Breeding Ezzie - Mom's letter circa 1950

Excerpt from Mom's letter Cortes Island circa 1950

Jimmy took our cow, Ezzie, down to the Hanson’s last week to get her bred to a bull they have. She was very sophisticated about it.  She was artificially inseminated formerly so when he took her into the pen with the bull, she was in a terrific dither.  Each time the bull tried to mount her she would pull away and mount him so he couldn’t get the job done.  The bull, however, has a crush on Ezzie and showed up here this morning.  Stuck around until noon when Jimmy roped him and took him home. He took Ezzie back the next day and she cooperated in a very earthy and unsophisticated way.

After he brought her home, she was back to her usual self.  Jimmy came walking along to the yard gate with Ezzie fast on his heels hoping to get something to eat, he went through the gate and Ezzie stood close to it licking her chops.  Nancy came along behind her and wanted her to move so gave her a shove from behind.  Ezzie banged into the gate and looked quite annoyed. Later, Jimmy and Nancy went out to feed Ezzie, she walked deliberately to Nancy and bunted her gently on the front, hard enough that Nancy sat down.  A very unusual happening, in fact she never did it before.  Nancy walked up to her today when we were all out in the field and blew in her face but Ezzie was lying down and ignored it.