1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
711 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Lambs in the Corn. —I cannot say from 
my own experience that sheep would not 
injure corn if turned into it; but I think 
they would, and am sure they would eat 
the ears if blown down. Here, however, 
it is the custom to put in lambs not large 
enough to reach the ears. They eat the 
green stuff generally, but, do not molest 
the stalks, keeping to the leaves, grass, 
weeds, etc. j. s. 
Yalesburgh, Ill. 
Starting Another Herd. —The first 
report from Ellerslie since the burning 
of the great barn last June comes in the 
following note from Mr. Cottrell, the 
superintendent: “ With the exception of 
the henhouses we are not far enough 
along with the work 1o make a report. 
We are pushing the work on the barn, 
brooder house, shops, etc., as fast as 150 
men can crowd it. Our silos were finished 
September 15, when we covered them 
with a temporary roof and commenced 
filling. We expect to have the cattle in 
temporary stalls in the new barn in 
about two weeks. We have 70 head left, 
and have just bought Mr. Francis Shaw’s 
prize bull Deputy to head the herd. We 
have just completed six henhouses, de¬ 
signed by Mr. Seely, that are especially 
intended for winter laying. For cheap¬ 
ness, convenience and general practic¬ 
ability I think they are the best that I 
have seen. Each will accommodate 100 
hens. We have the six filled with White 
Minorcas, White Wyandottes and White 
Plymouth Rocks. The buildings are 
spread out over a 10-acre lot and when 
the 600 pure white fowls are out on the 
grass it makes a very pretty sight. 
“MILKING TIMET 
HOW MANY MINUTES PER COW ? 
One of our subscribers sends us the following ques- 
tlo r s. Will you be kind enough to give the facts 
from your own experience? “ How many cows does 
one man milk at a time and how long is he engaged 
In milking them? I heard of a man who said he 
could milk a cow In three minutes and keep on milk¬ 
ing until he had mlUed 15 cows.” What time do you 
generally allow for milking? Will you also tell us 
how many cows one man can well care for as you 
have things arranged? 
Milk 15 and Care for 30. 
In our barn one man is required to 
milk 15 cows and feed and care for 30 
head of cattle. Milking takes from 1 to 
1 % hour depending on the man and the 
cows. All our cattle —young and old— 
are thoroughly groomed every day and 
we find 30 head about all a man wants 
to properly care for regularly. 
H. M. COTTRELL. 
The Cow Regulates It. 
Men differ greatly in the number of 
cow3 they can milk at one time. A good 
milker will mi'k 12 cows night and morn¬ 
ing for months, stud some do more than 
this. I have for six months at a time, 
twice a day, milked 16 cows, and have 
one defective hand at that. The man 
who milks with me twice a day will 
easily milk 12 cows per hour in the best 
of the season, and at this time of year 
will do even better. It is not a great task 
to milk a cow in three minutes, if she 
does not give too much milk. Some of my 
best cows would tax a man to milk in five 
minutes, and others it would only be fun 
to milk in three and four. Cows differ 
greatly in their part of the process of 
milking. I have some that, as soon as 
milking is commenced, seem to force the 
milk into the lower reservoirs of the 
udder, and it is the easiest of work to 
milk them quickly and well; and when 
the milk stops flowing, the job is done, 
and no stripping. Others give down 
their milk more slowly, and the last of 
it must be “ gathered ” by reaching well 
up on the udder with a grasping move¬ 
ment of the hands, and the milk never 
seems quite through “ making. ” Some 
cows cause delay in milking by uneasi¬ 
ness, hitching here and there, and now 
and then a good symptom of a kick. 
Others by their actions imply that milk¬ 
ing—to them—is a pleasure, and such are 
milked very quickly. 
We have no set time for milking a cow 
other than regularity as to when the 
milking of the dairy shall be commenced, 
morning and night. Each one has his 
own cows and milks them, and in order. 
“ Old Indiana ” is the first cow milked in 
one stable, and “Old Beauty” in the 
other, and, as each cow always stands in 
her own place, there is no variation in 
the order of milking. This morning, by 
accident, “ Beauty ” was tied in the stall 
of a cow not now in milk, and with the 
result that I could get no milk from her 
until put into her own “ pew.” As soon 
as this was done, she gave me her milk 
as readily as ever. This is given to show 
that little things will often delay the 
time necessary to milk a cow. 
As I have things arranged, my present 
help, a skillful milker, does not object 
to milkiDg 15 cows from fall to summer. 
Of course, where cows are tied as are 
mine, with water in the mangers, silos 
at one end of the stables and hay and 
grain at the other, and floors io con¬ 
structed that cows do not get filthy, and 
need as much time spent in brushing and 
wiping them before milking as it takes 
to milk afterwards, milking 15 cows is 
not an excessive demand upon a good 
milker. Cows, however good they may 
be, do not all come in the same month, 
so all are not pailful cows at the same 
time. Of the 15 cows, part of them will 
he *• strippers,” and others shrinking 
away from their best messes, and it will 
be far from a pailful from each cow that 
the milker will be called upon to “pail” 
at each milking. joiin gould. 
Women the Best Milkers. 
One man milks from 8 to 10 and is from 
60 to 80 minutes in doing it. I have no 
stated time, but taking cows as they 
average, cows should be milked in five 
minutes each to have them do their best, 
which I consider good milking. I have 
employed milkers, both men and women 
that would milk 12 cows apiece in an 
hour and do it every day in the year, 
but I find that such are exceptional 
cases. I also find by experience that 
women make the best milkers ; they are 
more quiet in performing the work and 
consequently the whole dairy does bet¬ 
ter. It is more difficult to get good 
milkers in every respect than to get 
good help to perform any other work on 
the farm. One man will care for 40 
cows, with the exception of milking, and 
would have plenty of time to milk his 12 
cows if he did the milking in the time it 
should be done to have the cows do well 
and keep up a long flow of milk 
Liberty, N. Y. b. w. g. 
Three Milkers for 33 Cows. 
With me each man milks from 8 to 15 
cows, milking about eight per hour. 
There are cows and cows, both for quan¬ 
tity of milk and ease in milking. He is 
an extra milker who will milk 15 good 
cows clean in 45 minutes, day after day. 
I have 33 cows and three milkers; it 
takes just about two hours for them to 
milk and cool the milk from these cows. 
This is the time I usually allow. One 
man can care for about 20 head, as I 
take care of them—cutting and mixing 
the feed (hay, stalks and grain), carting 
manure directly to the field and spread¬ 
ing it daily, feeding the ensilage, wash¬ 
ing the milk pails, cans, cooler, etc., but 
having another milker to help milk. 
Davis, N. J. wm. bishop. 
Had to Do Double Duty. 
A man who can milk a cow in three 
minutes and keep it up, taking them as 
they come, hard and easy milkers, is 
certainly a phenomenal milker. If I 
milk 12 cows—not pick them—in an hour, 
I am satisfied, and but very few milkers 
will do better. A few days ago a re¬ 
liable neighbor assured me that his wife, 
milks 10 easy cows in 30 minutes, twice 
a day He claimed to he a fast milker, 
but said that ’twas no use ; he could’nt 
keep up with her. From 12 to 15 is as 
many as one milker ought to milk, ex¬ 
cept on special occasions, when the 
dairyman is short handed. Last fall, 
when my milkers were sick, I was 
obliged to milk 26 cows twice a day for 
a time. It took me a little over two 
hours. I don’t care to repeat the ex¬ 
perience, for it’s entirely too many. 
With convenient stables, one man can 
take care of 50 to 75 tows during the 
winter months ; but it depends on how 
much eare he gives each cow. 
Johnsons, N. Y. m, h. c. g. 
Takes Longer to Weigh Milk. 
One man milks nine cows at the pres¬ 
ent time night and morning. It takes 
him from 50 to 00 minutes to milk that 
number, weigh the milk from each one 
and record it on a sheet and take samples 
for testing four times a week. It is pos¬ 
sible for a man to milk a cow in three 
minutes if she is very easy to milk, and 
especially if she does not give much. No 
doubt he could milk 15 such in the time 
stated. There is just as much difference 
in the time required to milk cows as 
there is difference in the quantity and 
quality of milk given by cows. Some 
are very much easier than others to milk. 
Taking cows as you find them a person 
will do very well who milks 10 cows an 
hour. If a man were doing nothing but 
attending to cows—no calves or hogs to 
feed, which we require our man to do— 
he could well take eare of from 25 to 30 
cows with assistance to milk. At the 
present time one man attends to 21 cows, 
10 calves, 11 hogs and one horse, with 
assistance to milk and occasional help in 
tidying up stables, etc. H. H. dean. 
Ontario Agricultural College. 
One Man to 15 Cows. 
In reply to your correspondent’s ques¬ 
tions, I will s^y that I think 15 cows 
enough for one man to milk, and he 
should be able to milk them in an hour, 
or an hour and a quarter. Under favor¬ 
able circumstances, a good milker can 
milk them in three quarters of an hour, 
or three minutes to a cow. T am satis¬ 
fied with a man when he thoroughly 
cares for 15 cows, including milking 
utensils, etc. t. b darker. 
North Carolina. 
Buckley’s Watering Device 
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The GRANDEST of DAIRY Breeds. 
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“ Old Brick Guernsey Herd” 
are daughters and granddaughters of the renowned 
Squire Kent, 1504 A. G. C. C. amd of the Unost strains 
on Gneznser or In Amerloa—Conans, son of Squire 
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SOUTH DOWN SHEEP. 
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High-Class Shropshires 
75 yearling rams th .t will weigh 250 to 300 pounds 
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Prices reasonable. Write wants. J. M. HAM, Lyn- 
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STOCK NOW READY. 
Thoroughbred Cheshire Swine, Jersey Bull Calf, 
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Why pay high expressage ? You can buy the 
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WILLS A. SEWARD, Rudd’s Lake, N. J. 
The Lungs are Strained and Racked by a 
persistent Cough, the general strength wasted, and 
an incurable complaint often established thereby. 
Dr. D Jayne's Expectorant Is an effective remedy 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Cor. Chambers and Pearl Sts., New York. 
