--rancher leaves for Dodge, knowing that the foreman is trustworthy and has attended to birth of calves, etc. Gets back, wife is fine, nine pound baby is fine--asks foreman "How everything went with the birth?" Foreman -embarrassed-reluctantly relates that everything went fine, but I sure had a hard time getting her to eat the afterbirth---
(it's a farm joke that generally requires foreknowledge that even cattle will generally eat their own own placenta--)