extra
revenue to offset the rising
costs of feed and bag balm.
They used to rent the sides of
their farns for Bull Durham
' Tobacco and Vogue Cigar-
ette Papers and Cut Plug
Chewing Tobacco. Then they
sold the old barn boards to
suburbanites who used them
to panel their family rooms.
The idea of renting out
Flossie's hide makes a lot of
sense. Cattle should be put to
some use besides looking
darling w the stalls and pro-'
ducing . high test milk and
valuable calves and good
fertilizer and eventualy nice
. wallets and handbags.
Cows are ideally suited to
moo-ve merchandise. Chick-
ens are .too small and fluffy
to hold any sort of message,
and who would believe ahy-
thing told to them by a
chicken anyway? Pigs?
You'd just get them all
painted up with a nice Calvin
Klein ad, and they'd roll in
the mud. Horses move
around too much catG are
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too, unpredictable. B.tlt. cows
are perfect because they,
have this habit of just sort of
standing there and staring
you down while they chew
their cud.
Cows are also just about
the rightt height for eye -level
reading. Bovine billboards
would discourage graffiti
artists. 1 can't imagine any-
one Sneaking up on a cow and
painting a moustache on an
advertised face, or blacking
out the teeth.
At milking time, when the
cows line up for the barn, you
could (if you got the lined up
in the right order) run a
series of advertising mes-
sages -- whole paragraphs of
copy about condominiums,
shampoos or new cars. Eat
your heart out, Burma -
Shave...,
Some cows are bred for
milk, and some for beef . Now
the cattle breeders have a
whole new spectrum to con-
sider. The media super -cow
will have nice smooth sides,
battery-operated spotlights
for night vision and a set of
cowbells that can be pro-
grammed with the advertis-
er's jungle. Imagine what a
good media cow could do
with ring around the collar!
There's a fortune to be
made here. People trust
cows. Except for that one
silly bovine that jumped over•
the moon, they are generally,
perceived as reliable sensi-
ble creatures.
Cows could be the bill-
boards of the future.
Unless they're male. Then
they'll be bullboards.
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Q. What can you tell me
about my Dutch boy fisher-
man doll? It is 11 inches tall
and has this mark (sketch
attached) .
A. Your doll was made by
J. D. Kestner in Waltershau-
sen, Germany, about 1918.
The current market price is
in the $375 to $425 range.
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Q. What can you tell me
about my clock? It was made
for the Pan-American Ex-
position of 1901 according to
the picture on the front.
A. Items associated with
expositions are very much in
demand by collectors.
Your clock should sell for
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Please explain.
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It is still being made today.
Majolica that dates back to
. the 15th and 16th centuries is
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By Barbara Hartung
Q. My husband and I will
be retiring soon and moving.
into new quarters with a
large living -dining room but
no family room.
We want our living room to
be versatile yet sophisti-
cated without formality. We
will probably give it hard
wear because it will be for
entertaining, overnight
guests, reading and loung-
ing.
1 have always lived with
traditional mahogany fur-
nishings but I want some-
thing new and much more
relaxed. Also'1 want a very
neutral color scheme in the
room so 1 can introduce dif-
ferent accent colors or keep
it very subdued. What sug-
gestions do you have? —
M.V.
Shephard selected an L-
shaped seating unit where
one sec tion features an arm-
less queen -size sleeper unit
helping your living room to
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room when needed.
Standard ottomans with-
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The leather obviously is
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and the touch. The single col-
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Q. I am trying to update
my kitchen -dinette area
without making major ex-
penditures.
1. have beige mottled vinyl
in the area and Tight beige
ceramic tile counters with
light oak cabinets. I have an
oak dining'table and ladder -
back chairs in the dining
area. The walls are off-white
now and the overall effect is
rather lifeless.
Please suggest some way
to add personality. I could
use new curtains at windows
over the' sink and near the
table. — T.T.
A. rind a fabric shop that
specializes in selling mill
ends of designer fabric at a
fraction of their original
cost.
Select a pretty polished
A. Designer Charles Shep-cotton, for example, thathas
colors you like (as well as a
hard has created a charming touch of beige). Cover one
and sophisticated living wall of your dinette area
room starting with toffee with this fabric, applying the
toned plush carpeting, a fabric as if it- were wall-
ige subtly er
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chairs, and install
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of green plants for softness. can insert panels of the fa -
This might serve as a good bric. This will give you pat -
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Most fabric shops today
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