The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-04-04
Time for Milking Cows.

The question, How often shall COWS be
MIXED, daily r. has been agitated from time
to time, from the fact that-when calves are
running with their dams, the times of milk
ing are more frequent than under tha COM
mon, artificial system. which Is twice a day,
ordinarily, while il may be fouror FIVE times
day when the cows are sucked by their
progeny, and oftener, even, when there is.a
sh0rtness OF supply, as in poor mixers
Cows. it is said, by an English writer, in
a lnxuriant pastare, where they can soon
ill their bellies, invariably feed four times
day, first early in the morning, again ha-
fore noon IN the afternoon, and late m tho
evening, and the calves suck on these seye-
raj occasions, on the cows rising from rnmi-
nation, TO replenish their exhausted stom,
achs. This order viii vary in less lax uFieps
pastures.
The writer referred to cises The following
in regard to artificial management Ist
when cows and calves are separated and
brought together morning and evening; ID,
when separated as above and brought to-
gethsE morning, noon and eysninE, Sd, when
COWS are MIXED twice by flad, morning. afIa
evening; 4th, when mil6ed three timesN
day, morning, noon aud evening, 5th, four
times day, milking seven honrs between
the night ausF morning milking, or a listio :
more, and about FIVE hours and half be-
milking our author says be has bad varied
experience. The writer wished It borne III
mind tbat bis observation was conined 10
COWS highly fed, bis query being whether
cows thus treated are more liable 10 grow
fat and dry mp, when miked only twles,
than If MIXED three times day2 Accord
ing to his experienee, there are fourteen
hours between evening and morning with
but two miikiRgs, and ten between morning
and evening; in enmmer, thirteen ead
eleven hours between milkings.
In further discussing this subject, he says,
il should be borne in mind, that the manu-
featuring of meat, as it we're, and ef milk
are continuously going on IN tsc healthy
COW, so that it does not require mueh force
to turn the balance either way especially
when there is "a tendency to the secretion Of
fat; in such cases it must be adgerse to the
secretion Of milk. Hence. with healtbful
COWS, with proper and high feed, three milk
ines q daY are better than two, provided
milk is desired, in Its largest qeantity
The present system of milkng but twice
a day took its rise when cows were less
highly fed than niDw, and gave much less
milk per day; hence, its ipappHgability 70
deep mixers Of the present day. -Four times
a day IS better, eyens tban three, @ben cove
are kept on luxuslaht feed, as intimeted
above, when milsing shoqid e0frespopst Hith
the peft"uS ot htaitfy fdi1is sistsiotis 4fs3eu-
ton, secretion Of milk and rest What OBJ
lection can be raised with regard b dairies
kept for their milk, called IN England,
" Commercial Dairies, to milking three, or
even four times day, when cows are kept
and fed especially for their milk, whether
for the supply Of the milk Iasrket, or for
making butter and cheese, either Or both p
the COW in such cases being regarded as a
milk making machine, whose use IS to con-
vert forage into good milk.-Bost9a Cislt5-
Uat0r