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produces. Mine are only of what she produces 

 after she is finished with her calf and her milk 

 starts coming in the house. One typical cow yielded 

 5474.6 pounds in 1936 and 4691.6 pounds in 1937, 

 a little less than eight and one-half, a little more 

 than seven, quarts a day for the 306 and 312 days 

 she worked for us. Two or three cows that average 

 2400 quarts a year will supply a family of four. 

 You may even wonder what one family can do 

 with seventeen quarts of milk a day the year 

 round. Well, as I said, you would be surprised 

 how much more a family can use when there is 

 plenty. We are all milk-drinkers, so we use four 

 to six quarts a day that way. Then there are 

 the two quarts a day the hired man gets. It is 

 easy to use a quart every day or two as junket, 

 which can be made without cooking when the 

 milk is warm from the cow. On Medlock Farm 

 these uses account for six to eight or nine quarts 

 a day. Then there is cream. It takes six or eight 

 quarts of milk, depending on the richness desired, 

 to make a quart of cream. An eight-quart Guernsey 

 cream, if pan raised, you could, as Plupy Shute's 

 father said, "lift out of the pan like a old pare of 

 linen britches"; it is considerably richer than 

 Pennsylvania "whipping cream." What with morn- 

 ing cereal, coffee, fruit in season, and such like 

 uses my family can go through a quart of cream 

 a day like nothing at all. There remain cheese, cot- 



