MILL CREEK STORIES Thicker Than Water Lots of (non-farm) people think cows are dumb. Think again. by Molly Dugger Brennan I grew up in a lovely farming community in Virginia. It was a great place to be a kid and learn about life. These were not factory farms. These were true family farms, multi14 BlueRidgeCountry.com generational, and if a kid went off to college it was to Virginia Tech to study dairy science or something useful like that before returning to help keep the farm profitable.http://www.BlueRidgeCountry.com