Procurement of Cow 's Milk. 



1. Milking through simultaneous full handed milking, first of 

 the fore and then of the hind teats, until the milk flows no longer. 



2. This milking is followed by the " clean milking," which 

 consists in massaging the udder, beginning at the teat up to the 

 base of the teat, and as high as possible extending on to the paren- 

 chyma. While the first act corresponds with the usual full handed 

 milking, the second act massages with a milking motion, the base 

 of the cistern, and the third is carried out by surrounding between 

 the thumb and the hand, and stroking down the lower part of the 

 quarter, that is, through simultaneous pressing against each other 

 of both quarters of opposing sides. 



3. The first manipulation of the after milking is carried out 

 by pressing the right quarters of the udder against each other, the 

 left hand being placed on the hind quarter and the right hand 

 on the fore quarter. In case of a large udder, only one quarter 

 is grasped at one time. The hands are then pressed upwards with 

 a rubbing motion on the gland which exerts a massage on the par- 

 enchyma of the udder, this being repeated three times, followed by 

 milking out the cistern. This manipulation is repeated until no 

 more milk is obtained, when the left quarters are treated in a 

 similar manner. 



In the second manipulation the fore quarters are milked by 

 placing one hand on the outside of the quarter and the other in 

 the division between the two fore quarters. The hands are pressed 

 against each other followed by milking of the teats. Then the 

 hind quarters are milked by placing a hand on the outside of each 

 quarter in such a way that the fingers are turned upwards and the 

 thumb placed in front of the hind quarter. The hands grasp the 

 quarter and are pressed upward; then they are lowered and the 

 milking follows. This is also repeated until no more milk is 

 obtained. 



In the third manipulation the milker imitates the butting mo- 

 tions of a calf during sucking. The hands loosely surround the 

 teats and the quarters are lifted and pushed against the abdominal 

 wall so that the gland tissue is shaken. This lifting and pushing 

 motion is repeated three times and the teats are then milked 

 out. Following this procedure on the fore quarters the hind 

 quarters are treated in a like manner, until no more milk is ob- 

 tained. 



The works of Aashamar, Alfonsus, Woll, van der Zande and 

 Henkel, and Wenk, speak of the excellence of the method of 

 Hegelund. 



According to Henkel the increase of the milk yield in 37 

 Simmenthal cows was 217.4 gm. (3.4%) per milking on an aver- 

 age. Wenk succeeded in obtaining from 24 cows 4.5 kg. of milk 

 per day more than with the ordinary method of milking. 



Of course against the increase of yield must be placed the 



