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A History of the County of Middlesex
… parishes-was called upon to supply much of the milk, cream, and cheese required in London. A curious … 31 The best milch cows, kept for supplying London with milk, were bred in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Staffordshire. … the cow-keepers do not find a ready sale for all their milk; and in this case they generally set the unsold milk for …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… In the spring of 1984, however, the E.E.C. set limits to milk production by introducing quotas. In Shropshire, as … effects were not dramatic: the number of registered milk producers in the county, for example, fell from 1,382 to … the year 1986-7 but 11 million (2 per cent) more litres of milk were sold off Shropshire farms in 1986-7 than in 1985-6. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… analyses at a very cheap rate manures, feeding stuffs, milk &c., and gives advice upon any subject which the farmer … can ever hope to supersede it for producing beef and milk. Though a good many Irish polled cattle now find their …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… hereabout is but little tillage or hard labour: they only milk cows and make cheese: they feed chiefly on milk meats . . . These circumstances make them melancholy, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… better, as for instance around Warminster. 85 Apart from milk for the house, what dairying there was tended to be sub-let to wholesalers or retailers of milk and butter, rather than carried out by the farmers … whey butter after calving in March and April when the full-milk cheese was being made, or rather more of best butter in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… have assisted the subsequent switch from cheese to liquid-milk production, for the cash return for liquid milk was almost immediate, while cheese had to be stored for … is sent in liquid form to London or to factories and depots in the county. Little dairy produce is made on the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1956), tenant of Inholmes farm by 1910, 9 built up a large milk distribution business in Brighton, with farms in and …
The Aldermen of the City of London
… St. Lawrence Jewry [H.R. 63 (179)] and St. Mary Magdalene, Milk Street [H.R. 63 (189)]. The difficulty that still …
Old and New London
… (in my youth) have fetched many a halfpenny worth of milk, and never had less than three ale-pints for a halfpenny …