Well, I think that the purpose at one level was that city kids had no idea where milk came, where eggs come from, and they had no idea about the rural type of farm environment that would as part of their lives, you know, “Where does milk come from?” “The supermarket where I get it out of a thing.” So I think working with the farm associations, Lester Fisher wanted a farm in the zoo, but he also, “Where do we put it? ‘Cause we only had so much space.” But at the same time, they realized that if they put it within the zoo, all of the animals came under USDA restrictions of moving in and out of the zoo.
