Found this little prickly creature walking across our lawn this morning. Just had to get a photo.
Ed D said:We like them too Mike. We have a few. ;-)
I can recall the days when working on farms where they had the old cow byres and the only piping was the vacuum line and electricity for milking. The milk was then collected in large stainless steel buckets with the milking apparatus sealed on top. Once the cow had given her milk, it was then carry the bucket to the milk churns in the milk house and once the churn was up to the line, it then had a cooling pipe inserted which had cold water running through and rotated by the propulsion from the flowing water.
The milk was collected back then daily by a truck and taken to the dairy for pasteurisation.
Back then bulk tank milk storage was just beginning to become regular practice along with milking parlours, which reduced the need for the herdsman/woman to keep bending down.
Today, milk collection is now done on a weekly basis (though some smaller farms will have twice weekly collections) with larger farms having massive chilled bulk milk storage tanks and milk churns are a thing of the past, to adorn many gardens.
Ed D said:Mike,
Two seemed to be a common number, probably down to cost for smaller dairy farms.
They certainly had some suction on them....
Great capture Ed, tasty stuff!
Still have two regular youngsters feeding themselves up for the coming colder weather, don't know just how much more hay the resident hoggie can cram in?
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