24 AMERICAN DAIRYING. 



to establish or fix the habit of milking as long 

 as desirable. If they are allowed to go dry too 

 early in their first year of milking they are 

 more likely to do the same the succeeding year, 

 and the habit is soon fixed. They should be 

 milked to within two months or less of the time 

 of dropping their calves. This is the kind of 

 work that has developed and made it practica- 

 ble to secure the large yields of butter from 

 cows that we now so frequently obtain. 



Do not force a cow dry. If she persists in 

 milking the whole time let her have her way 

 about it. Drying off a persistent milker re- 

 quires more care than the average milker will 

 give to it. I have had such cows forced dry 

 and when fresh again found a part of the udder 

 injured so as to be useless, and I had a three- 

 teated cow as the result. 



Buying cows. As time passes and the Bab- 

 cock test comes into more general use it will 

 become more and more difficult to buy cows 

 that will make a profit, as the farmers, becom- 

 ing acquainted with their cows, will not sell 

 their best ones. This is as it should be, and we 

 should be prepared to meet this gradual change 

 that is sure to come. 



What breed to select for dairy purposes I 

 shall not undertake to tell you, only let it be 

 some one of the special dairy-purpose breeds. 

 Study this subject thoroughly and select the 



