One hundred years ago, in 1911, Wesson J. Dougan finished building an innovative round barn on his dairy near Beloit, Wisconsin. He christened the new building by posting his philosophy of farming on the silo at the center of the barn: THE AIMS OF THIS FARM 1. Good Crops 2. Proper Storage 3. Profitable Livestock 4. A Stable Market 5. Life as Well as a Living This book tells an authentic, sometimes gritty, often humorous story of how the Dougans worked to achieve those aims.

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