22 BETTER DAIRY FARMING 



42. Milking more than two times a day. — Most farmers 

 milk their cows twice a day. Where the dairyman has a con- 

 siderable number of high producers it will pay him to milk three 

 times a day. The extra milk will give him a good return for the 

 additional labor. The milkings should be eight hours apart, but 

 the actual times of milking can be arranged to suit the farmer's 

 other work. On many farms the hours are 5 a. m., 1 p. m. and 

 9 p.m. Changing from two- to three-times-a-day milking will not 

 bring any extra milk where the third is simply put in between the 

 other two without lengthening the interval. The farmer who is 

 milking at 5 a. m. and 5 p. m. will gain little by milking at noon, 

 unless he postpones his night milking three or four hours. Where 

 the cow is milked three times a day she should also receive grain 

 three times a day. The other feed can be fed twice as usual. (218) 



