Belle Springs Dairy

Christmas Eve... what a beautiful day. One feels it would be a beautiful day even if the weather were stormy, with the snow and sleet we had earlier instead of this clear blue sky and soft winter sunshine. One feels the spirit of Christmas and wonders if animals really do talk on Christmas Eve at midnight and if so, what do they say? Farmer girl doesn't wonder; she feels her cows really do talk to her all through the year. What would Butternut say if she saw someone nestling

Des morgenstund hat gold in mund! From a centuries-old German poem. Translated that comes to "the morning-hour is golden", meaning work...

Life on the farm has reached a slow boil. Temperatures hang around 90 during the day and cool only slightly during the night. In a way it...