1884.] 
AMEEIOAE" AGEIOULTUEIST. 
269 
JlilMng Tubes Agaiu. 
Our attention is kindly called by a subscriber in 
■Wilmington, N. C., to the fact, which gives us no 
little pain, and which we had entirely forgotten, 
that several years ago, one of the writers for the 
ArhzHcan Agriculturist had, for a time, such faith 
in milking tubes, that he recommended their use 
in this Journal. At that lime there was quite a fu¬ 
rore about milking in this way, A Scotch farmer 
brought out the tubes from Scotland, and said that 
they had been thoroughly tested there. He adver¬ 
tised that he had them In constant use on Ms own 
cows. He was known to be an excellent practical 
farmer, and hundreds of people were deceived. 
He did indeed use tbe tubes on one or two of his 
many cows, and the poor things’ udders were 
swelled and gargeted. The writer experimented 
with them once, and the very next day one quar¬ 
ter of the cow’s udder was inflamed. Such, was 
the well nigh universal result. The writer for the 
Armrican Agriculturist who endorsed the things, 
soon discontinued their use, but did nothing to re¬ 
pair the injury he had done by their advocacy. 
It pains us to see that very article, recommending 
the wretched things, reproduced by a prominent 
dealer in his catalogue of farm and garden imple¬ 
ments. Our readers will please bear in mind, that 
we now assert the tubes to be dangerous in the ex¬ 
treme, liable to injure the cow permanently, and 
sure to do so temporarily, unless handled with tbe 
utmost care. The reason for this Is that, besides 
the slight local irritation liable to occur from thein- 
sertion of the tubes, there is tbe greatest likeli¬ 
hood of a minute bubble of air passing from the 
tube into the udder. Air in tbe udder is a foreign 
body, and there appears to be no way of getting rid 
of it, except perhaps by means of an attack of the 
garget. 'When this comes, the chances for saving the 
inflamed quarter are slim. Sometimes it becomes 
necessary to draw the milk from a teat, when the 
teat is so tender and sore that it cannot be pressed 
by the hand in the usual way. In such a case, we 
have found the best tube we could use to be a 
crow-quill. The quills of a crow’s wing are small, 
sound and firm, and usually long enough, but in 
case the one selected seems too short (not less than 
an inch and a half long), the best plan is to cut it oil 
a little longer, cutting into tbe shaft of the feather, 
and then carefully cleaning this out, so as to make 
a continuation of the tube. The pointed end of the 
quill is to be inserted in the teat, and this must not 
he cut off, hut softened by moistening, and then 
opened by a pin or sharpened match. The end of 
tbe tube made in this way is somewhat contracted, 
and is not so likely to let any air into the udder. 
Still, on removing the quill or tube (if a metal tube 
be used), tbe wet finger should be placed upon the 
end, so as to close it entirely, and then the tube 
gradually withdrawn. 
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