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Good Ol' Cream

Shelly

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All this talk about milking cows and seperating the cream from the milk brought back alot of wonderful memories of my mother-in-law. She was a very special lady, sure do miss her.

Anyways, she'd milk two or three cows every day, seperate and keep some cream back for us to use and sell the rest to the dairy pool. Gave the milk to the few pigs we butchered (best pork ever!) and a few bucket calves. We fed the calves out with the rest of the calves to slaughter weight, and she got the money from those calves.

She taught me how to cook with cream, and now that I don't have it, some things just don't taste the same. Lord, the biscuits she could make! Haven't had one near as good since she's been gone. My mouth is just watering for one now.
 

Manitoba_Rancher

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When we had the dairy cows we used to ship cream. The milk we separated off was fed to pigs. We would fill a 5 gallon pail half full of ground barley and fill her almost to the top with milk. In the morning it would be like a big bowl of porrige for the pigs. People just loved the pork from them. We always sold out in no time.
 

Faster horses

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We sold milk, eggs and cream starting in the 60's. I had a regular milk route I delivered to. Finally, the last cow died of pneumonia in 1982 (no, it wasn't the same cow we milked in the 60's~thought I would head that off before it was mentioned :wink: ) but she got a fast pneumonia and died. That was the end of hand milking cows.

Our cows names: Belle, a Guernsey that died in a bad spring storm in 1973. Blue, a shorthorn Holstein cross that was probably the best milk cow of all; Dribbletit, a Guernsey cross and the cow I learned to milk on; Darby, who came from Darby, Mt. She had horns and was a real rip; HoneyDew, a holstein, and she was the last one. There were others, but these were the most memorable.

I remember now too, we used to milk a Black Angus Holstein cross in the very beginning. Blue was the best. Best milk, best cream, best calf, best everything.

I missed the milk cows but never missed having to wash the seperator.
That was a tedious job.
 

Team1roper

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Grew up on a dairy here and boy do I remember the ol stainless pitcher moma had and would send me down to the barn for a pitcher of milk
and when we would milk cows there was always a can of nestles quick in the cabinet
that was the good days
 

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