A sign in a series of signs on buildings from the beginning of the Yavneh Group
The place was photographed on the same day by the same photographer
Click for a larger image Translation of the text on the sign:
The old milking parlor A dairy farm and a branch for raising calves were established in Kibbutz Rodges (on the outskirts of Pelach Tikva) in the early 1930s. In those days a kibbutz could not be established without a barn. Some members underwent training in the barns of veteran kibbutzim, mainly throughout the Jezreel Valley.
With the settlement of Yavne, the dairy industry expanded. Milking was still in the historical method, manual milking, while the dairyman moved with the bucket and stool from cow to cow. During the War of Independence, when the siege of Gush Etzion was tightened, some of the cows from the Etzion barn were moved to Yavne. In the midst of the battles in the Yavneh bombings from the air, the barn area was damaged.
Only in 1957 was a modern milking parlor established with room for three cows. It was later enlarged to twelve dairy cows. The herd then numbered 200 cows. The milking parlor was established by the local construction group and all the metal work was done in a locksmith shop under the management of Willy (Yitzhak) Gutman (Bartov).
The milk for the kitchen was transported by the carter Sasson Aziz in large metal jugs, on a cart hitched to a "first" mule. Among the veteran cowboys we can remember: Ernest (Eliezer) Gutman (Bartov), Yesha (Issachar) Stern (Kochba), Werner (Menachem) Baum (Alon, Banya Nachliel and others).
[Photos:
The Milking parlor and the Waiting Yard (1958)
Sasson Aziz (Hanukkah brother) transports milk in jugs for kitchen consumption, photographed by: Shimon Tidhar (1963)]
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