My husband grew up on a farm...he says if you start carrying a calf the day it is born and continue everyday then you can carry the cow! Can't prove it by me! Bebe

Bebe, >>My husband grew up on a farm...he says if you start carrying a calf the day it is born and continue everyday then you can carry the cow! Can't prove it by me! Bebe << My ggrandpa, Joseph Heral (Hearl) was an exceptionally strong man. One day he walked over to the river bottom to check on his cattle and found a steer which had eaten "stagger weed", a plant poisonous to cattle, and the steer which weighed about 400 to 500 pounds, could not walk.. he got it on his back and shoulders and carried it up a long steep hill to a barn where he planned to treat it for the poison.. When he reached the barn he dumped the steer off his back and when it hit the ground two of its legs broke and he had to kill it anyway.. Sometime later he was at a farm down the road from his place and two men trying to pick a 300 pound hog up an put it over a fence and they were unable to do it.. Joe told them he could throw that hog over the fence by himself! He had already gotten on his horse to go home but he got off and climbed into the hog pen, picked the hog up, threw it over the fence and fell backward and died of a brain hemmorage.. He was 56 years old. Lesson: Don't go around picking up cows and hogs because either they or you will be killed! True Stories....... G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, Va.