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In the morning, the cows should be driven, gently, 

 two or three times around the yard before milking: 

 they will yield more for the exercise, and they will be 

 less likely to scatter manure in the way to pasture. 

 We have seldom hired a good milker. Females are 

 better than men : they have more patience. A good 

 milker will obtain at least one quarter more cream than 

 one that milks slowly. We have often proved this : 

 we hired, one summer, a man from New Hampshire, 

 who had managed a farm several years : he was 

 clever, but extremely moderate. We then had four 

 cows in milk, and discovered our slow milker was fast 

 drying up our cows : we concluded to give him our 

 aid, and let him milk only two. On the first trial, he 

 obtained the same quantity that we did. In one week, 

 we obtained one quart more than he at a milking. He 

 said his cows were not equal to ours : Ave then shifted, 

 and obtained, within nine days, more milk from his 

 cows than he did from ours. This was wholly to be 

 ascribed to his moderate milking, for he left none in 

 the udder. 



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The tails of neat stock are ornamental and useful. 

 How ugly a cow would look without a tail ! Then 

 how convenient this brush in fly-time ! not all the fans, 

 and fingers, and brushes ever invented, are equal to a 

 good tail on a cow for brushing away those naughty 

 intruders that are always readiest to hug and buzz in a 

 season wiien you can spare them best, — the hottest 

 weather. Cattle with short tails are much afiiicted 

 with this kind of company, which at noonday annoys 

 them to such a degree they are prone to retreat to the 

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