The Cows in Lake sculpture represents a bygone era of Oatlands, Tasmania. During the late 1940s, it was a time when village residents would pay 10 shillings per year to the Council to enable their milking cows, usually a Jersey Cross, to roam the back streets of Oatlands. The cows would graze on the grassy verges during the day, this roaming extended to entering Lake Dulverton in search of the native grasses which grow there still today. Fifteen to twenty cows would enter the lake after grazing the verges, near disappearing until their hooves were barely touching the bottom of the lake, with only the top of their rump, shoulders and head visible as the cows would eat the native grasses. At the end of the day, the children whose parents owned cows roaming the village would find the cow, tether her up and return her home to be milked. The cows would be kept in the home yard overnight, the next morning they were milked before being let back out to the streets.
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