Chad Kieffer, a third-generation farmer from Utica, Minnesota, has five milkers for his herd of 350 cows. The milkers are squat, patient, persistent workers. They hum around the mooing cows. They are ...
A farmer is sitting by a cow, milking by hand. The year is 1944, the year I was born. He’s milking the same way his father and grandfather did before him. Nothing much had changed in milking cows over ...
'I will never move to town': Nome, ND family one of the few still milking cows the old-fashioned way
NOME, N.D. — There was a time when small, family dairy farms could be found all across our North Dakota and Minnesota townships. Now, some farms in the region are milking more than a thousand cows.
We carried our fresh from the cow milk in a little gallon pail that looked like a miniature ten-gallon milk can. How I would love to get one of those! Way back in the day, when I was probably a ‘tween ...
The milking of ten to fifteen cows an hour with hydraulic apparatus from American homes and gardens.
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Dairy farming has been part of agriculture for thousands of years. This picture from the early 1900s shows the use of ...
NOME, North Dakota — There was a time when small, family dairy farms could be found all across our North Dakota and Minnesota townships. Now, some farms in the region are milking more than a thousand ...
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