Archive image from page 426 of The dairyman's manual a. The dairyman's manual : a practical treatise on the dairy, including the selection of the farm dairymansmanualp88stew Year: 1888 THE FAMILY DAIRY. 421 tion to a liberal supply of milk and cream for the fam- ily during the whole summer. Four-fifths of this but- ter was eagerly bought by neighbors at fifty cents and upwards per pound, giving a very handsome interest upon the value of the cows. The farm, a few miles distant, had half a mile of road through it, which was kept in good order, without help from the perfunctory road master and
Archive image from page 426 of The dairyman's manual a. The dairyman's manual : a practical treatise on the dairy, including the selection of the farm dairymansmanualp88stew Year: 1888 THE FAMILY DAIRY. 421 tion to a liberal supply of milk and cream for the fam- ily during the whole summer. Four-fifths of this but- ter was eagerly bought by neighbors at fifty cents and upwards per pound, giving a very handsome interest upon the value of the cows. The farm, a few miles distant, had half a mile of road through it, which was kept in good order, without help from the perfunctory road master and his able assistants, in the same way, and excepting the road track was plowed, manured, and seeded with grass and clover and was mowed as regularly as the fields were. An envious Fig. 100. Fig. 101. neighbor, who wished to enforce his rights to do as he pleased on the road and who drove maliciously through the grass, breaking and tearing it down, was promptly prosecuted and fined for trespass, and taught that the road was owned by the owner of the land adjoining, and the public had only a right of passage over it, and only on the beaten track, and that the owner of the land could use it for any purpose he wished provided it did not interfere with this public easement. Thus one may turn this valuable land to good purpose in growing grass for the family cow and making it into hay or cutting
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