120 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



If the production of milk in winter is the object, I should 

 say increase the quantity, of shorts, and add meal, — about 

 two quarts of the former and one of the latter to each cow. 



They will do much better on this than when fed on the 

 best of hay alone. Milking is also very important. Many a 

 good cow is spoiled by poor milkers. The first requisite is 

 regularity of time. Another important thing is to let each 

 cow have, so far as possible, the same milker from day to 

 day. Be kind and gentle to your cows alivays ; allow no 

 boisterous talking in the stable, and no kicking or pounding 

 of cows in any case. When milking, do it as completely as 

 possible ; for, by leaving a little every time, cows will soon 

 decrease their milk. A heifer may be spoiled, or at least so 

 injured that she will never after give as much milk as though 

 she had been properly milked the first year. Much more 

 might be said about cows and their management ; but I will 

 leave the subject for those of larger experience and greater 

 ability than your humble servant. 



George P. Chapin-, Chairman. 



