Many maids a milking in one Oregon family

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 royalty. Baggenstos and her sisters, Amy Franck and Anna Marsh, are f...