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milkshed

American  
[milk-shed] / ˈmɪlkˌʃɛd /

noun

  1. a region producing milk for a specific community.

    the St. Louis milkshed.


Etymology

Origin of milkshed

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

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This month, through the Federal-State Milk Marketing Agency which controls producer prices in the milkshed, Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard upped the price of fluid milk* to $2.65 per cwt.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three years ago a new character appeared in the milkshed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like Alexandria and Falls Church, the county's other major shipping centers, Herndon served what was known as a "milkshed" area, that is a community whose milk could be transported to that locality without spoiling.

From Frying Pan Farm by Pryor, Elizabeth Brown

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