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generally cause it to be sot down in place again. Use soothing words 
when the animal is quiet, and low but firm words of command when 
refractory. If the udder is inflamed, as is very often the case soon after 
calving, bathe it carefully with cold water, so as not to shock the animal. 
She will soon come to associate a feeling of relief with the operation and 
liko it. In fact, the whole art of training may bo summed up in the 
sentence : Use discretion and judgment , and show yourself superior to 
ths brute — in truth, its friendly master. Th<^ conquering of brute force 
by brute force is a relic of barbarism. There are vicious animals as 
there are vicious men ; there aro dangerous animals as there are danger- 
ous men. Both may have been bred or educated thus. Vicious men are 
placed where they cannot injure their fellows ; vicious animals 1 ad better 
go to the butcher — they arc as unprofitable to breed from as ;bey are 
useless for what may be got out of them. 
As showing the effects of 
bad and good handling, wo 
give the picture of a cow 
made wild and vicious by 
bad handling, and that of a 
cow used to kind treatment 
and gentle but firm handling. 
The reader can draw his own 
conclusions as to which is the 
best system, 
RESULT OF GOOD HANDLING, 
Feeding at Milking Time. 
Some persons, to induce gentleness, give the cow a mess before sitting 
down to milk. This is a bad plan. It leads the animal to expect it, 
and if it is not given, even if she is gentle, she is restless and discon, 
tented. The very act of feeding induces moving about more or less, 
and prevents standing as quietly as she otherwise would. On the other 
hand, if she be fed after milking time she will stand quietly and entirely 
at ease. Many good handlers feed before milking. By the time the 
whole are fed and the stable cleansed the cows will havo finished and be 
ready for milking. This is the plan wo have always pursued, and we 
think the better one : Before sitting down to milk we have been accus> 
tomed to have the milker give the cow to bo milked the slightest lick of 
salt from the hand, or a single mouthful of extra nice soft hay. When 
you begin milking do not intermit until the cow is milked entirely clean. 
Milk fast. Slow milking not only worries the cow but tends to dry hef 
