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other containers and let down in the well. A little later, tanks of cold water were <br />used to set the milk cans in, which was changed often in warm weather. About 1900, <br />cream separators, such as Blue Bell and Delaware came on the market and we <br />separated the milk while warm, then the cream was cooled and kept in a cool place <br />to be churned in much the same way. Then folks began to put up ice in sawdust, <br />that was cut from lakes and river, in a shed built for that purpose. About 1914, the <br />Twin City dry milk factory organized in Anoka. Farmers hauled whole milk in five <br />gallon cans to the factory. Stricter laws of care of milk were made. Milk had to he <br />sweet and in clean cans; stirred and cooled, usually in cold water pumped by gas <br />engine and changed often. This factory made butter and cheese which we bought <br />back at wholesale prices and also dry milk and buttermilk for pigs and calves. Now, <br />these factories are gone. The farmers that are left have milking machines, big vats <br />for milk electrically cooled, and big milk trucks come and pump the milk from the <br />vats into the milk truck tank and it is hauled to Minneapolis to be processed and <br />packaged for distribution. <br />All this work is done for us and still we don't know our neighbors as in the <br />olden days when folks didn't have this or horses. Neighbors cared enough to go to <br />homes of sick folks and offer their services, especially when a new baby was expect- <br />ed. Someone so ill needed help. Or death in the family; someone always went and <br />stayed with the family until after the funeral. No one would go back. With all <br />these privileges, many of us are so satisfied we are not concerned with the needs <br />of our neighbors. <br />57 <br />