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TI: In those days around Bellevue had quite a few dairies, and quite a few poultry farms.

JM: Well, the, most of the Caucasian that lived around there, had cows and chickens.

AI: What about you, did any of your families have any animals? Cows, chickens, other kind of...

TH: We all had chickens.

TI: Yeah, we all had chickens and some had ducks, and some had geese, I think.

JM: We had chickens and, let's see. Well, we had a pig.

TI: Oh yeah. We did, too.

TH: Pigs and chickens. [Laughs]

TI: But I believe most of the Japanese families did not have dairy cows. For one thing, I don't think the farmers had time to milk the cows, I mean, they were so busy trying to raise the produce.

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