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  • Many maids a milking in one Oregon family

    COLLEEN STEWART The Oregonian CORNELIUS, Ore. (AP)

    Tin pail of milk-replacer in tow, Robin Baggenstos and her daughter walk down the dirt road past the cow barn and a field of Queen Anne's lace to feed the wobbly-legged calves. "'Moo' is all she could say when she was little," Baggenstos said, as 3-year-old Danica points out her two cows, Cherry Moo and Dee. Danica has milk in her blood. She's the seventh generation of a dairy-farming family at a time when "dairy farmers are disappearing," her grandmother, Judy Marsh, said. Not only are the Marsh women dairy farmers; they're...