138 PROFITABLE DAIRYING 



WASTE IN MILKING 



The hired man is not likely to stop to compute 

 the loss incurred by leaving a half-pint in the udder 

 at each milking. The last half-pint is three times 

 as rich in butter fat as the average of the whole 

 milking. Figuring on this basis, there would be a 

 loss equivalent to 900 pounds of milk in 300 days; 

 at one dollar per hundred, this means a loss of $9 

 a year per cow. In a herd of fifteen cows, this would 

 mean a loss of $135 nearly the wages of the man. 

 But the loss of milk and butter fat is not the only 

 one. Under such treatment the flow of the cow will 

 decrease. The man who has charge of the dairy 

 should see to it that every milker milks his cows 

 clean. It is from these apparently small matters 

 that the gain or loss in a dairy comes. 



FEEDING THE DAIRY COW 



Enough has been said on cow feeding to give a 

 general idea of this subject. The cow cannot be ex- 

 pected to furnish all the brains needed to run this 

 branch of the dairy. No more hay or straw should 

 be fed than the cow will eat at a meal. When she 

 stops eating, her manger must be cleaned out and 

 allowed to remain clean until the next time for feed- 

 ing. She will soon adapt herself to this order of 

 things, and when done eating will lie down. She 

 will not get up every time the attendant comes into 

 the stable as if she expected another feeding. She 

 is a creature of habit. Upon the attendant depends 

 the regularity of those habits. The more regular they 

 are the better work she will do in the dairy. 



