The Round Barn, A Biography of an American Farm, Volume 1: Silo and Barn, Milkhouse, Milk Routes

Based on extensive primary materials from the Dougan Dairy of Beloit, Wisconsin, The Round Barn tells an authentic, sometimes gritty, often humorous story of a life as well as a living. Making use of extensive oral histories, documents, letters, diaries, photographs, and creative nonfiction, Jacqueline Dougan Jackson faithfully re-creates the story of her family’s farm in a chronicle that spans over seven decades.

Volume 1 focuses on the farm’s milk business-from tending the cows to processing the milk to milk delivery-and it illustrates the partnership between the Dougan Dairy and the University of Wisconsin’s College of Agriculture in all its groundbreaking scientific influence.