Chapter III. 



VIilking To-day and. in the Olden Time — Proper Times for Milking— Milk- 

 ing-Pails — Stripping — Sore Teats — Importance of Cleanliness in Milk- 

 ing — Calving — <- Feed and Treatment Before and During the Calving 

 Period — Treatment and Rearing of Calves— Anti-Sucking Devices. 



- Milking. 



IN the modern day of multiplied railways and manufactories, when 

 the vast majority of dairymen take their milk to the nearest 

 depots or to creameries or cheese-factories, milking-time is far 

 different from what it used to be. The dairyman living contiguous 



Fig. 813.— Model Polled Bull. 



to the large cities of the East, especially New York, now seeks to 

 adapt the hours of milking to those of the departure of the trains 

 which are to bear his milk to the metropolitan market ; while in the 

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