Earlier this week, while going through The Express picture files, I found a picture taken about 45 years ago at the Sullivan Dairy which was then located west of the Superior Airport. The dairy had built a new milking barn and installed a carousel. When the dairy cows were brought in, they stepped onto the carousel. The milk man or milkmaid, as the case might be, stood in the center and did their thing with the cows as the animals rode past on the rotating carousel.
The operation of the carousel was much different than the herringbone style of milk parlor I learned about while enrolled in ag journalism at Kansas State University.
The new milk parlor concept attracted visitors from around the world.
I no longer remember who the visitors were the day I visited the barn and took the picture but I enjoyed looking at the picture of John Sullivan using a sauce pan to fill the visitors’ cups with fresh milk.
Made me remember my childhood and how good fresh milk was from the cow. I don’t miss the daily chore of milking and separating (which thankfully was my dad’s job) but I do miss the taste of fresh milk and seeing the cats line-up waiting for the first squirts from the cow’s utter.
As a youngster, my milk didn’t have to be cold but I wanted it before the cream had time to raise, In those days the American Dairy Association advocated a youngster needed four glasses of milk each day and adults needed three glasses.
It was easy for me to get the recommended four glasses. I could drink an entire quart of fresh milk for supper.
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While I don’t think former-president Trump’s call to terminate the United States Constitution and return him to the White House will gain any traction, it does appear President Biden is changing this country’s presidential election process.
The Iowa Caucus is probably finished as the Democrats are likely to adopt a new plan being advanced by Biden. Though I have never lived in Iowa, I liked having a nearby state play a key role in selecting who the candidates would be.
In a story about the caucus, a New York Times writer recalled 1975 and a little-known Georgia governor’s run for the White House. Jimmy Carter showed up in Des Moines to kick-off an improbable campaign for president. His team rented a hotel ballroom and bought enough food for 200 people. Only three showed up.
So Carter started working the streets and stores and spent most of a year in Iowa. When Carter visited a barber shop, he introduced himself by saying, “My name is Jimmy Carter and I’m running for president.” And the barber supposedly said, “Yeah, the boys and I were just laughing about that.”
From that modest start, something big grew. Carter beat every other candidate in the caucus and went on to win not only his party’s nomination but the White House.
Now, nearly a half century later, that launch pad is shutting down. The Democrats’ rules and bylaws committee has approved a schedule putting South Carolina first, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada and then Georgia and Michigan.
For nearly a half-century, our neighbor Iowa was a proving ground but that appears to have ended just like the Rambler automobile.
There was a time in the late 1950s when Rambler beat out Plymouth to be the third best selling automobile nameplate in the United States. Today neither Rambler nor Plymouth are being built.
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