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dairying: 



West, the farmer times his milking according to the distance he has 

 to travel to take his milk to the nearest creamery or cheese factory. 

 Hence milking is not done with anything like the leisure which was 

 observed in the olden time, but with promptitude and expedition, 

 and too frequently in overhaste. 



Fie. 814.— A Cross of the Buffalo, or Bison, with American Cattle. 



It would be inexpedient to attempt to designate any particular 

 hour as the most advisable for milking-time, in view of the fact that 

 it has generally to be regulated by the times Or facilities for reach- 

 ing the railway station or factory! 



As to the frequency of milking, twice a day is settled by expe- 

 rience as most expedient, with the exception that the best dairymen 

 agree that for a few days after calving, especially if the cow be a 

 deep milker, it is desirable to milk'three times a day., The old, pop- 

 ular idea that a cow should always be milked by the same person, is 

 a most fallacious one, as the practice of thus humoring the cow 

 tends to form the habit of not giving down her milk to strangers. 

 Pecidedly the more advisable way is to: accustom her to be milked 

 by the first person to whose turn it falls to do so. A much better 

 habit for the cow to form is that of being milked regularly at a given 



