Homesteading 



canned milk, or even none at all, while I, usually 

 the more conservative, maintained that if we 

 could pick up a cow for forty or fifty dollars it 

 would be money well invested. 



Tom said she would be such a bother when 

 we came to move about next spring, and besides, 

 he knew nothing about milking. 



To which I returned we could easily take her 

 with us, as we had done Nancy ; and as regards 

 milking, the sooner he learnt the better. 



So at length we decided that if we could strike 

 a bargain with either of the men who already 

 owed us money for our labour we would have 

 a cow. 



This eventually proved to be the case with 

 Jones, and we brought Bossy proudly home, and 

 having also bought a simple stone- jar churn and 

 deep milkcan, were soon able to enjoy our own 

 butter and milk, not to mention cream, if we 

 wished it. 



As the cream milkcan is a very useful article 

 for the one or two cowkeeper, and I have never 

 seen one in Britain, I will describe it : About 

 eighteen inches high and ten inches in diameter, 

 it has a top with a hole covered with a wire- 

 gauze strainer, and the top when reversed is 

 used for straining. At the bottom there is a 

 tap for drawing off the skimmed milk, and a glass 



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