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Cans are still around used by the Amish.  I hauled cans, in a pick-up truck, before school,  to the local creamery my senior year in high school.  That summer we switched to the bulk tank on the farm and a different milk company.  Was still milking cows my entire college years.  Early morning start.   Cows were sold 1990, my fathers health a big part of the sale.

10 gallon cans, filled, easily over 100 lbs.  They were chilled in the milk house using an ice bath refrigerated cooler. The cans were semi-submerged in the water.   If you shipped 5 or 6 cans of milk a day, there was double that number of can, each with a shipping number on both the lid and the can.  Getting full cans out of the cooler was a challenge for a very young man.  Cans were galvanized steel with a friction fit lid, missing in this picture.  Eventually there was discussion about the solder/lead used in the assembly of the cans.   Bulk tank and all the milking equipment was stainless steel.  There were stainless steel cans, rare today, IMO.    My sweetheart painted this can.