The scales for weighing the milk hung from the same beam.

We weighed each milking, and jotted down the weight with the pencil tied to each little book.

All this was to show which of the herd was most profitable, and which calves had better be kept for increase.
This was a new departure in Maine farming.

Cream-separators were as yet undreamed of.

A water-creamery with long cans and ice was then used for raising the cream; and that meant an ice-house and the cutting and hauling home of a year's stock of ice from the lake, nearly two miles distant.
We built a new ice-house near the east barn in November; and in December the old Squire drove to Portland and brought home a complete kit of tools--three ice-saws, an ice-plow or groover, ice-tongs, hooks, chisels, tackle and block.
Everything had to be bought new, but the old Squire had visions of great profits ahead from his growing herd of Jerseys.