On the 500-acre Coonamessett Ranch Company farm, a windmill and water tank were part of an irrigation system that used pond water. Photo courtesy of the Anita and Robert Gunning collection.
Brae Burn Farms pasteurized, bottled, delivered and sold milk and cream in Falmouth. Photo courtesy of the Anita and Robert Gunning collection.
Hilding Hord milking a Jersey cow at his 92-acre Mystic Lake Farm in Marstons Mills, which he ran from 1922 to 1962. Photo courtesy of the late Kevin Galvin and the Marstons Mills Historical Society
From his 94-acre farm located northwest of Town Cove in Eastham, Abelino Doane delivered milk, even to Chatham Bars Inn in June 1914. Image from 1903, H.K. Cummings Collection of Snow Library, Orleans.
Atamannsit Farm’s expensive Guernsey cows displayed for sale in 1922. Photo from the Guernsey Breeders’ Journal. July 1, 1922, page 4.