Houses and horses and cows, oh my!

I have been busy writing. And the latest project is counting houses, horses, and cows in town. Not literally ... historically. The town tax valuation lists have all kinds of good data on farm animals. It is all public.

My spreadsheet summarizing some of what I found is Here.

Updates and write-up to follow.

Kim Hansen, “A cow taking rest,” 2009, Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cow_(Fleckvieh_breed)_Oeschinensee_Slaunger_2009-07-07.jpg.

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