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Grady the Cow (c. 1943 - July 24, 1961) became famous for being the cow stuck inside a storage silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma in 1949.〔Associated Press. ("Grady Dies; Famous As Cow in Silo," ) ''Reading Eagle'' (Reading, Pennsylvania), July 25, 1961. Accessed April 30, 2015.〕 == The Silo Incident == On February 22, 1949, Bill and Alyene Mach's six-year-old Hereford cow, Grady, gave birth to a stillborn calf in a small shed next to a silo.〔Lee, Robert E. "Yukon Having a Ball Retelling Cow's Silo Saga," ''The Oklahoman'', February 19, 1990, p.31.〕〔Lee, Robert E. "Cow Due for a Big Day in Yukon," ''The Oklahoman'', January 24, 1990, p.43.〕〔Sutter. Ellie. ("Silo Landmark Torn Down Grady the Cow Only a Memory," ) ''NewsOK'' (website of ''The Oklahoman''), January 6, 1997. Accessed April 30, 2015.〕 Since she was having trouble with the birth, Mach called a veterinarian, D.L. Crump, to help. Dr. Crump tied Grady to a post so she would hold still. When he was finished taking care of her, she was untied. She then whirled around and started chasing Bill, who jumped on a pile of cottonseed sacks to escape. Grady dove for the only light in the shed, which was from the small opening to the silo; the opening was only 17 inches wide and 25 and a half inches high.〔 Mach and Dr. Crump looked toward the silo opening and saw a few red hairs clinging to the edge of the heavy steel silo door. Grady was in the silo. The opening could not be made wider because it was encased in steel. Mach did not want to tear down the silo as it was too valuable, nor did he want to slaughter Grady, who was worth over $1,000.〔 Bill Mach asked for help through his local newspaper, and the response was overwhelming. Mach and his brother received 5,400 letters and 700 telegrams from people from 45 states and Canada and Germany.〔〔"Remember her 1949 Jump? Grady of Silo Fame Dead," ''The Oklahoman'', July 25, 1961, p.1-2.〕 Phone calls, telegrams and letters all flowed in; curious people started showing up at the Mach farm in cars〔Sutter, Ellie. "Cow's Plight Remembered by Couple," ''The Oklahoman'', June 21, 1993, p. 41.〕 and even planes. Grady was featured in ''Life'', ''TIME'' and newspapers all over the country. People offered a variety of solutions for getting Grady out of the silo. The suggestions included rigging a pole to swing her out the top of the silo, tunneling under the silo,〔 and bringing an attractive bull to the opening to lure her out. An Air Force officer said he knew of a helicopter that would lift but it was in San Marcos, Texas. Three days after Grady's leap, Bill Mach got a call from Ralph Partridge, the farming editor of ''The Denver Post'', who told Mach he was coming to Yukon to get Grady out of the silo. Partridge supervised while a ramp was built from the floor of the silo to the opening.〔Guffey, Chan. "Bossy Slips Out," ''The Oklahoman'', February 27, 1949, p.1-2.〕 He coated the ramp and the opening with axle grease.〔 Partridge then smeared Grady with 10 pounds of axle grease, and she was outfitted with two heavy halters.〔 Dr. Crumb recommended that Grady be milked before they attempted to pull her out, so J.O. Dickey Jr., Yukon vocational agriculture teacher, went in the silo and milked her.〔 After Grady had been brought up to the opening, Dr. Crumb gave her tranquilizers to make her relax.〔〔"Hypo, Grease Get Grady out of Her Cell," ''The Oklahoman'', February 27, 1949, p.17〕 While men outside the silo pulled on ropes attached to her halters, Partridge and J.O. Dicky Jr., a Yukon vocational agriculture teacher, pushed.〔〔 Grady slid through the opening, and veterinarians stated that she had not been injured during the rescue.〔"Hypo Sets the Stage, Elbow and Cup Grease Ease Grady out of Silo Prison," ''The Oklahoman'', February 27, 1949, p.63.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grady the Cow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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