Keeping one cow

"Keeping one cow: Being the experience of a number of practical writers, in a clear and condensed form, upon the management of a single milch cow" by Various is a wonderful book if you like cows or dairying, or agricultural history. It consists of a series of essays in which people living in various parts of the country each describe how they kept their family milk cow: what sort of barn they had, what they fed the cow, and how they retrieved milk.