Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-02-13
INTERESTING DAIRY TALK.
TEN MINUTES ON THE nILKING Stool. ."
A Paper Read by DR.. Porter at the Farmers In
stitute Some Good Advice to Dairymen and all
Others Interested In Good MILK and Butter Milk
Fever and Its Treatment

reFei anu itS treatment
A few words regarding bitches. plat.
forms, etc. Have the cows stand on
platforms not too long for them. II
you use staar hions the platform from
stanchion odrnp should be feer = inch
es TOR an ordinary sizrd COW. If mrch
h1ngrr, the COW gets badly soiled
| P,attormS may be OF cement covered
With boat DIS, or of earth in front and
! plank behind, or what is all right, of
earth tramped hard and covered with
an inch of cement and boards on top of
that Hav- the ditch 2 -eet wide and
or 10 inches deep. Have the side of
the ditch nearer the cows 9 inches high
er than the other side and then the
liquid will run away from the cows and
be less likely to soil their tails when they
are lying down besides, the heavy weight
OF a row of cows will cause the platform
side of the ditch 10 settle some. The
ditch should be made of a-inch nine
plank OF best quality free from knots
and sap and the plank should be match
ed and grooved and white lead be used
In the joints. 1t should be laid in ce-
ment on well tamped broken stone.
Experience teaches me that cement
does not endure the hoe and the wear
OF the cattle's hoofs, and the ditch plank
In the rear of the platform becomes
crowded back even if well secured in
place. Have a 5-foot walk behind the
ditch.
A manure carrier is a great labor
saver. Mine is 81 feet long, with fiaring
sides, hangs on pivot at each end and
runs on 2 by 4-inch oak track. and an
old hay carrier truck furnishes the pro-
peiling part 1t holds the manure of
or eight cows for day and saves the
man much suffering on cold dav. We
bed the bitches little to keep the cows
| tails dry. A cows wet tail slammed
across the mixers face does not tend TO
awaken the religious elements in an
ordinary mans make mp; henca we bed
the bitches little. By using n little
care TO mix the liquid with the solid ex-
crement We have no extra amount of
| liquid to scoop out. The manure goes
| out every day on 20 the clover field. ex-
cept on Sundays. We have kind of
drag or stone boat made by mailing d
foot plank TO oak runners 10 feet long
1t has side boards and tongue and Il
very handy
Before milking we proceed To wash
/
wet cloth, warm water having been
brought from the houaa We miik with
dry hands and try toaql amber that the
mlik In our pals is huIlan food and il
20 oe guarded from every impurity pos.
sole. we try TO keep the cows clean
we sweep their TANKS and back of their
udders when necessary, and curry them
frequently The milker should be clean
4 N q Ync etYas ak
and should wash and dry his hands Just
before milk'ng. We should milk quiet
", quickly, cleanly and thoroughly
, COWS do not like unnecessary noise ol
delay VI Is better to milk the first few
streams nom each teat into the gutter
This milk IL watery and If it be savet
separately u will not keep nearly a
long as that MIXED afterwards Nevei
the milk.
! Our Wisconsin law forbids sale Of mil
or ITS products from cows within Is day
before calving or 9 days afterward
MIX Tor the cheese factory or skimmin,
. station or for sale OF use anywhere shouli
be aerated, or aired. thoroughly In
pure atmosphere One reason why
sell milk that keeps longer and is FIRE,
from tine convey" manurial odor s.
common TO much milk, is that run tn
, warm milk over a Champion aerato
and cooler which in warm weather il
illled with ice. Another reason is tina
, try 10 nave the minimum amour
OF hltf enter the milk pals You can
not strain dung out of milk Only th
separator will take that out What W
, want TO do is to keep it ont of the milk
; They tell us that the people of Berlin
Germany, in their milk supply. yearl
drink 800, 900 pounds Of COW dung O
/, enough every day to fertilize a quartz
= acre of land. II is necessary to aerat
milk even in winter In December, last
poured 81 quarts Of warm, unaerate
milk into can and set it in freezin
: atmosphere Ii did not sour, but ws
unfit for use. The animal odor OF th
J. milk was driven to the center of tn
!, mass of milk and injured it's qualit
! materially.
y Milk fever is disease that in doze
II years has cost me four or FIVE cow
u Gov. Hoard advocated not milking til
q COW dry during the first week aftt
Il calving Following the most approve
and latest method of treatment of mil
fever we are very careful TO not onl
milk the cow thoroughly and fr
/, quently after calving, but TO keep h,
o MIXED out before the calf is born. I'll
0 theory is that milk fever is poisonin
g Of the animal due to the absorption frol
, the udder Of abnormal substances pr
q duced there under certain conditions
e The treatment is, besides frequent mill
:. ing, every hour or so, the injection {
@ one half pint of one percent. solution {
iodide of potash into each teat which
allowed TO remain twenty minutes an
then il MIXED out Dr. Leonard Pea
e son. state veterinarian of Pennsylvania
o says in regard to treatment of milk fevel
AS state veterinarian | have aske
:, many veterinarians TO cooperate Wit
J, me in trying this new treatment. r,
,, ports on more than 100 cases show abot
d 75 per cent Of recoveries DIR. Schwart
It koff has collected reports ON large seri,
& Of cases treated in this country by tn
{. new method and they show 73 percer
q of recoveriss In Denmark and Ge
10 many the treatment is used more tina
er here and the recoveries amount to
per cent, according TO the last publisht
statistics covering several hundred case
Enough has been done to show that tn
G treatment gives much better resr.l
ii than have ever been obtained before.
y DR.. PORTER.