The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-21

various agricultural experiment STA
tions through the world are taking
up whole lot of common things, the
commonest things on the farm, and
telling the farmers that there is good
deal connected with them that they
1.-THE farmers) do not know. They have
been digging down around the roots
of our clover and examining the little
knots on these roots through micro
scope and finding things that our
fathers never dreamed of: actually
proving TO US that by means Of the lit
tie jiggers that we can not see but that
live in these roots, clover can draw
upon the winds of heaven for nitrogen
worth fifteen cents a pound and not
charge us cent.
They have been nosing. around our
oats fields and telling US, and actually
making us believe it, that we have
been losing about sixteen per cent of
our crop and more than half of our
profits in growing oats because of the
smut, and then they tell us how we
can cure it and be happy.
They are telling us that we never
saw an ear of corn before. They adj
NIT that we have looked at some but
they are telling US so many new things
about it that they are actually con.
vincing us that we never saw it-mak
ing us actually believe this very thing
If there is anything that the farmer
knows about, or thinks he knows about,
it is milking. and yet they have told
us things about milking that would
have made our grandmothers stare.
They have knocked the opinion out Of
our heads that we can increase the
butter fat in milk by feeding bran or
slop. They have shown US how to
measure its value. We admit all this,
but now when it comes to the point Of
telling US that we have to milk twice
TIC get all the good out of the COW, it
makes us stare. That is just what they
are doing. If we do not believe it now,
they will MAKE US believe that as they
have a good many other things. Some
scientific noser after new things liv-
| ing over in Denmark, named Hege-
lund, veterinarian in the Dadelund
Dairy School, has found out that the
first time we milk we get milk and
then we milk again after that and
get cream, or nearly so. 1t is not
enough to milk quietly. carefully,
quickly, and then strip, but having
done this we must manipulate the I'D
der in way that he describes and
then get more milk and so much richer
that it may we'll be called cream.
After we have got all we can, he
tells us that we must take the right
quarters of the udder and press them
against each other with the lefs hand
on the hind quarter and the right hand
in front of the fore quarter, the thumbs
being placed on the outside of the I'D
der and the four fingers in the division
between the two halves. We must then
press the two hands toward each other
at the same time lifting the udder up
toward the body of the COW. We must
do this three times and then milk, then
do it again and do some more milking;
then treat the left quarters in the same
way. This is the first manipulation.
In the second manipulation we press
| the glands together from the sides.
The fore quarters are MIXED each by
itself by placing one hand, with fingers
spread, on the outside of the quarter
and the other hand In the division be.
tween the right and left fore quarters:
the hands are pressed against each
other and the teatthen milked. When
no more milk is obtained by this manip
ulation, the hind quarters are MIXED
by placing hand on the outside Of
each quarter, likewise with finger.
spread and turned upward, but with
the thumb just in front of the hind
quarter. The hands are lifted and
grasp into the gland from behind and
from the sides, after which they are
: lowered to draw the milk Keep al
this until you can not get any more.
Then there is third manipulation
The fore teats are grasped with partly
closed hands and lifted with push
toward the body of the COW, both a
the same time, by which methods the
glands are pressed between the hand
and the body: the milk is drawn afte,
each three pushes. Then milk the
hind teats in the same way.
The Wisconsin Experiment Station
has carried on an elaborate experiment
to test the value of this new kink il
milking cows. We have not space tt
describe the experiments in detail, bu
content ourselves with summary
which our readers who are milking
COWS would do well to read carefully
as follows: