All American #2
by Debra and Dave Vanderlaan
Title
All American #2
Artist
Debra and Dave Vanderlaan
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Found in western North Carolina in the Smoky Mountains, this 100 year old dairy farm, it's barns constructed of stone, brick, wood, and tin, is still in use after all these years. The cows are bred here, the boys are sold and the girls retained for milk. Behind the barns are the fields of grass and corn for feed...............
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Centralized dairy farming as we understand it primarily developed around villages and cities, where residents were unable to have cows of their own due to a lack of grazing land. Near the town, farmers could make some extra money on the side by having additional animals and selling the milk in town. The dairy farmers would fill barrels with milk in the morning and bring it to market on a wagon. Until the late 19th century, the milking of the cow was done by hand. In the United States, several large dairy operations existed in some northeastern states and in the west, that involved as many as several hundred cows, but an individual milker could not be expected to milk more than a dozen cows a day. Smaller operations predominated such as what you see in this image...
For most herds, milking took place indoors twice a day,[1] in a barn with the cattle tied by the neck with ropes or held in place by stanchions. Feeding could occur simultaneously with milking in the barn, although most dairy cattle were pastured during the day between milkings. Such examples of this method of dairy farming are difficult to locate, but some are preserved as a historic site for a glimpse into the days gone by
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December 30th, 2012
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