In this Aug. 25, 2011 photo, Ernest Haugen, 90, right, and his brother Joseph, 86, still work the farm that their father purchased in 1925 in Coon Valley, Wis. The brothers, real Norwegian bachelor farmers, have worked this land longer than any neighbors can remember. Their father, Johan, bought the farm in 1925, 13 years after arriving from Norway. The house dates from 1864. It's a quarter-mile walk to the mailbox. Ernest doesn't mind. As a boy, he walked two miles across the ridge to Erickson school. He said his marks were good and his teacher recommended he go to high school, but his father wouldn't let him. Joseph says he got an F in school. "You know what for? Farming," he says with a grin. "If you got an A, it was for agriculture."
"At the 1939 World's Fair, Massachusetts launched a celebrity onto the world's stage. She had beautiful brown eyes, gorgeous hair, a sultry walk... and horns." .. She was Elsie the Cow, spokescow for the Borden Dairy Company. Elsie's real name was You'll Do Lobelia.
Elsie outside the Rotolactor exhibition at the 1939 World’s Fair, NYC. The Rotolactor, invented by Thomas Edison?