ABSTRACT
Roseville, a village in Wisconsin, is approached on the state highway as it curves and climbs through the countryside. There are dairy farms, some with three or four silos attached to the barn (to store cut fodder), some with one silo, and a few with none. The number of silos is an indication of the size of the operation. A three silo farm is likely to have about a hundred head of milking cows and about 300 or more acres of land, most of it used as pasture for com and for hay. There is usually a woodlot. These are not farms where food is produced in gardens and pigs and chickens are kept to feed the family. They are farms where milk is produced to obtain cash. They are big businesses.
