| Issue #1, Fall 1989 | Cover - "Don't udder a word of this to anyone!", 24 pages (although numbered incorrectly to only 22). Farm facts, trivia COWntest, modern-day cattle rustling, twilight dairy meeting, dairy princess. |
| Issue #2, Winter 1990 | Cover - "Moolah", 24 pages. Trivia COWntest, bovine leukemia, milkfat, experimental grazing with sheep, profile of a cattle judge, bovine bingo. |
| Issue #3, Spring 1990 | Cover - "Barn Again!", 24 pages. Cow clones, bovines causing health and environmental hazards, "wanted" poster of Bossie, Cowtree Collector. |
| Issue #4, Summer 1990 | Cover - "AmeriCOW Gothic", 32 pages. Dairy tour, cow art, bag balm, COWllector Judy Garvin, sacred cows, raising a family cow, the Windward Foundation. |
| Issue #5, Fall 1990 | Cover - "1991 COWlendar", 36 pages. Buying a COWdillac, a reader's first milking experience, commentary on sacred cow article, Bovimania booming, COW merchandise, animal rights and welfare, cow comfort, the MOOsletter's national attention, short story by Marcie Leitzke. |
| Issue #6, Winter 1991 | Cover - "Skiing Cow", 32 pages. Farm vacations, reader profiles, governmental cows, short story by Marcie Leitzke, COWntest, Mansfield Dairy's skiing cow, COWkie jars, Pam Pickens' childhood memories, cow manure used in power plants, AtomiCOW comic books. |
| Issue #7, Spring 1991 | Cover - "The AmeriCOW Flag", 32 pages. Stories by L. Leitzke and K. Kampke, COWntest winners, W. McDonald's poetry, Butter and Egg Days, Dairy Hollow House Cookbook, ag exchange programs, cow art exhibit "The Bovine Comedy", socially-responsible ice cream. |
| Issue #8, Summer 1991 | Cover - "My MOO Heaven", 24 pages. COWllectors Nora Hansen and Glennis Greeley, MOOving poetry and short story, dairy tour, MOOsworthy items, cattle facts, COWrrespondence. |
| Issue #9, Fall 1991 | Cover - "The Hills Are Alive with the Sounds of MOOsic", 40 pages. Cows from "down under", L. Stark observes "what cows do at night," Dave Barry's "Nothing but the MOOs," ventriloquist & cow dummy, COWllector Patty Coe, ag exchange program, COWkie jars. |
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Issue #10, Winter 1992 SOLD OUT | Cover - "Cow Do I Love Thee? Let Me COWnt the Wheys", 24 pages. Calves in the cold, cow Christmas gifts, subscriber H. Meisel (Italy), History of Elsie the Borden Cow, Mabel McGinnis's Life with George, history and collecting of milk bottles, Dave Barry's article about exploding cows. |
| Issue #11, Spring 1992 | Cover - "When Spring comes, Clover's thoughts always turn to the bull pen", 40 pages. Readers' questions and answers on COWllectibles, bull beauty pageant, COWllectors J. Slootweg, M. Grebin, and M. Everhart, P. McCarter's cow room, cow artist Woody Jackson. |
| Issue #12, Summer 1992 | Cover - "The ACOWdemy Awards - Favorite MOOvies of Bovimaniacs", 24 pages. COWntest, "Birthing on Grass" by L. Stark, P. Pickens at a cow auction, COWmedy, excerpt from M. McGinnis's Life with George, Holstein COWkie recipe, "The Purple Cow." |
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Issue #13, Fall 1992: SOLD OUT | Cover - "Mrs. MOO - the ultimate boviholic," 44 pages. Cow sculptor M. George, COWllector P. White, COWver girl: Mrs. MOO, poetry by B. Black and R. W. Frazier, A. Whipple's Christmas tree, stories by L. Stark, M. Everhart, and G. Will, Dr. LaGear's livestock manual. |
| Issue #14, Winter 1993 | Cover - "Super Bull Sunday," 20 pages. COWntest prize winners. Formation of C.O.W. (Cow Observers Worldwide), L. Stark's book Once Upon a Farm, new Elsie modernized for the 90's, bovine word play, world's first milk bottle, "Cows aren't my thing" by H. Vrbjar, cow Christmas gifts. |
| Issue #15, Spring 1993 | Cover - "Thelma", cartoon by Stephanie Simone, 36 pages. Poetry by A. Drennen, stories by F. Beeman & L. Stark, new staff members, COWS Candy, COWmputer bovines, Holy Cow! Casino, MOOsworthy items, COWmedy, COWrrespondence. |
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Issue #16, Summer 1993 SOLD OUT | Cover - "Elsie COWllectibles", 32 pages. Farm Show, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream history, children's story "MOOO Are You?" by Mark Schietinger, Lois Stark tells about a birthday she won't forget, Elsie COWllectibles, MOOsworthy items, COWrrespondence. |
| Issue #17, Fall 1993 | Cover - "Cow Paper Cutting", 40 pages. Bovine quotations, Mark Twain on how milk gets into a cow, Walt Disney's Minnie MOO, "My Name is LC" by Elsie Van Savage, report on July's Collectors' Showcase Weekend, "Thelma's Story". |
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Issue #18, Winter 1994 SOLD OUT | Cover - "Hereford Cow" by Mary Miller, 32 pages. Lois Stark on the birth of twin calves, COWntest announcement, "Steak in Arabia" by Bara Swen, COWllectible report on Sebastian's Jell-O cow pitchers, "Dear Bossie or Voices from the Pasture," MOOsworthy items. |
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Issue #19, Spring 1994 SOLD OUT | Cover - "Galloway Calf", 28 pages. Galloway cattle, Ruth Klossner's Extraordinary COWllection, "Never on Sunday" by Lois Stark, COWrrespondence, MOOsworthy items, a cow shower & a bovine wedding, First MOOsletter COWnference (August 1994) proposed agenda. |
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Issue #20, Summer 1994 SOLD OUT | Cover - "Milking Time (Scherenschnitte design by Paul D. Beal)", 40 pages. BVD hits W. PA, Dear Bossie, "Dream Cows" (L. Stark's last story for the MOOsletter), Carol relates her trip to MOOnesota & attendance at a COWllectible auction, her visits with Ruth Klossner & Jon McCreight. |
| Issue #21, Fall 1994 | Cover - "Happy Fifth Birthday to the MOOsletter", 44 pages. Photos and extensive COWverage of the first MOOsletter COWnference, COWmplete History of the MOOsletter, License to MOO COWntest winners, COWrrespondence, MOOselaneous items. |
| Issue #22, Winter 1995 | Cover - "Baby, world's most pampered bovine", 32 pages. The Wallechs' "Baby" bull, "MOOsings" by Pat Brickman, Subscriber Alice Johnson, Elsie COWllectibles, cream separators, "When is a cow more than a cow?", MOOsworthy items. |
| Issue #23, Spring 1995 | Cover - "Cow Photograph by James Lee Soffer", 24 pages. COWllections --fad of fixture?, cow zines, Becky's COWrageous comeback, the Bovine Boutique, UDDER MOOsworthy items. (Guest editor and intern for this issue: Dawn Bokenkamp) |
| Issue #24, Summer 1995 | Cover - "COWmputer COW", 36 pages. Jamaican cow story by Nix Farmer, MOOving poetry, lactose intolerance, "The Picture of a Cow" by Ben Ohmart, ice cream facts, Farm Show update, Ruth Frazier's real cows and cow puppet, women in agriculture. |
| Issue #25, Fall 1995 | Cover - "Robert Landers and The MOO Crew", 36 pages. Agricultural museums, wacky ice cream flavors, Life with George by Mabel McGinnis, The MOO Crew, Leilani's COWstumed COW named Pumpkin in story and photographs, bovine quotations, BULL mystery, and MOOre. |
| Issue #26, Winter 1996: | Cover - "England's Dairyland Farm World", 32 pages. "Shamlet" by the Capitol Steps, Kellogg Farm Dairy Center, "Cow Patty" names cows, "The Cow Thing" fiction by Gary Grantham, "Bovine Airborne" by Mad Dog Productions, poetry by Jan Strever, Dairyland Farm World tourist center in the U.K. |
| Issue #27, Spring 1996 | Cover - "Bruce Sykes MOO ART truck", 28 pages . Cow Collectors Online, cow eggs, COWrrespondence, Milton Keynes (UK) cow sculptures, British bovine poetry, review of A Field Guide to Cows, "Cream City" comic strip, MOOsworthy items, and MOOre. (Guest editor for this issue: Pam Pickens) |
| Issue #28, Summer 1996 | Cover - "Christopher and his calf, Molly Z" photo by Ruth Klossner, 36 pages. Susan Tiemann on COWllecting Cows, "The Afternoon Stroll" by Helen Fellows, Fantasy fiction "Why I'm Traveling with a Talking Cow" by Michael Payne, "A Bovine Lesson" by Bill Poston, "A MOO from Germany" by Nicole Norris. |
| Issue #29, Fall 1996 | Cover - "Michele Mack and her Cow Jeep", 32 pages. "Give a Cow this Christmas" poem by David Dickson, Keith Bellinger's account of raising Daisy-Mae, Susan Tiemann on COWllecting Cows, Hamburger history, "The Meaning of Cheese", Mary's Moo Moos, Organizing your COWllection. |
| Issue #30, Winter 1997 | Cover - "Elsie celebrates the Year of the Cow", 36 pages. MOOsworthy items and MOOs in the News, 'faMOOus' cows crossword puzzle, Ice Cream: the real scoop, Bossie goes to the MOOvies, Heifer Project International, poetry. |
| Issue #31, Spring 1997 | Cover - "Collecting Cheese Labels", 32 pages. COWtoonist Randy Glasbergen, review of Beginning Farming... by Lowell Christensen, Susan Tiemann on COWllecting Cows, new MOOsletter editor announced, bovine haikus, COWntest, Cow talk on the Internet, MOOselaneous items. |
| Issue #32, Summer 1997 | Cover - "Cow Tessellation" by Carol J. Peiffer, 36 pages. Cow Deltiology (Postcard Collecting), Bovine Puzzles, LeAnn Ralph's article about a cow named Number, poetry by Betty Lightfoot, Farm Show Update, Global Cow Ltd. |