Yeah, especially if the barnyard is deep mud and manure and the messy cow tail switch comes all the way around your head and goes in your mouth! Ick! I usually trimmed my milk cow's tails so that didn't happen any more.
I also had my best Holstein step on all the toes of my left foot when I was wearing tennis shoes. I wore better footwear when I milked after that.
Growing up I hand milked a minimum of 2 cows and a maximum of 5 all the time, usually alone, since my Dad worked in town on swing shift. I didn't hate the job, and actually made pretty good money doing it, but sure got tired of being tied down all the time.
After I went to college, I didn't milk very much, just during school vacations and some during the Summers. And after graduation, I am not sure I ever milked again. I think my Dad quit having milk cows about that time.
But 40+ years later, I still have an incredible grip, and I think that was from all the hand milking. I don't want to bother with milking cows any more--milk is too cheap in the store, and I don't need the company of a milk cow!
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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