KEEPING ONE COW. 



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prised at the sum total. But if they could see the amount they 

 could and would consume if they didn't have to buy, surprise 

 would be a very mild way of putting it." The same rule applies 

 to the keeping of a cow. We buy one quart a day and manage 

 to get along with it. Our cow gives us from ten to twenty quarts a 

 day and we make way with the greater part of it. I think with a 

 cow and a garden one may manage to live, but life without either, 

 according to my ways of thinking, would be shorn of many of 



