Show milk records in wales kept by measurement the measuring and recording of abo amount of milk given hj cows has a much lengthier history than many peo pie might suppose according to an article in the 1 arm and stock breeder recording Is not a new fan aled idea in wales it was carried on in the principality before the tenth century the farmers of wales used to migrate to the bills in summer time they used to put the milk of their cows in a common churn and they had to keep a record of it in order to divide the produce of butter and cheese satisfactorily the cows were turned into untouched and their milk yields measured not weighed as Is the practice today and the produce of butter and cheese waa handed over according to what each cow had yielded on any particular day the record waa in accordance with what was known as the measure a vessel which was three thumbs across the bottom sir thumbs across the middle nine thumbs across the top and nine thumbs diagonally A thumb was about an inch so that th measure held about a gallon of milk and a normal cow waa expected to gle about two gallons a day three times a day milking was also well known in wales in the twelfth century and the month 0 may was known as the month of three a day silence la a powerful argument |