Text 300, 52 rader
Skriven 2009-10-03 18:19:32 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
    Kommentar till text 299 av Peter Knapper (3:772/1.0)
Ärende: 65 years ago!
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04 Oct 09 12:39, Peter Knapper wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> Later on the barn was plumbed and the milk
 RW>> was pumped into a tank in the milk-room, where it was cooled until
 RW>> it was picked up by the milk tanker. Of course the Grade A milk was
 RW>> tested and filtered before it left the farm.

 PK> I wasn't brought up on a farm but I have been around Milk Farms in my
 PK> early years. As a kid, our regular holiday spot was in an ex Army hut
 PK> at a beach at the end of a long gravel road (28 miles of ONE WAY
 PK> gravel if I remember correctly, its all sealed and 2 lanes wide now).

Things change like that.

 PK> When we went to the beach we NEVER used to travel in the Morning in
 PK> case we ran into the Milk truck coming the other way, otherwise we
 PK> could end up having to reverse a mile or 2 until we found a spot wide
 PK> enough to pass each other.....;-)

Hmmm. I had that experience the last time I went north to visit my sister.
She lives in the country on a paved road, but the one I took (no longer
familiar with the area) was gravel. I saw this huge truck bearing down on
us and he was taking his half of the road out of the middle. If I hadn't
pulled off the road, I've no doubt he would have hit us.

 PK> There was one farm the next bay around past the end of the road, and
 PK> when the tide was in, the farmer used to row a small boat around with
 PK> 2 FULL Milk Churns in the boat to be picked up by the Daily Milk
 PK> truck. He took the 2 Empty Churns back with him... You DO remember
 PK> milk Churns don't you?..;-)

You bet. Although we call them 'cans'...they were a collectors item back
in the 70s and 80s as every city slicker in the country went looking for
them.

 PK> Now THOSE were the days (about 50 years ago now)....;-)

We may have visited the farm before my dad went off to war, but I don't
remember that if we did. After he got home in 46, that's when I remember
their farm with a small herd of milking cows, pigs and chickens. My uncle
then bought a bigger farm and everything was the same except he had a huge
apple orchard and a stream, which came with ducks. As small kids, we had
to cross that pasture and stream to get to the orchard. That pasture held
pigs and they weren't very friendly. Later, in the mid-50s when I was a
teenager, he had to get rid of all the animals except the cows to become a
Grade A dairy farm. As a teen then, I was no longer interested in cows...

                R\%/itt

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