Word: milks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Here are the facts about "Pieter Poth's Calves." Alta Clover and many of her stable mates gave birth to calves during the course of one week. She produced enough milk to nurse six calves and I got the impression when I saw her, that she is not what is known as an "easy milker" to milk by hand. Poth let six calves worry about that rather than his daughters, who milk the cows. A salesman of dairy farm equipment, ignorant of bovine prolificacy, when he saw Alta and six calves in one pen, inquired if she were...
...University uses 18,000 gallons of milk and 15 tons of potatoes every month. Although the latter are fairly stable in price, milk has gone up ten percent over last year. Cauned goods are also more expensive...
...late 60s-in my kid days I didn't stir it in the back yard though. There was a house built over the spring on my father's farm in Pennsylvania. Downstairs was where the springwater ran through a big trough, and there was kept the milk "crocks," butter jars, etc. In that room, we churned the butter in a good old dasher churn. Don't you remember...
...churn my dear Grandmother had Was made of cedar wood, And many a good old fashioned rub Of soap and sand had stood. The hoops that bound it were of brass, And shone like burnished gold. Five gallons too of cream or milk, That good old churn would hold. Ker Chunk, Ker Chunk...
...statues shed blood, why frogs and periwinkles fall to earth in rainstorms, why eels appear in landlocked water. What about the swan which mysteriously appeared in Central Park after the celebrated Dorothy Arnold mysteriously disappeared? What about the Chippewa Indian who prayed for food for his child, promptly drew milk from his breast...