milking-time

Is there not milking-time, when you are going to bed, or kiln-hole, to whistle off these secrets, but you must be tittle-tattling before all our guests?

The Winter’s Tale 2004

Snowed up at Sellanraa in the storm of the day before, and then on again to Maaneland; not a soul on the place; fed the cattle, stood in the doorway listening, milked the cows at milking-time, listening again; what could it be? ...

The Growth of the Soil 2003

That evening Barbro seems not to care for her food, but goes about, all the same, busy with this and that — goes to the cowshed at milking-time, only stepping a thought more carefully over the door-sill.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

If given at milking-time, the cows will generally give down their milk more readily.

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Robert Jennings

One of them, the oldest of all, had given milk for him when he was a baby, and he never forgot to carry her a handful of salt at milking-time.

The Book of Stories for the Story-teller Fanny E. Coe

She is a good cow, and always knows when it's milking-time.

Harper's Young People, November 4, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

She never would go with the other cows at milking-time.

Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

To induce quiet and persuade the animal to give down her milk freely, it is better that she should be fed at milking-time with cut feed, or roots, placed within her easy reach.

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Robert Jennings

Up the lane came the cow-boy, alternately whistling, singing, and cracking his whip, until at length the drove of sweet-breathed cows stood lowing at the bars, which, at milking-time, would be let down for them to pass each to her own stall.

Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers

Mrs. Stimpcett heard of it soon after milking-time; but this will be spoken of farther on in the story.

Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various