Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Milk

I spent 3 summers on a dairy farm when I was 8, 9, 10 ... Most of the milking was done by a milking machine. The last several cups had to be milked by hand. There was always a fly or two falling into the pail. That milk was poured through a filter. The farm family drank raw milk. My mother would never let me taste it because I was a sickly child although she had grown up on a farm and drank raw milk. In the final decade of the farm's operation ALL of the milk when from the cow STRAIGHT into a cooling tank. A truck would come from the dairy every other day to empty the tank and take it to the dairy where it was then pasteurized. 

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