Posted by Prue Eckett on August 13, 2006 at 03:43:28 from 222.152.210.133 user PrueEckett.
In Reply to: Milk can, billy can, butter churn posted by Mike Field on August 13, 2006 at 02:27:13:
In NZ, the larger cans that cream went away from the farm to the butter factory in were called cream churns. Farms that supplied milk had larger churns called milk churns. Then everyone went onto town supply in the late '60's, and the whole milk was kept in tanks and pumped into tanker trucks to be taken to the factory.
Churns to make butter were called butter churns but I never saw any on the farms I went to (1950's onwards) as they bought their butter and milk, when the cows were dry, at the local store.
Of course these were working dairy farms - I'm sure on lifestyle blocks the art of buttermaking is alive and well. Incidentally cream and milk churns now go for astronomical amounts in the antiques market.