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can understand, will prepare the way for a pleasant 

 meeting when the milking is to be done. Usually in 

 two or three milkings, managed thus, all danger of 

 harm from the heifers will be avoided. They will soon 

 come to regard being milked as a soothing process, such 

 as it is unquestionably to older animals. 



Not infrequently the udder is swollen at such a time, 

 the outcome of a certain degree of inflammation present. 

 This means, when the udder is pressed even gently, pain 

 is the outcome of such pressure. This, of course, inten- 

 sifies the impulse to resist on the part of the heifer. 

 This condition more than doubles the necessity for the 

 exercise of patience and gentleness on the part of the 

 milker, and also for the exercise of perseverance, for it 

 is important when such conditions are present that all 

 the milk shall be withdrawn. When udders are thus 

 affected, hot fomentations will prove helpful. 



What is said above as to the breaking in of heifers 

 is intended to be general rather than specific. Precisely 

 the same methods may not work equally well with all 

 heifers, hence, in regard to this work, much can only 

 be learned by experience. It may be considered as safe 

 to say, however, that the following should be regarded 

 when breaking in heifers to milk: (i) No harsh or un- 

 kind word should be uttered, whatever the provocation; 



(2) hasty and sudden movements should be avoided; 



(3) no blow should be given with hand, foot, or club; 

 and (4) cords or ropes should not be used to prevent 

 the heifer from kicking, lest the necessity for this should 

 continue. It is not only legitimate but frequently neces- 

 sary to fasten the heifer by the head in a stanchion or 

 by some other method before attempting to milk her. 



Heifers and cows, in some instances, become so con- 

 firmed in the habit of kicking while being milked that 

 it is positively dangerous to the milker to attempt to 

 handle them unless they are restrained in some way 

 from thus harming the milkers. When such instances 



