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To start Jud Ma*««, clip* tall. Watching or* 

 fiaMman Sooy, Carllnvllla, ltls>«, Bleombigten. 



Mind qwartar* com* naxt. l*« Shafar, 

 Fomt* H a l dai u n, O lw ay, tliows wh«r« I 

 abava liaciu. 



Clip Cows for 



Higher Profits 



By LEW REISNER 



Field Editor. lAA RECORD 



(^LIFFINCi lo^vN lulpv lu keep milk 

 ^ ikan hv lioldiiit; down tlit haitcri.i 

 i.ount. HouuiSf ik.m niilk liei^lit 

 I tiiN c|ii.ilu\ Illinois ii.tir\ iOO|" 

 J dTi: Mckin^' to proiiioli tins |M.Ktui 

 ainon^ tJKir tann incinhcrs. 



lo learn tlic latest in ilij'jiini; teili 

 iiiijiie (Quality neldmen I rom Illinois 

 dairy lOoperatnes lliroucliout the statt 

 attended a speiial i lipping school heh) 

 recently on the \i' . A. Rogers lariii near 

 Hinsdale in DiiPa^e county. 



( lippint; has been made tar easier 

 with modern electric clippers that do not 

 ^oiif,'e the lOw's hide, the tieldmen 

 learned. Sweating only a little, they 

 trimmed their tirst rows in less than I'' 

 minutes. An old hand can cut this time 

 111 half 



^'ou start on the cOw s tail Inst, the. 

 men were told, and then trim the area 

 around the tail hone. The hind i^iiar 

 ters come next, starting on the lei; just 

 above the hock. The udder is clipped 

 by holding the skin taut and cuidin^' the 

 clipper head carefully. 



A strip up the Kukbone. la\orite 

 breeding spot for lice, can also be clipped 

 but this is optional. 



I:d Warner, expert low dipfxr, sheep 

 shearer, and demon.strator for an ec^uip- 

 iiient company, said any farmer can get 

 tlie hang of cow dipping. The secret, 

 he said, is to clip in a direction opposite 

 to the wav the hair lies on the animal. 

 The skin in front of the clipf^r liead al- 

 ways should be drawn tight. 



Clipping makes it easier to keep cows 

 clean and is recommended by colleges of 



agriculture throughout the Midwest li 

 IS well known that long hair on the 

 tlanks, udder and underline provides a 

 clinging jilace tor dirt and tilth. 



It also improves the looks of an animal, 

 and this, ol course, makes them sell 

 better m the sale ring. 



I'ests made at the University of Wis 

 lonsin indicate that the number ot bac- 

 teria in milk can be reduced by as much 

 as 3 I per cent by clipping. 



Oi even more importance to the aver 

 d^i: milk producer is the time saveci 

 Since cows keej-' cleaner alter being 

 clipped, particularly during winter 

 months, farmers find they save a few 

 minutes each milking when the udders 

 they clean have been trimmed. 



Clipping will not make a millionaire 

 out ot every dairymen, e\en the most 

 ardent supporters of the practice would 

 admit. It dots cut the corners a bit and 

 increases the profit margin in dairying. 

 .m industrv where profit margins art gen- 

 erally narrow. 



The clipping demonstration was part 

 of a two day sihool for the quality field- 

 inen. The first day they spent learning 

 how to maintain and repair electric milk 

 coolers which are handled by Illinois 

 Milk Producers Supply Company for 

 milk producers. 



The eledric clipper retjuire little can 

 except ptriodic oiling. The two remov 

 able blade-s are hollow ground and re 

 cjuire special grinding to sharpen. 



A special head is manufactured to tit 

 the clipper and can be used to shear 

 sheep 



llMva: OInay flaldimm Taylor trims flank. ■ 

 law: FiaMnran Fradarick clips tout uddar. 



id Wamar, Chicaga, cHppar flaMntan, trims strip 

 up bachfcana to Italp c aw t i al Iko. This is aptianol. 



Finishing taodias oru pot on cow hy 

 Taylor. Clipp i ng savos tima 







I* claanl n g cows. 







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FEBR 



