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The barn burned in July of 1964. Dad,my uncle and some of the neighbors put up this shack to milk cows until they got a new barn built. I remember snow was flying that fall before we quit milking in this.

That's me down on my knees,Uncle Donald coming out from between the cows,Dad and my youngest brother over by the gate.
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Neat picture. You make things work till things get fixed. What would the milk inspector say about that today?
 
I can't even imagine. We were selling Grade B canned milk to the local Carnation condensary at the time. Things were pretty lax back then.
 
rrlund:

Randy, just curious, back then did you sell your milk as "whole milk" or did you separate the cream and sell it as 2 products?

Doc
 
Whole milk. Interesting difference back then to those who know the dairy business,the price was based on 4% butterfat,not 3.5%. It was adjusted three cents above or four cents below 4%. More Jerseys and Guernseys back then I suppose.
 
At least some air can move through the structure when you are milking. I hated coming in from working out in the hot fields and then have to go inside the barn with no breeze and set next to a hot old cow.
 
Whats the difference between grade A and B milk. Stopped over at the one nighbors and he was all wound up, and has blisters all over his hands. He was cury combing the cows to clean them up before the inspector came. Said he had to do it if he wanted to sell grade A milk...
 
Grade A can be used for fluid milk. Grade B has to be made in to hard dairy product. Cheese for the most part these days. The Amish still have a Grade B canned milk cheese plant here in the county.
 
Ya,that must have been real soon after the fire. Later on there was more roof out in front where that hay is to keep hay and grain under cover and half of the back was enclosed to keep the cold wind out.
 
Never give up!
I like the photo and the story behind it.
It would be a cool photo to colorize.

-karl f
p.s. in the 1980s-90s I was a child and asked what the difference between the milk grades were and my dad and uncle replied "a drilled well." We were B until the end.
colorization of historical photos
 
It's the one on the left in the background of this picture. The milkhouse out in the front of it was added later,around 1971 or so. I added that to put in a bulk tank. Dad just had a can cooler sitting outside.
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We milked in the corner of the old 1870's barn either by hand or later with a Surge bucket with a little vacuum pump. There was a manure carrier on a track that went out to the barn yard. The milk was carried up to milkroom where it was run through a separator. The skim milk was fed to calves and to hogs. In the 60's I bought a can cooler. Before the separator, the milk was poured into pans where the cream was skimmed and made into butter on the farm. Great grandmother won blue ribbons for her butter which was put into decorated molds.
How low would the unemployment rate be if small farms and herds remained? And wouldn't small towns still be thriving?
Thanks for the picture--Rand
 
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