Although Taken Some Time Ago,

in 1944 as it happens,

when I guess that supermarkets and help yourself convince stores were just starting to arrive, I just could not think why some one would want to buy and strap a cow to their car, but now I have it, the picture shows a papier-mâché cow owned by the Women’s Land Army, a women’s auxiliary organization in Australia (and other Commonwealth nations) during World War II, Mrs. Mellor, an officer in that organization, is securing the cow to her car, She’s taking it to an experimental farm outside of Victoria where it would be used to train people how to milk a cow, so that's how you learn to milk a cow.