to begin yielding a renewed or greatly increased supply of milk
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It would be late in the fall you’d get good work so you’d trash, the grain that they had, and then you’d get lots of work for grinding and selling feed, when the cows freshened in April or maybe March or (…) they’d buy quite a lot then till they got them out on pasture. |
To begin yielding a renewed or greatly increased supply of milk; coming into milk. |
| Example | Meaning |
And then the cows would start to freshen again about February, and the cheese factories would open we'll say, maybe the middle of March, but there used to be two cheese factories on the Trent-Road here between Trenton; between here and Bayside in-fact. |
To begin yielding a renewed or greatly increased supply of milk; coming into milk. |
But you expect summer milk because it's natural for an animal to freshen it's ah, a cow, if she slept...Now, contrary to the human race, they say that they're in season all the time, but you could put a bull out there in the field with the cattle but he'd never touch one of those cows unless that cow came into heat. |
To begin yielding a renewed or greatly increased supply of milk; coming into milk. |
| Example | Meaning |
Well, ah, but you'd have to freshen, before you milk her, though. |
To begin yielding a renewed or greatly increased supply of milk; coming into milk. |
The cattle were- they'd be freshen them 'til the spring, and they did it on the grass. |
To begin yielding a renewed or greatly increased supply of milk; coming into milk. |
| Example | Meaning |
Well of course now it's a cow freshened. |
To begin yielding a renewed or greatly increased supply of milk; coming into milk. |
