Why Cows Need Names: And More Secrets of Amish Farms

Contents

Contents Preface and acknowledgments ix 1 a Bumpy Road ahead 1 2 a New Farm . . . Just Think of the Possibilities 6 3 Who are These amish Folks? 21 4 The Budget Numbers 26 5 Get Bigger and Specialize 34 6 Four Big questions 41 7 Binders, Planters, and Other Such Stuff 47 8 Why Cows Need Names 57 9 Silage 101 72 10 lunch, Talk, and Silage 102 85 11 Milking—a Family affair 95 12 The Comfort of Friends 109 13 Horsemeat for Breakfast 121 14 Tour the Manure 130 15 Manure Minutia and lunch 145 16 Drafted Out of Retirement 156 17 The Milk Price Blues 167 18 “it’s What We Want to Do” 179 19 Chinese under the Maple Tree 188 20 We always Do 199 21 Moving On 210 afterword 227 ...