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Bill Herr remembers: We had dairy, hogs, and 200 over Leghorn chickens. When I was a senior in high school I milked 40 head of cows before I went to school in the morning. In 1964, when we finally sold the cattle we had 37 cows.

Don Herr describes the milking process: We’d milk twice a day. We had a pipe line. We had a milking parlor. We’d walk in six cows and would milk three at once. While three were being milked the other three would wait.

The milkers would set underneath the cows and when they were done we’d swing them over to the next cows. We had a 3700 gallon tank where we stored the milk. It was big enough that we had to build an extension on to the milk house to get it in there.

A good cow in a day’s time will give 7 to 14 gallons of milk. Before we acquired the tank, we stored the milk in 10-gallon cans in a big cooler.

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