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Dairy farmers drop off milk at the McDermott Company’s receiving center in Canton

Dairy farmers drop off milk at the McDermott Company’s receiving center in Canton

Pictured is the McDermott Company’s milk can receiving station, and a row of farmers and their milk wagons dropping off their milk in five gallon milk cans. They unloaded full cans on the right, and picked up empty cans to bring home on the other side. Circa 1910. Canton, NY.

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