Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-04-21

MILKISG.-A writer in the Maine Farmer
gives, from long experience, number of rules
for milking. most of which are very good, as
pare your nails short-st on stool-mk fast
never scoid cow-never get out Of PATIENCE e
the following are Objectionable wet tho teats
with the first stream of mlk"--and .never strike
IA COW for running or kicking" Milk, applied
to the teats to soften them, dries, and forms
glossy varnsh, which tends to cause cracking
or chapping of these parts. Cold water is much
better, becoming quite dry by the time the milk
| ing is finished and leaving the tcats clean and
soft. Touching the striking ola cow--thc rule
applies we'll to ninety-nme cases in hundred
as now pracised--but judcous punishment
will cure a COW amazingly quick. speak from
long experience. II a COW kicks much place a
switch under the left arm, the pail in the LETT
/ hand, and it, while milking, she kicks, let it be
/ followed invariably by single blow. Never
strike but once at a time, even if she Kicks So
hard as TO break your leg--and never omit it. ii
she hits nothing, Soothe her at all other times,
In this way, she soon finds what the whip means
and shapes her conduct accordingly.
A small mess of pleasant food at the time will
serve to do away any disagrceable impression
in connection with milking. By never striking
but once she has not time to get mad, and 1t
is all the more terrific, for who cares for Il blow
while stimulated by fury
have found some " hard cases to deal with
but completely cured them all, with single eX'
ception There was one old COW, so terrific in
the blows she dealt ont, that none dared approach
her with a pail till her legs had been strongly
secured, which was done with great difficulty
She never kicked after had given her the sec
ond milking, in the way have just stated, but
became perfectly mild, quiet and gentle, having
doubtless been made vicious by bad manage
ment. The case which could not cure was {
large, uncommonly knowing COW, who was wise
enough never to kick when ! MIXED her, conse
qucnlly | could not apply the remedy, but wa
savage enough to other mixers. With rcgar'
; to cows running about, once knew COW quit
troublesome in this particular usually upsetlins
, a pail of milk before commencing race.
The boys chased her round the pasture til
f they corncred her. and then dashed her vigorous
". As a consequence, she took care not to b
: cornered next tmc and hence became intracta
! bic in the extreme. Tocure her she was place
g in a moderate-sizcd yard, and driven gently int
, a corner. When she ran the whip was applied
e but with only one blow at a time, till she regain
G ed the old corner, where every means was use
: to quiet her. In this way she found an ntimai
. connection between whipping and running, an
y that comfort consisted in sticking to her post
;, On the third day she was handed over to the car
r of the hired man, and ever after was quiet COW
: 1t is almost needless to add that this mode {
: treatment requires perfect calmness, patienc
= and selt-possession. When you feel passion c
g fear, the animal soon discovers it, and she fee
). no longer the influence of superior being
II Therefore those who cannot carry out the sy
IS TEN properly had better not try it.