The white building on the left was the milk house, used during the latter years of the Thoreson Farm operation, when the milk had to be sold to a dairy in Traverse City for pasteurization.  The milk house was equipped with an electric cooler. 

Earlier, the milk was cooled in the basement of the house with ice cut from Glen Lake.  Most of it was separated on the farm, and the cream was brought to a creamery in Cedar or Lake Leelanau, where it was made into butter.  It had to be brought every week or two, depending on the season and temperature.  Some of the milk was sold to Fred Baker of Port Oneida Road.  The Baker farm provided milk and other products to Camp Kohahna and Leelanau School.  Some was also sold door-to-door by Ole. 

“The small barn” (right) was originally built as a slaughter house/pig pen.  When Ole built the new pig pen to the east of it, the small barn became a sheep pen, with 50 head.  (They then started doing their butchering in the tool shed.)  Later they had to move their horses out of the main barn because of laws relating to milk production, so they moved them into the small barn.