CHAPTER XVI. 



MILKING BY HAND. 



I find it more difficult to get men to do good 

 milking than any other work on the farm. There 

 is no place where inefficient work does so much 

 damage and there is no place where it is so dif- 

 ficult to detect a poor grade of work. Compara- 

 tively few dairymen realize the importance of 

 securing good milkers — those that will be kind 

 to the cows, neat about their work, and careful 

 to secure all the milk. 



Kind Treatment. — The cow should be treated 

 kindly at all times and in all places. Do not 

 allow her to be brought from the pasture on the 

 run with the dog so excited that she does not 

 know where heir stall is, and if she gets into the 

 wrong one to be put out with a blow and cross 

 words. The cow pays you for this kind of treat- 

 ment at the next milking. She cannot help it if 

 she would, and if she would she certainly is con- 

 stituted differently from her owner, and he has 

 no right to expect the cow to be his superior. 

 There should be a kindly feeling between the 

 cow and the man. who milks and cares for her, 



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