The Imperial press., 1904-09-24

tainrd hat lO. X2 Iyr crut. ut batter iat. The liur tv.Iuirr,i tn obtain this last miIk vas from two Co thrrc minutes, or at tllr rate ui twenty COWS au hour, g" that twenty COWS will yield an increase oi two pounds ui butter tat worth forty cents When it came tn careful strip. ping. done with the whole hand, not W ith the thumb ant finger, the results were alout the same Eithrt way i- worth praciiciug, for it not only in. cr,.a~,.s ihr immediate milk flow, but ii ale, makes the trri,d longer before the necessary irCrrasc GO the milk flow
 The lz-~i COWS naturally rcct'ivc the l--si care and most careful milking, ant hilc Nc caun"t lunk tpr many more ,-,uuds oi butter iat from the iu' diNiduAl CONS. it Is reasonable e. h"pe' tur more c,,ws with the capacity "i thirty pounds uf butter A week. The prric.ting nt the milking machine will tc the dairVmrn's millennium. Net there will always bc physical difficulties tn overcome
 In my own dairy two hciiers may both be equally we'll bred. both have the same care One makes COW giving 50 pounds uf butter ln a year, while the other makes SOO. Now whcr'' is the difference The two principal our~ s--em to be, first. m the trAts, they arc either tno large pr tuo small, ur t"o thick al the top, so there i> difficulty tn in milking clean aud the COW IS never developed in her full capacity. The other cans. for failure i- nervous ness. The frrttlng, easily annoyed COW is never worth as much as ihr placid one. Watch them going into the stable, one COW rJishe- ahead. hlunlers into the wrong stall. while the heavy producing COW walks m quietly, finds Madame Blnnder m her stall. She pauses to see II "A man is around to put out the in- trudcr II she sees no one. she walks into the next vacant stall And goes to eating, while the inssy COW irets be- cause she Is being mixed out uf turn She is decreasing her milk flow all the while by her own p-ryersity, while old placid i. enjoying her iced anal thinking uf how much time she has b,.- fore that milker says Hi, Cowy!' which means to stand still ,o be mllkel
 How much there Is in this nervous ness can be judged by the decrease in milk flow II a herd Is startled in any way. We had heavy wind come up As the COWS were going into the barn one evening. A storage she1 outside oi the COW Yari was unroofed and cnl lap-e,l with terrific crash The morn ing milking had been iorty-tiye ten gal lon cans. That night the milk was thirty four cans nr eleven ten gallon cans shortage. That milk was not se- creted. and was lost, for the next morn ing the milk was still twelve gallons short, so the lo@- was a total of l22 gal Ions of milk, all from the nery"us shock Now this al-p shows the mischief an uu- rnly COW may do in the barn with quiet ones.
 We have found il profitable to have the heliers broken to milk out Of hear ing of ihe COWS, until they are ah-o- lutrly docil.. The man that breaks heii-rs mn-t Le gentle and patient and should only have a string of ten or twelve to handle.
 Milk is not all the value we receive from the dairy herd. In Germany herds of cattle are fattened without though, Of other profits than the manur. for the vineyards. This manure should pay for th. iood~ purchased. We know the heavy crop of grapes We have are due to the heavy irrtiliZing that the vineyards have receiyesl m the past years. When our ncighboT on vine yard less than ours told Us hc had rx- p-nded tl 9I0 for bone and blood meal. we thought of how many COWS this