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Describes milk production and dairy products made from milk.

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Asch, F. (1988). Oats and wild apples. New York: Holiday House.

A calf and fawn meet.

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Butter - pp. 182 - 183

Cyrus, Kurt. (1997). Tangle town. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Story of a lost cow.

Egan, T. (1996). Metropolitan cow. Boston: Houghton.

A cow and a pig become friends.

Ericsson, J. (1993). No milk! New York: Tambourine Books.

A city boy milks a cow.

Garland, L., and Wigginton, E. (Eds.). (1984). The foxfire book of Appalachian cookery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Milk and butter - pp. 58 - 63

Cheese - pp. 63-72

Gulliford, A. (1991). America's country schools. Baltimore, MD: John D. Lucas Printing Co.

Contents of school lunches for children in early America - p. 253

Gunby, L. (1992). Early farm life. New York: Crabtree Publishing Company.

Hamilton, C. (1974). In no time at all. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press.

Keeping milk and milk products cold - pp. 44-45

Milking - pp. 158 - 159

Hooper, V. ((1956). Ideals: Old fashioned. Milwaukee, WI: Ideals Publishing Co.

Dasher churn - p. 69

Kalman, B. (1998). Hooray for dairy farming! New York: Crabtree.

Describes dairy farming.

Land O' Lakes. Inc. Arden Hills, MN. (Carton for unsalted (sweet) butter).

Gives food value of packaged butter.

Malone, B. (1998). Learning from the land: Wisconsin land use. Madison, Wisconsin: State Historical Society of Wisconsin and U. S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management.

Marigold Foods, Inc. General Offices, Minneapolis, MN 55414.

Information on carton about food value of 2% lowfat milk.

McFarland, C. (1990). Cows in the parlor: A visit to a dairy farm. New York: Atheneum.

Typical day on a dairy farm.

McGuire, E., and Phillips, C. (1929). Adventuring in young America. New York: Macmillan.

Cheese - p. 101

Nida, W. (1934). Explorers and pioneers. New York: The Macmillan Co.

Butter - p. 396

Nida, W. (1924). Following the frontier. Chicago: The Macmillan Co.

Butter - p. 118

Obligado, L. (1993). The chocolate cow. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

Boy in Swiss Alps who wants to keep favorite cow from being sold.

O'Donnell, M. (1957). Singing wheels. Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson and Co.

Churns pp . 74

Milking and caring for cows - pp. 94 - 95

O'Donnell, M. (1940). The companion book for singing wheels. Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson and Co.

Butter - pp. 58 - 59

Parker, G. (1940). Iowa pioneer foundations. (Vol. 1). Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa.

The treatment of the milch cow - pp. 282 - 284

Paterson, K. (1991). The smallest cow in the world. New York: HarperCollins.

Saddness resulting from selling a cow.

Peterson, C. (1999). Century farm: One hundred years on a family farm. Honesdale, Pennsylvania: Boyds Mills Press, Inc.

Phillips, J. & Wilson, H. (1941). Wagons away. New York: American Book Co.

Butter - pp. 76 -77

Rath, S. (1987). About cows. Minocqua, WI: Heartland Press.

Milking history - pp. 89-125

Schertle, A. (1994). How now, brown cow? San Diego: Browndeer Press.

Poetry about cows.

Schwieder, D., Morain, T., & Nielsen, L. (1991). Iowa: Past to present. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press.

Milk and milking - pp. 206, 212

Churning butter - p. 64

Selling butter - p. 68

Seymour, T. (1993). Hunting the white cow. New York: Orchard Books.

People trying to catch the family cow.

Snedaker, M., and Dunfee, M. (1951). Toward modern America. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co.

Butter - p. 92

Tutt, C. (1940). Badger tales. Chicago: Lyons and Carnahan.

Cheese - pp. - 142-146

Waddell, J. & Perry, A. (1949). Long ago. New York: Macmillan.

Butter - p. 147

Walker, B. (1979). The little house cookbook. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers.

Butter - pp. 166-169

Buttermilk - pp. 145 and 220

Butter mold - p. 220

Wigginton, E. (Ed.). (1968). The foxfire book. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday.

Churn dasher (quilting pattern) - p. 147

Churning butter - pp. 185-188

Wigginton, E. (Ed.). (1975). Foxfire 3. New York: Doubleday

Cows, farm usefulness of - p. 97

Butter churns - pp. 369 - 397

Wigginton, E. (Ed.). (1977). Foxfire 4. New York: Doubleday.

Cheese making - pp. 385-393

Wigginton, E. & students (Ed.). (1979). Foxfire 5. New York: Doubleday.

Cowbell making - pp. 64-66; 175-182

Wigginton, E. (Ed.). (1980). Foxfire 6. New York: Doubleday.

Toy - churning woman - pp. 167 - 168

Wigginton, E. & Bennett, M. (Eds.) (1983). Foxfire 8. New York: Doubleday.

Milk pitcher - pp. 295; 366

Butter crocks - pp. p. 212

Churns - pp. 100; 329

Clay and glazes used for - p. 301

Bud Hewell's - p. 292

Cheever Meaders - p. 122

Norman Smith's - p. 259

H. A. Wilson's - p. 295

Wigginton, E., and Bennett, M. (Eds.). (1986). Foxfire 9. New York: Doubleday.

Milking cows - p. 155

Milk sickness - pp. 74, 77

Cheese for dysentery - p. 56

Buttermilk - pp. 63, 357

Cows - pp. 27, 31-32, 155, 157, 181, 357-358, 385-386.

Wilder, L. (1981). Farmer boy. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers.

Making butter - pp. 198-199; 203

Using butter when making candy - pp. 212-213

The butter-buyer - pp. 237-239

Wilder, L. (1981). Little house in the big woods. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers.

Butter, buttermilk, butter-mold, butter-pats - pp. 29-33

Butter in a lunch - p. 172

Butter and cheese- pp. 187-192

Buttered squash - p. 218

Butter as one of foods served to threshers - p. 226

Preference for eating butter and bread instead of beautiful deer - p. 236

Wilder, L. (1981). On the banks of plum creek. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers.

Bread and butter in a school lunch - p. 152

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A cow who longs to have spots like other cows.

Beard, D. C. (1999). Shelters, shacks and shanties and how to build them. New York: Charles Scribner's and Sons.

Kalman, B. (1997). In the barn. New York: Crabtree Publishing Company.

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Davidson, J., & Chase, L. (1999). Farm machinery: Practical hints for handy-men. New York: The Lyons Press.

Gray, R. (1975). The agricultural tractor: 1855-1950. Saint Joseph, Michigan: American Society of Agricultural Engineers.

Miller, L. (2000). Haying with horses. Sisters, Oregon: Small Farmer's Journal, Inc.

Miller, L. (2000). Horsedrawn plows and plowing. Sisters, Oregon: Small Farmer's Journal, Inc.

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Wendel, C. (2000). Standard catalog of farm tractors 1890-1960. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications.

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