The third day of Pongal is dedicated to cattle and is called Mattu Pongal. People offer prayers to the bulls, cows and other farm animals. Cows and bulls have always held a special place in India. Cows give nourishing milk while bulls and oxen help plough the fields. Thus, Mattu Pongal is a day when cattle are given pride of place. The farmers honour their cattle friends by celebrating it as a day of thanks-giving to them. 

On this celebratory, joyous day cattle are washed, their horns are painted and they are fed with Pongal and given a well deserved day of quiet and rest.

“MANITOBA SUGAR BEET TESTS ARE SUCCESSFUL,” Winnipeg Tribune. September 29, 1931. Page 3. --- The sugar beet potentialities of Manitoba were again successfully demonstrated today when a party of 30 member of the Industrial Development board witnessed harvesting and loading operations of sugar beets at the experimental plots at Headingiy. The quality of the product is rated as high as any grown on the North American continent. 

The board has arranged for visit to Van Home's farm, East Selkirk. Friday, leaving Winnipeg at 4 p.m. The public are Invited to make acquaintance with the latest developments in the handling of beet.