The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-22
REGULARITY IN MILKING.
A Valuable Suggestion for Easy-Goinin,
Dairymen.


DAirymen.
Regularity is great thing in tho
dairy. in fact it may be classed as
positive essential of success. Nature in
nil of her workings is automatically
regular and she seldom fails in her cal
culations. You may not believe it. but
it is nevertheless fact, that regularity
in milking. with cows on average ra-
tions, will cause them to produce bet
ter flow than If they had heavy feed
and were MIXED irregularly. 1t takes
no longer to milk at one time than at
another, and if you save feed and gain
milk by doing this important chore on
the tick of the clock. it certainly pays.
1t is gross irregularity for mixer
to jump up and fire stool at an inof-
fensive boss because she innocently
slaps his face with her tail. Such a
savage attack will make gentle cow
ugly, and injurc her usefulness as .
mixer. Docile cows are generally
valuable ones. and docility is fos-
tered by urbane human treatment.
Some Of the most profitable mich ami
mails that we ever saw were SO gentle
that they would turn and lick the men
who were milking them, not being
Sanctioned Quiet, rest and peace per-
vaded the atmosphere surrounding these
creatures. and from their human keep
ers they received nothing but the gen.
tlest treatment. As cheesc-maker
we have had ample opportunity to no
tice the worth of regular milking by
dairymen, and to compare it with the
erratic methods OF their brother far
Mr.. A., the man of method, milks, say
at six o'clock in the morning and at six
in the evening: his daily mess of milk
does not vary in weight at the factory
only through the tendency of the sea-
son or the state of the feed.
On the other hand, Mr.. b., who does
his work according to convenience,
often finds it necessary to milk his cows
at 5 o'clock a. m, and if he is rushed
with work to delay the operation again
till or p. IN. His nights milking will
show up wonderfully large, and his
mornings milking correspondingly
small, and when he gets around to COM
paratively regular milking again the
next day, the aggregate yield will be
slightly reduced. We have stood at the
scales where we could test these mat
tiers and know whereof we speak. The
lover Of careless work may say: We'll,
if it only slightly reduced the aggre-
gate yield the accommodation gained
by letting the milking 60 bal
anced the loss in yield" The fact is,
however. the reduction is apt to stay
right there unless extra feeding is done,
and when the dairyman gets careless and
irregular again about this chore, another
permanent reduction" takes place.
We also know another thing about
the quadty of milk drawn from the ud-
der at irregular periods. To allow
milk to stand in a cows udder several
hours longer than the normal time,
does the fluid an irreparable injury;
lessons its keeping quality, and in
many cases renders it positively un-
wholesome for human food. Thus,
while you convenience yourself for the
moment by ''letting the milking CO."
you lose tenfold more than You have
gained both in yield and quality. Easy
going dairymen please think on these
things and investigate for yourselves.
/ Geo. f. Newell, in Prairie Farmer.