Interviewer: Do you know um, much about the churning process? Exactly how did your mother make butter? Speaker: Well the- the- kept the cream- we had a cream can and they kept cream in there and it would settle on the top of this can and uh, the cream settled on the top. ... And the- the other milk would be in the bottom and there was a- a little tap on the bottom ...

Interviewer: After the um- after the sap was boiled, and ah, to make syrup, how was the syrup stored? Speaker: Oh, I really don't know. We- we used to get the five-gallon cream can of syrup, and Mother had all the bottles, she used to just have the bottles ready, and the man'd bring it down, he'd talk to my father and mother and bottle the syrup and then they'd put it in the storage.

Speaker 2: Ethan-Watts played. Speaker: And my feet got so tired near the end of the evening. I went into the little kitchen and I sat on a cream can in my wedding dress. (laughs)

Speaker: Yeah, so you had one container in the end, a smaller container of course with the cream and- and a larger container with the skim milk. And the skim milk then was fed to the calves or the pigs, whatever, and, um, the cream was the sold, ah- but it was just put into cream cans and the c-- and the cream cans were down in the basement of the house to keep them as cool as possible and they picked it up once a week. ... Interviewer: So you'd store it in a- how would you store it then? Speaker: Ah there was a, I guess you call it cream cans that were- oh, so big, I-don't-know what, maybe, I-don't- ten gallon or-something.

Interviewer: ... how would you get the- the cream then down- down to the cheese factory in- Speaker: That was just milk that they took there I think. ... That ah the cream, the ah cream man as we call him came along with a smaller truck and he picked up all the cream cans and took them to Almonte, I think. ... Ah there was a big dairy in there.

Interviewer: Esther, can you tell us what happened to the milk? After you milked it? Speaker: Ah, separate it. You use- ah, we had to s-- we had to separate it- separated the cream from the milk and you- you p-- put the cream in the cream can with the- and it was sent every- about twice a week, I think it went. Yeah. So different back then it is now. Yeah.

Interviewer: So you actually had storage for your milk? Speaker: Pretty good. Yeah, just a big drum with a- Speaker 2: It was a big drum at the well. Speaker: Eight- eight gallon cream cans in it and- ... And like you w-- had to pump water in a couple times a day to keep it cool until the truck showed up and-

Well, usually when the cream come out of the whole milk you sold the cream. Ah and you kept it in a cream can in the basement until ah- ... They came and picked it up.