Changing times

Many years ago before milk tankers, chilled vats and rotary cowsheds, NZ farmers (my father-in-law included) milked their cows in small "walk-through" sheds, the milk sometimes going through a separator which then directed cream and milk to separate receptacles.
At Orini, the cans were loaded onto a trailer which was pulled by horse next-door(in our case) to the cheese factory for processing. Years later the factory put a pipeline up the length of our farm to spray the waste whey onto our pasture as a soil conditioner. Many hours were spent subsequently pulling a mole plough through the paddocks to disrupt the rather hard pan that formed at the soil surface.
These shiny cream cans which have been coated in copper are from those earlier days and stand in our foyer...a very long way from any cowshed in which they may have done serious service.