Disaster And A Dilemma

One of the first crops that we planted was soy beans that we made into good quality hay for dairy cows. I had never seen it before and we found it to be very worthwhile. When we moved, we brought with us seven cows and we borrowed three hundred dollars from the bank to buy two more. We sold the milk to Martin Century Farms which was just outside Lansdale, and our relationship with them lasted over six years until, in 1939, a routine examination revealed that all the cows had Bangs Disease. This is a contagious disease among cattle that causes them to abort their calves and makes them almost useless for milk production, and the Department of Agriculture requires them to be destroyed.
This left me with a serious decision to make. Should I give up farming and take a job at something else?