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the day is over, and they can remain abroad with 

 eafe, they may be again turned into the pafture, 

 where they (hould be allowed to range with freedom 

 all night during the mild wcathef of fummer. 



Cows, if abundantly fed, fhould be milked three 

 times a day during the whole of the fummer fca- 

 fonj"*^ in the morning early, at noon, and in the 

 evening, juft before night-fall. In the choice of 

 perfons for milking the cows, great caution fhould 

 be employed; for if that operation be not carefully 

 and properly performed, not only the quantity of 

 the produce of the dairy will be greatly diminifhed, 

 but its quality alfo will be very much debafed -, for 

 if all the milk be not thoroughly drawn from a cow 

 when fhe is milked, that portion of milk which is 

 left in the udder feems to be gradually abforbed 

 into the fyftem, and nature generates no more than 

 to fupply the wafte of what has been taken away. 



• If cows be milked only tw'ice in the day [24 hours] while they, 

 have abundance of fucculent food, they will yield a much fmallcr quan- 

 tity of milk in the fame time than if they be milked three times. Some 

 attentive obfervers I have met with think a cow in thcfe circumftances 

 will give nearly as much milk at eacb time, if milked three times, as 

 if Ihe were milked only twice. This fa<St, however, has not,, that I 

 know of, beenrafcertained by experiment. There can be no doubt but 

 they give more, how much is not afcertained; nor whether it would 

 be advantageous in any cafe to milk them four times, or oftener ; or 

 wh2it effedl frequent milking produces on the qualitj of the milk. 



