Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-12
LEARN TO MILK PROPERLY.

In answer TO query sent the New
York Tribune Farmer as to the cause
and remedy for hard milking, DR.. c. ID.
smeal offers the following suggestions
The cause OF the milk coming so slow
w is a hardening or callousing OF the
duets that allow the milk to come down
INTO the milk cistern at the base of the
feat You WILL likely, when you COM
nance 10 draw the milk from this quar-
FER experience no difficulty In getting
lew streams Of milk Then difficulty
viii begin. as the milk viii not come
down IN the teat as fast as you desire
10 milk II out. / am sorry to tell you
there is no known remedy for this. a
close examination will show you that
there is small, hard lump well up
above the base OF the teat. At this
point are the ducts or openings OF sew
eral tubes which allow the milk to
come down into a cavity at the base OF
the teat. called the milk cistern. When
ever these openings ducts become
swollen, or closed partly, the milk can
not come down. Now as to the cause
of this | will say: Sometimes the bunt-
ing Of a calf will cause it; but n more
common cause Is hard milking. Some
have a habit of milking with the thumb
and forehnger and, when that person Is
one of strong grip in his hands or fin
gers, by the squeezing he gives the
PARTS he Injuries these delicate ducts,
and the result Is they begin to thicken
from Inflammation. The next milking
they are macerated again. and In a few
days or weeks lump Is formed. IT
happens more frequently with cows af-
tas. t,st1l Ia stn w hnY
the COW is dried off before becoming
fresh, than otherwise.
Many q man has reported thus: |
have fine milch COW that MIXED all
right up TO the time | stopped milking
her, but when she dropped her calf |
found that from one or more teats |
cannot get a drop of milk; yet the I'D
der Is full of milk and does not seem
TO be niamed. The cause of this is
that as long as she was daily MIXED
the ducts were kept open; but when
milking stopped there was a healing of
the semi macerated parts and q callous
or lump was formed where the opening
should be. At other times the mem
brane Of the teat has been so injured
that lump will form In the teat;
sometimes well up in 1t, at other times
near the end. In these latter cases a
teat opened can be successfully used;
but when the trouble Is in the ducts
OF the udder theresis no remedy yet
known.
The prevention consists in mixers
learning to milk properly, without
stripping with the thumb and finger |
Know some will ask, How can this be
done with heifer with short teats and
perhaps a caked udder. Well, | will say
that milking can be done more easily
with the whole hand than with the
thumb and fingers, when you have
trained your hand to squeeze the i'd
ger properly, using the thumb and two
nrst fingers to squeeze the udder and
the TWO small fingers and the palm Of
lhe hand to bring the milk from the
teat' Some will say when they read
this 'Bosh With large hand like
NINE no one can milk heifer with the
whole hand To such viii saw,
HOLD on, The writer has a hand like
nls heart very large in fact, larger
tnan nine out Of ten mems hands I'm
we and When spread out 1t covers a
distance of nine and one-half inches
from UP OF thumb to tin OF little fin
ger VIII bet a yellow cat against n
new nat any doubters hand can't COW
81 that distance Yet | never have seen
lne helter with teat so small I could
10y MIX her without stripping. | there
IoFe say that the habit that il running
90 many fine cows can be dispensed
WIN You can milk with the whole
manu- as well as /, II you will only train
your hand TO do It. In short, learn TO
MIN cow properly That is all there
20 ~ H. ana prevent these troubles,