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we got whey back from the cheese factory milk truck.
For years I thought whey back was one word.

In my neck of the woods for years it was dotted with small farms and the Guernsey and Jersey breeds were popular in the 15 - 30 milk cow herds. We actually had a 40 cow stanchion barn. Later, Granddad and Dad built a calf barn and moved out the calves and added another 20 stanchions. County extension agents and banks began encouraging farmers to get bigger and take advantage of economy of scale. Gdad and Dad figured rather than add more cows (Guernsey's) bring Holstein's into the herd because the breed can out produce the Jersey's and Guernsey's. That worked good in theory, however the more Holstein's were added the milk check went down because Holstein's produce lower butterfat.

To bring the milk check back up they were faced with going back to Guernsey's or increase the size of the barn to increase production. They did not want to keep up with the Jones's and go into debt so they sold the milk cows and focused on crops and beef cattle.

Roundoak

Were there any Milking Shorthorn herds near you?

My uncle who lived near Sauk City had a herd of them for several years but eventually switched to Holsteins.

Yes, as a matter of fact, a Great Uncle had a herd circa 1930 - 1965 near Lancaster, WI. His daughters showed them at the local and state fair.

How many 22 barrels got fried shooting sparrows and starlings off that barn roof?

How many 22 barrels got fried shooting sparrows and starlings off that barn roof? [/quote]

My Remington 512A with open sights and I went through about a brick per month. $5.00 a brick for yellow carton Super X's at the local feed mill.

Gophers and barn pigeons got hammered, too! We had the fattest cats around! Even the neighbor's cats would show up when they heard shooting.

WN, with all that shoot'n going on who patched the barn roof?

Head shots!

No whey tank on the truck but I did hear the "ol timers" tell me about it on many occasion. Had a snowplow and chains on one of the rear duals on each side the truck in the winter and helped out many a stuck vehicle with a tow and they followed me down the road if the county was not out. Can remember a time when 20 some vehicles followed me out to the main hwy. Could always move in the snow but steering could sometimes be tough.

I can remember the milk trucks using chains when it got bad, plus there were a couple trucks that had "sanders" mounted just behind the fuel saddle tanks that dropped sand in front of the duals. I think they were used just to get traction from a starting stop then turned off.