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...pours his machine-made money into old china and silverware whose chief virtue is that they are handmade and therefore obviously very expensive. To show that he can afford to be "conspicuously wasteful," he turns a stretch of productive pasture into a non-productive park, boots out the "useful" cow that grazes there and replaces it with a herd of useless deer...
...keeps house. Then she got into oilskins, rubber boots and sou'wester, rowed a mile and a half through the bay's ice floes to haul her lobster pots. She rowed to the collecting smack to sell her catch, then headed home again. There she milked the cow, fed it and the horse, did the barn chores, and before cooking lunch got in a few licks at a fence she was fixing. In the May-to-October fishing season, that is daily routine for Annie Lyons...
...French monastery some 700 years ago, and the sag hadn't changed. Neither had the court, very much-it still had most of the features of the old courtyard the monks used. On three sides, a sloping roof (called penthouse) was a memento of the monastery's cow sheds...
...summer of 1925 I offered Mrs. Riddle $20,000 for Anesthesia Faith of Hillstead, whose record of 19,741 milk, 1,112 fat was then the record of the breed. My offer . . . was declined, and the cow died without ever having another calf. When Mrs. Riddle founded Avon Old Farms she by no stretch of the imagination owned a cow worth $60,000 or one-tenth as much...
...TIME'S Education researcher certainly milked the wrong cow...