Wiseman, which is 35pc owned by the founding family, seems to agree - knowing how to spot a milch cow when it sees one.

I meant to take I our milch cow, but with the gardener there I cannot risk it.

Oro, welcome home, I would rather have you than a hundred milch cows:

We were alone except for a fat milch cow tethered among the grasses that grew beside the road.

So were the four precious milch cows and their calves.

Of thirty milch cows only one is left, and she does not give milk enough for us to drink.

Two wagons, fourteen oxen, a horse and a milch cow were simply too much for a woman and a boy to manage.

She went, driving the milch cow ahead into sheltering trees.

The Dutch looked upon us as milch cows.

I'd say he was the proverbial milch cow in a previous existence.