The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-02
Time for. Milking Cows.

The question, 3" How often shall cows be
MIXED, daily?" has been agitated from
time to time, from the fact that when calves
are running with their dams, the times
of milking are more frequent than under
the common, artificial system, which is
twice a day, ordinarily, while it may be
four or five times day when the COWS are
sucked by their progeny, and oftener, even,
when there is q shortness of supply, as In
poor mixers.
Cows it is SAID, by an English writer, in
luxuriant pasture, where they can soon
fill their bellies, invariably feed four times
day, first, early in the morning, again
before noon, in the afternoon, and late In
the evening, and the calves suck on these
several occasions, on the COWS rising from
rumiration, to replenish their exhausted
stomachs. This order will vary in less
luxurious pastures.
The writer referred to gives the follow
ing in regard to artificial management: LIST,
when COWS and calves are separated and
brought together morning and evening i;
I'd, when separated as above and brought
together morning, noon, and evening; Sd,
when COWS are MIXED twice by hand,
morning and evening; 4th, when MIXED
three times a day, morning, noon and
evening; 5th, four times day, making
irg milking, or little more, and about
five hours and half between the others.
OF the first four times of milking, our
author says he has had varied experience.
The writer wished it borne in mind that
his observation was confined to COWS
highly fed, his query being whether COWS
thus treated are more liable to grow tat
and dry up, when MIXED only twice, than
if MIXED three times day? According
to his experience, there are IA hours be-
tween evening and morning with but
two milkings, and 10 between morning
and evening; in summer, IL and IL hours
between milkings.
In further discussing this subject, he
says, it should be borne in mind, that the
manufacturing of meat, as it were, and OF
milk are continuously going on IN the
healthy cow, SO that it does not require
much force to turn the balance either way.
especially when there is a tendency to the
secretion of fat; in such cases II must be
adverse to the secretion of milk. Hence,
with healthful COWS, with proper and high
feed, three milkings day are better than
two, provided milk is desired, in its largest
quantity.
The present system of milking but twice
day took its rise when COWS were less
highly fed than now, and gave much less
m1lK per Gay utNCe, LIS luop plIOoOiiloy w
deep mixers of the present day. -Four
times a day is better, even, than three,
when COWS are kept on luxuriant feed, as
intimated above, when milking should cor
respond with "the periods of healthy
| rumination, digestion, secretion OF milk
| and rest" What objection can be raised
with regard to diaries kept for their milk,
called in England, Commercial Diaries, .
to milking three, or even four times 9 day,
| when cows are kept and fed especially for
their milk, whether for the supply OF the
milk market, or for making butter and
| cheese, either or both ?-the cow in such
cases being regarded as milk making ma
chine, whose use is to convert forage into
good milk.-Bostom CultiUator.