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milkshed†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a milk-producing region, the produce from which comes to a specific market.
Quotations
1950
. . . every inch of fertile alluvial soil is under cultivation . . . and thickly inhabited by dairy cattle . . . The estuary . . . supports the milkshed of Vancouver.
1958
The Winnipeg District Milk Producers Co-operative Association does not figure in the report since it is essentially a service type organization and does the bargaining for approximately a thousand in the Winnipeg milk shed.