Fan (horse) Firth and Claire MacNeill , Verdun Elliott , in milk sleighs ready to go to Circa 1944. Mrs. MacNeill helped with the regular chores on the farm and it was also her job to look after books and keep the accounts in order. She said that she had learned to love farm life as a child when she helped her grandfather on the family farm in Knutsford . Fifty-four families began buying milk from Farms on a regular basis and through the years the MacNeill family gradually increased their Shorthorn dairy herd. "When my husband died we had about seventy-six cattle in the barn, counting the beef. We usually kept twenty milk cows at a time and many of the cattle in our registered stock were prize winners," Mrs. MacNeill said. Milk delivery was a daily service and from 1926 to 1950, hardly a day was missed regardless of the weather conditions. The milk was hauled by horse and wagon or by sleigh in the winter, and the bot¬ tled milk was stored in an ice box until delivery time. Regular inspections of the milk and dairy facilities were a require¬ ment in those days too and farm operations were monitored closely by the government. Many men, upon returning from war, found themselves without a steady income. Some of the returned men would come to Dairy Farm and work to pay for the family's milk supply for the month or for farm produce. Mrs. MacNeill said that she always had a patch of strawberries and a good garden to look after on the two hundred acre farm. ss