full-sized battleground dummies of browsing cows

Above News photograph from the New York Times on September 23, 1917, the year that the US entered the war. The caption reads: “A Pastoral Scene Through Which Runs an Important Railway Link Between the French Firing Line and a Base of Supplies. Only the Browsing Cow Happens to be Papier-Maché.” 

In earlier posts, we have featured comparable photographs of full-sized dummies of browsing cows (made of papier-maché), horse carcasses made of plaster, or human figures for the purpose of deceiving enemy observers.