milkers

Kerries are greatly prized as "milkers," and they yield good beef, but very little of it -- not more than four hundredweight per beast.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

He recalled instead the warm sunshine on the fertile expanse of fields; the sleek, well-fed herds of "milkers" coming lowing down the road under the maples; the prosperous and hospitable farmhouses, with their orchards in blossom and their spacious red barns; the bountiful boiled dinners which cheery housewives served up with their own skilled hands.

The Damnation of Theron Ware Harold Frederic 1877

"milkers," for in his youth Stafford had lived on a farm and he remembered days when his father had sent him out into the meadow to drive the cows home for the milking.

The Two-Gun Man Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

The restaurant bakers and the bakery wagon drivers struck, followed by the milkers, milk drivers, and chicken pickers.

Chapter VII 2010

The fat trimming bacon frying milkers of sacred cows have saved the day.

Matthew Yglesias » Nelson, Collins Slash Education Funding in Stimulus While Touting Stimulus’ Boost to Education 2009

Take the milk reports — ­the individual reports of the milkers — ­so many pounds of milk, morning and night, from cow so-and-so, so many pounds from cow so-and-so.

CHAPTER XXVII 2010

They were shown over the cattery, the piggery, the milkers, and the kennelry, as Mrs. Mortimer called her live stock departments.

CHAPTER III 2010

Parkman, Simpkins has the best long-time record of any of our milkers.

CHAPTER XXVII 2010

Liver transplant: half a dozen dairy cows (guaranteed good milkers), and enough pasture for a year.

Cauliflower for Colonoscopies: This Is Health Care Reform? 2010

The only regret is that while a couple of the more outrageous milkers of expenses have been sacked or demoted, most of them sail on undamaged, “within the rules”.

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