MILKING. 69 



Cows need special care. There is no farm 

 animal that needs more care than the cow. It 

 will not answer to give her the same treatment 

 that you do a fat steer. She is much more sen- 

 sitive to cold, as she has not (if she is a dairy 

 cow) an inch or two of fat all over her body to 

 protect her vitals from the cold. The steer 

 will be comfortable in a well-bedded dry shed 

 in cold weather, when the cow would suffer and 

 her flow of milk decrease. It does me good to 

 visit a herd of cows and see the herdsman go 

 among them with a kind word and the cows 

 approach him as though they had an affection 

 for him. On the other hand when I see a herds- 

 man go among the cows with a loud voice and 

 every cow begins to get away from him I think 

 that man is out of place, and he should be put 

 to some work that he is fitted to do if it can 

 be discovered what that is. 



Difference in milkers. There is a great 

 difference in milkers. This many dairymen 

 have learned and many more have not, judg- 

 ing from the way they act. I have had some 

 milkers that would get enough more from 

 fifteen cows in one year than other milkers I 

 had at the same time to pay their salaries for 

 the year. Perhaps some may not believe this, 

 but it is not guesswork. It is a matter of cal- 

 culation after weighing the milk from the vari- 

 ous milkers' cows periodically for a term of 



