{"id":109,"date":"2014-08-22T19:56:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T19:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2015-04-10T18:47:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T23:47:15","slug":"glass-milk-bottles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"GLASS MILK BOTTLES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/glass-milk-bottle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-107\" src=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/glass-milk-bottle.jpg\" alt=\"glass milk bottle\" width=\"143\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>GLASS MILK BOTTLES.<\/p>\n<p>My parents never gave any negative thought to using child labor.\u00a0 If you were old enough to help, you helped.\u00a0 Life on a dairy farm meant never ending work every day of the week for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Cows were milked twice a day.\u00a0 The milk was strained, cooled and put into 5 gallon cans.\u00a0 It was refrigerated until it was put into long- necked glass milk bottles.\u00a0 This was done once every day after the second milking.\u00a0 The filled bottles were put into metal crates (carriers) which held 12 bottles.\u00a0 A smaller carrier was used to make the individual deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I was old enough, my job was to wash the bottles.\u00a0 I stood on a wooden box in order to reach the brush that cleaned the bottles.\u00a0 The brush was mounted on an electric motor and it rotated.\u00a0 Bottles were put onto the brush as it turned. Then the bottle was manually turned until all areas inside had been brushed and cleaned.<\/p>\n<p>There were three large vats.\u00a0 The first one held hot water and soap.\u00a0 The second vat held water and a strong disinfectant. The third was a clear water rinse.\u00a0 I usually washed 24 bottles at a time.<\/p>\n<p>When the school bus dropped me off after school, I often went to the milk house and counted the number of crates of empty bottles.\u00a0 I could then estimate how long it would take me to finish washing the bottles.<\/p>\n<p>The bottles from the home deliveries had usually been washed by the homemakers.\u00a0 The bottles from the restaurants were another matter.\u00a0 They often were emptied and put back into a crate without being rinsed. \u00a0I left what I called the \u201cdirty\u201d bottles until last as they took more effort to get clean.<\/p>\n<p>I would wash the bottles in the vat and unplug the brush before the rinsing process.\u00a0 After rinsing they were put upside down in the crates to drain.\u00a0 The crates were on rolling dollies.\u00a0 The cement floor was soon wet.\u00a0 (It sloped to a floor drain.)\u00a0 I was frequently admonished to dry my hands well before unplugging the brush.\u00a0 Did I do that?\u00a0 It was too much trouble.\u00a0 I would give the cord a yank unless there was someone else in the milk house.\u00a0 My Dad and brother probably suspected as much.\u00a0 The brushes were changed often.\u00a0 One day I went in and there was not only a new brush, but it was on a new motor which had an on-off switch.\u00a0 That was a little safer and I managed not to electrocute myself.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I mastered bottle washing I\u00a0had begun\u00a0to help with the bottling of the milk.\u00a0 The bottling machine only filled two bottles at a time.\u00a0 There was a rhythm to it.\u00a0 The empty bottles were on the left and filled bottles on the right. Two empty bottles were put up and moved under the spouts to be filled.\u00a0 When they were filled, they were placed under a capper and capped one at a time. \u00a0The old long neck caps went inside a rim on\u00a0a ridge.\u00a0 A lever forced the cap down.\u00a0 The capped bottles were crated and the process began again.\u00a0 I capped two bottles, placed them in a crate, and got two empties ready while two bottles were filling.\u00a0 It was quite a dance for a little girl, but I was pretty good at it.\u00a0 At least, I never got fired.<\/p>\n<p>I washed bottles and worked in the milk house until I entered 7<sup>th<\/sup> grade.\u00a0 At that time a huge automatic bottle washer was moved in.\u00a0 It was a monster.\u00a0 My Dad hired two neighbor boys who not only operated the new machine but did other chores as well.\u00a0 I never used it and never worked in the milk house again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; GLASS MILK BOTTLES. 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