[AT] Restriction on selling raw milk...JD "B"

[charlie hill]

Well Charlie I have to defend Steve to a degree.  He grew up in the city, 
went off to college to be a computer geek and worked part time at a pet 
store.  When the store owner decided to sell out he quit college and bought 
it.  That is his entire life experience and all he knows is what he's been 
told by the pet industry and big city vets.   He didn't have the advantage 
of growing up with real life experiences like many of us did. He's good at 
what he does, primarily aquariums and exotic fish but beyond that and being 
a good dad and a pretty good cook he's mostly useless.  grins.

By the way the only remaining dairy in our area is Maola which is now part 
of some big co-op dairy out of PA or maybe NY but they still have a plant 
here.  Back in the day when they had local dairy farms
providing their milk they were 100% Guernsey and they featured that in their 
ads.   That’s some fine milk!

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Charlie V
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 11:51 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Restriction on selling raw milk...JD "B"

Lactose intolerant!!!  When I encounter guys like that I become people
intolerant.

Let me tell a story as I understand it of my very early days on this
earth.  While I was being carried,  Mom was in very poor health (later
had part of her thyroid removed).  I guess I can do that to people.
Due to her health Mom was not able to nurse me.  The going deal for
formula in that day was Pet milk from a can.  It turned out that every
time I was fed the formula, it went sour and came right back up.
Being concerned that I was loosing weight rather than gaining, and out
of worry, my parents decided to take the bull (or in this case, cow)
by the horns. Dad had a good amount of milk processing experience,
having worked in dairys and being part owner of one.  Because of my
being an infant, they took milk from our Guernsey cow and held it at
the proper temperature on the stove for the proper time to pasteurize
it.  At the start two oz. were added to each bottle of formula.  I did
better.  Every day or two, more milk was added and less formula out of
a can.  The more milk, the better I did.  Within a week or so, I was a
straight Guernsey man.  When I was checked by the pediatrician, my
weight was up good and the Doc was all smiles.  Mom and Dad never told
him that his recommended formula was not the reason for my good
health.  Later in my boyhood, we all drank the raw Guernsey milk,
buttermilk (with lots of salt) and made at home butter.  I used to
like to pump the wooden handle up and down on the old crock churn.

As a toddler, I had to be taken to the barn with Mom when she did the
morning milking as no one else was home.  I would squat against the
wall four or five feet from the cow with my mouth wide open and Mom
would shoot milk fresh from the udder at me.  I usually ended up with
some on my face, but most of that good warm milk from old Brownie
actually ended up in my mouth.  One of the benefits of being a "big
mouth".

Mom was always fun to be with.

Nuff said,

Charlie V.





On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:52 AM, charlie hill
<charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Ralph every dairy barn I ever remember going in (not really that many but 
> a
> few) had barn cats and they always seemed to hang around the person 
> milking
> in hopes of getting a squirt.
> I know my grandfathers dairy barn had plenty of cats.  I never saw any of
> them being fed except for mice and birds they killed and bad milk that was
> poured out for them.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Goff
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 10:35 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Restriction on selling raw milk...JD "B"
>
> On 5/4/2011 8:05 AM, Ken Knierim wrote:
>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:11 PM, charlie
>> hill<charliehill at embarqmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Same here Wayne.  I've told lots of folks that ham meat, milk and eggs
>>> killed my grandfather.  He was 95 when it got him.   grins.
>>> I got news for you though.  A friend of mine who owns a pet store tells
>>> me
>>> that cats are lactose intolerant and shouldn't be fed milk.  It'll make
>>> them
>>> sick!
>>> Yep he really told me that!  LMAO
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
>>>
>> Oh, wow... what a crock! Cats are lactose intolerant? Ha! I had a cat get
>> trapped in my shop (didn't know he was there when I locked it up). After 
>> a
>> couple days he lapped up some antifreeze. I gave him milk as the poison
>> antidote but we thought he was a goner. He's still here 7 years later... 
>> I
>> credit the milk with saving him.
>>
>> I'd have to say that a little knowledge is dangerous for some folks. :)
>>
>> Ken in AZ
>>
> Back when we milked cows, the barn cats drank milk twice a day every day
> of their lives and never seemed to suffer any ill effects. Lactose
> intolerant? I doubt it.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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