milkshed

[ milk-shed ]

noun

1. a region producing milk for a specific community:

   the St. Louis milkshed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of milkshed¹

1925–30, Americanism; milk + shed ², on the model of watershed

Example Sentences

In Veracruz, Mexico, after retailers were found to be selling 35,000 liters of milk a day � 10,000 more than they get from all the cows in the Veracruz milkshed � a Dairymen's Association spokesman stated: "We don't want to accuse anyone of watering the milk, but we think the situation merits investigation."

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The Dairymen's League Co-operative Association, an organization representing some 27,000 of the 44,000 milk producers in the six-state New York milkshed, made no bones about having done the job.

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The plea that only local milkshed milk is sanitary had become an outright racket, and the racketeers are afraid that after the war it will be hard to get the old milkshed barriers raised again.

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Best news about milk was that the shortage was breaking down the milkshed barriers which local dairy lobbies had fostered for years to keep out competition from other sections.

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In Vermont, Pennsylvania, New York, three of the six States which make up New York City's giant milkshed, striking farmers picketed dairy plants and highways, dumped milk in the roads, poured kerosene on trucks, fired at State troopers.

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