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cows would be milked twice a day and each cow would yield about 12 litres
of milk. In the harsh winters, they would live in the cowshed and then
were put out to grass when the spring arrived…
[Joe
Spencer on the cleaning the cowshed]
By
the late 1940's, many dairy farms were beginning to install vacuum pumps,
invariably driven by a static petrol engine. These machines were not very
reliable but it did mean that the whole process of milking a herd became
faster and the work load was reduced….
[Joe
Spencer on vacuum machines]
The
quality of the milk collected from each farm could vary considerably and
the hygiene controls were less rigorous than they are today…
[Andrew
Caldwell on milk collections in the 1940's]
During the 1950's
the dairy industry, like other branches of agriculture benefited from
relatively cheap inputs of materials, especially machinery and fertilisers.
By 1957, liquid
milk was being produced in surplus.
The newly formed 'Milk Marketing Board' collected the milk in tankers.
The whole process became progressively more sophisticated.
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[Joe Spencer
on new milking methods]
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