New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-07-22
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD
WORDS OF ADVICE FOR THE
FARMER.
About Misunderstanding Value of
Whey--Thoughts About Sheep
ssf Salt the CoWs--Result Of -
Rough Treatment.
About Milking,


The first thing in milking is to see
that the udder is clean. Wipe the
udders OF all the COWS to be MIXED
with a flannel cloth wrung out in luke
warm water and dry them Immediate
ly. The mixer should then wash and
dry his hands and see that there are
no long or broken nails. Commence
now to stroke gently the teats and
udder few seconds, to excite the flow
OF milk and to relax the muscles which
close the mouth OF the teats. Now
grasp the two furthest off teats in such
way that the little finger is just out
OF reach OF the milk as it ISSUES from
the teat. For it is absolutely neces-
sary that the hands are kept dry from
start to finish. The milk cannot be
kept perfectly clean when the hands
are wet, no matter how carefully both
udder and hands have been washed
and dried; and milk, as all know,
readily absorbs any dirt Or
dirty smell and imparts it to but
ter or cheese. But yet weightier
consideration is that diseases of the
teats and udder, especially sore and
cracked teats, are to a. very large de-
gree attributable to nothing else than
wet milking, while the danger of infec-
ton being conveyed from one animal
to another is Increased enormously.
Taking care, therefore, to keep the lit
tie finger away from the milk, pro-
coed to drive the milk out Of the teat
by steadily increasing pressure (re-
member not by pulling), commencing
the pressure with the thumb and first
finger and following rapidly with Sec
ond, third and fourth fingers. Now
loosen your grasp and raise the hand
into the udder, as it were, giving a gen.
tie shove or blow so as to bring the
milk down into the lower portion of
the udder. Then repeat the squeeze,
but take care never to stretch the
teat the least bit beyond it's natural
length, or serious internal ruptures
mig hit result; besides, this stretching
the teats makes milking very un-
pleasant to the COW. Even at the end,
never resort to stripping that
is, sliding two or three fin
fingers down the teat, which
is kept fabricated with milk, but
continue squeezing the milk out
till no more will come, and even then
go on for a few seconds to encourage
the flow OF blood to the udder; then
do the same to the two near teats.
The quick, soft push into the lower
portion OF the udder is exactly what
a calf does when suction no longer
brings it any milk. It opens it's mouth
slightly so as to take in a larger por-
ton of the udder, and gives it gentle
poke with it's nose, whereupon it re-
sumes sucking.
Too rapid and violent milking is
not enjoyable to the the COW and will
cause her to "hold up" her milk, and
slow milking makes her wearied.
Conversation among the mixers
should most strictly be forbidden.
The position of the mixer is often
such that he cannot see whether all
the milk goes into the pail or not, and
he must consequently trust to his
hearing. And an interesting converse
ton is not conducive to attentive
listening to the sound of the milk pail.
Feeding Value of Whey.
Four trials we're conducted at the
Wisconsin experiment station during
the fall of 189O-91, for the purpose Of
ascertaining the value OF sweet whey
for pig feeding. The results Of these
trials show:
First-We are not successful in
maintaining pigs on whey alone.
Second-Pigs fed on corn meal and
shorts with water required 552 pounds
@E %ho y4,,,, de- ~
grain.
Third-When whey was added to
| the corn meal and shorts mixture, it
produced a marked saving in the
amount OF grain required for good
grain. This was true for mixtures
varying from two pounds of whey to
one of grain, up to ten pounds of
whey to one of grain.
Fourth-It was found when using
/ whey as partial substitute for grain,
that 100 pounds of whey effected a
saving of 100 pounds OF the corn meal
and shorts mixture.
Fifth-Using these figures, if corn
meal and shorts are valued at $l2
per ton, then whey is worth eight cents
per hundred pounds; at SIS per ton
/ for the corn meal and shorts, whey
would be worth ten cents per hundred
weight.
Sixth-shorts, pea meal and oil
meal, OF like foods, should be mixed
with whey for growing animals: Some
corn may be fed at all times, the pro
portion increasing as the animal ap-
!. proaches maturity Ohio Farmer.
Salt the Cows.
It is hardly necessary to tell people
who handle stock that they should
be sailed regularly. It seems to be as
necessary as food itself, Judging from
the way they will beg forit. Not only
is it relished, but observation and
experienced teach thatsalt is necessary
j to the best health Of a COW. Prof
!: Robinson, OF the Guelph experiments
station, Ontario, says, after exper.
imenting along that line, that :.to
1 deny cows salt for even one week
( l I, 80, 80