The friend of the family selected the cow. She was a fine, fresh, young Jersey and Alderney cross--a high-grade animal, good for quality as well as quantity of milk and cream. There was small, well-built barn on the place, and here the cow was stabled. Cleanliness was the first, last, and intermediate law in and about the place. The boys had clothes expressly for barn wear and white aprons with long sleeves to put on when milking. Such unusual attention to details attracted customers until the demand went far ahead of the supply. For the first six months the cow gave, on an average, sixteen quarts a day, fourteen of which were sold to persons who came for it, thereby saving all trouble and cost of delivery. Two quarts were kept for the family. For the next four months the sales were twelve quarts a day. Feed for the cow cost one dollar a week, besides hay and corn-stalks. The cow was bought late in July, and by the first of August the milk trade was well established. After ten months' experience the boys made up a statement to show to their father when he returned from a trip to Europe. CREDIT 1,200 doz. corn at 20 cts. a doz. $240.00 Stalks 20.00 Milk, 184 days, 14 qts. at 8 cts. a qt. 206.08 " 120 " 12 " " " " " 115.20 -------- $581.28 DEBIT 1 cow, $60.00; 1 ton hay, $18.00; feed, $40.00 $118.00 -------- Profit, cash on hand $463.28 Value of 1 cow 60.00 -------- Total assets $523.28 NELSON S. STONE RAISING PIGS When I was nine years old I laid the foundation of my college fund. My grandmother had a flock of twenty or thirty geese which were kept for the pillows and feather beds they filled. Great was my delight when grandma told me that she would give me a pig if I would help her pick the geese. Helping her would have been reward enough, for I was a great grandma girl, but the ambition of my childhood was to own a pig. Did not my elder brother now own a beautiful mare and colt, and had he not started with a pig?