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drink which the cow likeSj or to fasten a bunch of 

 straw in her mouth ; or, what is nearly always the 

 most effective, to treat her with quietness and 

 patience, at the same time milking persistently. If 

 another person is present to stroke along the under 

 part of the cow's neck she will give up the retention 

 of breath at once. When a cow retains her milk on 

 account of pain as, for instance, with chapped teats 

 -which frequently occurs during first spring pasture, a 

 Temedy is only found by kind treatment and milking 

 rapidly with a soft hand. Such teats should be care- 

 fully dried after each milking and an ointment 

 applied. Whenever the milker has any reason to 

 suspect any derangement of the cow he should taste 

 the milk from every teat and look at its color ; any 

 -carelessness in this respect may result in spoiling the 

 milk from the whole stable. As a rule, milking 

 should be performed only morning and evening, 

 making the intervening time as equal as possible. 



As to the advisibility of feeding during milking 

 time there are many reasons against its being adopted. 

 When cows are once used to being milked before 

 feeding they are much quieter and the business is 

 ■ concluded much more rapidly; but there are other 

 reasons of importance, as we shall see later, for not 

 feeding during milking time, particularly for not giv- 

 ing any dry roughage. 



The dexterous strong hand will always be the best 



milking machine ; only in case of disease the milking 



•tube should be made use of and no other milking 



