CHAPTER TEN 



GOATS 



SEVERAL fields desirably situated for crops 

 had become overgrown with brush during the 

 years they had lain fallow and as it soon be- 

 came apparent that we should require them in 

 the near future, the most expedient and inex- 

 pensive way of clearing them became a matter 

 for cogitation. Fire was too dangerous, sur- 

 rounded by woods as we were. Building the 

 large silo and a new poultry house was sched- 

 uled for fall work, so the farm staff would 

 not have any slack time that year. Day labor 

 was not to be had for love or money, because 

 the city water company had corraled every 

 unattached man to aid in the construction of 

 a chain of walls which were required to supply 

 the new reservoirs. I do not remember what 

 first suggested goats for the work, though we 



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