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From: Theo Homan <theohoman at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2008.01.24 (04) [E]

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Traditions
[...]
> By the way, I keep wondering why in Old English and
> Old German May is
> referred to by "three milks":[...]

> Might it be because three types of farm animals have
> had their young by
> then? [..]

Or: might it be that in May the cows gave three times
more milk than in winter?

Btw: When the cows came out in the green again after
the winter, the butter that had been pale-white during
the winter, all of a sudden became yellow. The farmers
thought it was because of all those little yellow
flowers the cows were eating now in the meadows, and
they named these flowers: boterbloemen / buttercups.
[Well, you know of course it is because of the
carotene in the grass.]

vr.gr.
Theo Homan

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From: heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk <heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2008.01.24 (04) [E]

>From Heather Rendall

Ron wrote
Subject: Traditions

Thanks bunches, Theo.

By the way, I keep wondering why in Old English and Old German May is
referred to by "three milks":

*Because grass was so lush that cows had to be milked 3 times a day rather
than the usual twice! *

*I think it may also have something to do with the quality of the 'new'
grass that it stimulated more milk than usual.*

*Maybe a farmer on the list can confirm.*

*best wishes*

*Heather*

*feeling huge relief after a 2nd day without rain and having managed to have
a huge bonfire which got rid of all the winter's weeding & pruning and
Christmas decorations + tree plus an old chicken house. Wheee! Cathartic !*

*
*

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