Show milk records in wales wale kept by measurement the measuring and recording ot of the amount ot of milk given by cows cow has a much lengthier history than many people might suppose according to an article in the farm and stock breeder lillak lill lk recording la Is not a new fara fan aled idea in wales it was carried on in the principality before the tenth century the farmers of 0 wales used to migrate to the hills in summertime summer time they used to put the tha milk of their cows in a common chum and they had to keep a record ot of it in order to divide the produce of butter and cheese satisfactorily the cows were turned into untouched pasture and their air milk yields measured not weighed as la Is i the practice today and the produce of butter and cheese was banded over according to what each cow had yielded on any particular day the record was in accordance with what was known as the vene doblan measure a vessel which was th ajeo vea thumbs across the bottom six thumbs across the middle nine thumbs thumb across the top and nine thumbs diagonally A thumb wag waa about an inch so that the benedo thin alan measure held about a gallon ot of milk and a normal cow was expected to give about two gallons a day three times a day milking was also well known in wales in the twelfth century and the mouth month of may AIRY was known as the month of three milk ings a day |