share-milk
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Alternative Alternative form of sharemilk.
- Sections will be allotted later this year with herds either milked on wages or share-milked for one season.1947, Appendix to the journals / New Zealand. Parliament.:
- Till then Grant had share-milked on the family's Waikato dairy farm.2001, The Orchardist, page 38:
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- He share-milked and did timber contracting in the off season with the farmer.2015, Nick Farrell, Hermetic Tablet Winter, →ISBN, page 221:
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To milk a cow, sheep, goat, etc for human consumption, while allowing the calf, lamb, kid, etc to continue to suckle from its mother.
- Suckling stimulates milk production and the removal of milk is crucial for maintaining lactation. University of WA trials show share-milked ewes produced more milk than...2001, Farming Ahead with the Kondinin Group - Issues 109-120, page 448:
- I also planned to share-milk the house cow I'd get.2003, Lyn McConchie, Elizabeth Underwood, Daze on the Land: The Further Adventures of a Middle-aged Woman Farmer, →ISBN:
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- One of his school holiday jobs at the Robbs farm had been tending the two cows share-milked with their calves; a system of penning the calves over night, and in the morning hand-milking the mothers first.2010, Nicco McKenzie, Rhythms of Water, →ISBN, page 82: