Traditionally, milk was collected by hand and transported to a local co-operative milk collection centre where it was added to milk from other farms and cooled in a large refrigerated tank.
Mr. Buecher said he was worried that data now being collected by hand were not being compared to baseline.
Though many kinds of mushroom can be cultivated, the wild mushrooms we prize the most, like chanterelles, morels and porcini, must be collected by hand.
Chinook Engineering is in the process of connecting the microphones to a wireless network so that the data, now collected by hand, can be transmitted to computers and analyzed automatically.
(Those data, she points out, were painstakingly collected, by hand, by generations of zoologists on field trips a retort to the question of why scientists should spend taxpayers' money investigating the reproductive history of some obscure animal or other).
So Scandinavia is rising by around a metre a century; Loch Lomond in Scotland is rising by around 1mm a year; and London is sinking by about the same amount.Until 13 years ago, all the available data on sea levels were collected by hand from ancient tide-gauges.
Acorns were collected by hand in October 2011 from at least ten wild trees in each zone.
Back in Ishiko, Michio Uozumi shows me box after box of musty leaves and other forest litter, painstakingly collected by hand from nearby woods.
They examined the hydrogenosome of a single-cell organism called Nyctotherus ovalis, which they painstakingly collected by hand from dissected roaches.
Much produce is collected by hand – mushrooms from the forest, samphire foraged from the coastline – and ingredients are often served raw or just-cooked to preserve maximum flavour.
On each occasion, 20 subtidal mussels per site were randomly collected by hand, by scuba divers, during low tide at 1 m depth.
