milk churn
{{Short description|Tall conical or cylindrical container for transporting milk}}
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A milk churn is a tall, conical or cylindrical container for the transportation of milk.{{cite web|url=http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/milk-churn |title=milk churn – Definition from Longman English Dictionary Online |publisher=Ldoceonline.com |access-date=11 April 2013}} In North America, it is often referred to as a milk can.
History
The usage of the word 'churn' was retained for describing these containers, although they were not themselves used for 'churning' butter. The milk churn was also known as the milk kit in Northern England or a tankard in the Welsh Marches. The 12-gallon steel churns were later replaced with 10-gallon aluminium alloy churns. Their lids had a small hole in its outer rim for tying the producers label on.{{cite web|first=Mike |last=Smith |url=http://www.igg.org.uk/gansg/12-linind/milk.htm |title=Milk – Dairies and Creameries |publisher=Igg.org.uk |access-date=11 April 2013}}{{cite web|title=Hansard, 10 July 1978|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1978/jul/10/milk-collection|work=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|date=10 July 1978|access-date=28 September 2016}}
Milk churn stands
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In Britain, Ireland and other European countries, milk churns would be left by dairy farmers by the roadside on purpose-built platforms, or stands, at the right height to be loaded on to the dairy's cart or lorry. They fell out of use when milk began to be collected by tanker from the farm and ceased entirely by 1979. Some stands remain in the countryside as historical features, but most have been dismantled or left to decay.{{cite web|title=Ceredigion County Council Museum Collection: Milk churn|url=http://pilgrim.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=2316|access-date=27 September 2016|date=7 January 2005|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012184010/http://pilgrim.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=2316|archivedate=12 October 2011|publisher=Ceredigion County Council}}{{cite web|title=Ceredigion County Council Museum Collection: Milk churn stand|url=https://pilgrim.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=2760|access-date=27 September 2016|date=25 February 2005|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012194121/https://pilgrim.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=2760|archivedate=12 October 2011|publisher=Ceredigion County Council}}{{cite web|title=People's Collection Wales: Milk churn collection|url=https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/18572|access-date=27 September 2016}}
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Gallery
File:BicyclesMilkChurnsKolkata gobeirne.jpg|Milk churns being carried on bicycles, Kolkata, India, 2007
File:Waiting for the milk lorry - geograph.org.uk - 1726411.jpg|Variety of types
File:Metal churns, Cork Butter Museum.jpg|A selection of steel-made milk churns in the Cork Butter Museum, Ireland
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