Milking time in a Pennsylvania dairy barn

Peek into a farm family's evening routine with their animals

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. Collection Highlights Pennsylvania dairy barn, May 1943 June is National Dairy Month! To celebrate, we share this 78-year-old photograph of Ayrshire cows at evening milking time on the Loy family dairy farm in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Loy hand milks a cow. Her 12-year-old son Walter pours the milk through a strainer into one of the 10-gallon cans that will later be taken to a nearby receiving station. Sixteen-year-old Edgar adjusts the milking machine. The barn cat waits patiently for a hand-out! This is one of hundreds of photographs in the Emerson Merlyn Brooks Papers and is featured in the Special Collections exhibit: The American Dairy Industry.

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