Although there had been dairy cows in some capacity since 1847 (allegedly), the era of the dairy farm that would define Marathon County’s agriculture began in part thanks to the efforts of Fred Reickbrock and the Gurensey cattle he brought to his Helendale Farms.
a brochure for a dairy farm, 1911
Testing to see how the full thing shows up or if we need to look at other ways of making the full text available. Maybe it isn’t necessary, but would be nice to include. Bob Sanders did a pretty dang good job here.