In the early 50's, worked on neighboring farm, believe it or not in Northern Westchester County NY, just 30 miles or so outside of the Rotten Apple, it was 20 milk cows with floor pail milkers, carry to the milk house, dump into cans, heist into spring fed concrete vat to cool; one 8n tractor and an old Wisconsin powered NH 77 baler.
In the early 60's, again a neighbor's farm, another 30 miles out of the city in Dutchess County, 60 cows, floor pails into a dumping station and bulk tank; JD A, B, and 50, #9 mower, crimper, 24T baler, & NI chopper w/concrete stave silo.
In the early 70"s, bought my own place in St. Lawrence County NY, milked 50 head, pipeline, bulk tank, concrete stave silos, fleet of old iron w/one new diesel 70hp tractor for the heavy work. I still have the farm but when I sold the cows in '88 I was one of the last in the neighborhood where there had been 15 dairies when I started.
Today, except for the Amish, most in the area milk upwards of 200 head, many in the thousands, their machinery will cover more ground in an hour than we would do in a week; it's a whole new world.
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