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Article: Looking Back: ; Mooove over beer, for the king of beverages; Got milk? I would have a cow if I didn't
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Got milk? I would have a cow if I didn't
I reckon I'm part calf. The liquid of my life is milk.
And milk - except for one brief period - has been pleasantly
plentiful in my life to my great satisfaction throughout the years.
As far back as I can remember, we had a cow. And milk a-plenty. A
milking cow was called a fresh cow. A cow without milk was called a
dry cow.
While we had cows in my early youth, I didn't milk them until I
was maybe 8 years old. I envied my older brother who had the milking
job, until he taught me to milk! Then I milked for 10 or 12 years -
as long as we had a cow. We had so much milk that we sold it when we
could, and when we couldn't sell it, we gave it to the pig.
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