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share-milk en · VERB
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(alt-of, 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: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: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:
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