CHAPTER SEVEN 



DAIRY AND YOUNG CATTLE 



IT is humiliating to own that accident and 

 natural evolution have had more to do with 

 our success than perspicacity or logical rea- 

 soning, but it is evidently true, for, in con- 

 ning over events, it becomes apparent that 

 branch after branch of husbandry has been 

 developed without any premeditated plans. 



Originally, we bought Rachel because a 

 country home without a cow is incomplete. 

 Then, when Daisy arrived, she was such a dear 

 little calf we could not let the butcher have 

 her. When she came to milking age, being 

 a pure Jersey like her mother, cream pre- 

 dominated, and we had a superabundance of 

 butter. Two private egg customers were of- 

 fered a few pounds each week, at forty 



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