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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 21 
Live StockandDairy 
WORKING Tht COW’S UDDtR. 
, The paragraph headed as above, in 
The R. N.-Y. of January 24, only re¬ 
peats what has not only been well- 
known by some old dairymen, but is 
still practiced by many milkers of the 
present time. It is simply one of the 
effects of a present popular treatment 
for the improvement of the muscular 
tissue, and of the functions of certain 
organs, which is commonly called mas¬ 
sage. I have bred and reared a large 
number of cows, all of which have been 
proh table milkers, and many of them 
have had calves, which at maturity have 
been as good as, or better than their 
dams. All have been grades of Jersey 
blood on native common stock, which 
have been bred among themselves dur¬ 
ing 20 years past, and have been train¬ 
ed to early milking and to large milk¬ 
ing by a process of massage of the ud¬ 
der. My plan has been to train the 
young calves to all sorts of handlihg to 
which they may be subjected during 
their life, and especially for the purpose 
of developing the udder. This especially 
by a process of massage, and drawing 
on and pressing the teats once a day as 
the young animals are tied and fed in 
the stalls—as they are, along with the 
cows—ai the milking time. This is con¬ 
tinued until the young heifers come to 
be cows, when they come to milk with¬ 
out any difficulty or acquired disinclina¬ 
tion. Thus with such cows the work of 
the dairy in every way is made as easy 
and comfortable as may be possible, and 
equally profitable. The calves have 
good size at birth; the males make ex¬ 
cellent veals, having abundant milk, 
which is skimmed after the fourth day. 
They are weaned at birth, and after 
these years of breeding seem to have 
acquired a natural facility for drinking 
without any but the simplest training 
in the way of offering the pail, and if 
the milk is not taken at once, or with 
only a little delay, removing it, and 
leaving the calf until the next meal 
time, and so on until the milk is drank 
without any trouble, under a patient, 
kind, treatment. The young heifers are 
taught to submit to the handling of the 
teats from their first week of life, and 
after having been bred some of them 
have given milk three months before 
the calf is dropped. They are treated as 
the cows are from the first year; used 
to be tied in the stalls; and their teats 
are drawn and the udder is rubbed and 
pressed as those of the milking cows 
joist, using three pieces crosswise and 
nailing to these, placing the top ones 
about tbree-fourths of an inch apart. 
This kept the bull clean without bed¬ 
ding much, but was not easy to clean, 
even though the platform could be taken 
up, owing to the spaces being so small 
that straw and the like would crowd 
in, especially over the crosspieces and 
bind. Then, too, it was hard on the ani¬ 
mal’s knees, as the bedding would work 
from under them. My last device is the 
cheapest and I like it the best. It con¬ 
sists simply of nailing 2x2 scantling to 
the ordinary raised fioor, which should 
be of the right length to accommodate 
the bull. These pieces are placed one 
inch apart and are about three feet long, 
extending from the drop toward the 
manger. This arrangement holds plenty 
of bedding under the fore legs and al¬ 
lows liquids to pass off at once to the 
gutter, thus keeping the top of the floor 
practically dry at all times. On such a 
floor the animal keeps clean and has a 
good bed under his knees where it is 
most needed, at a small expense for bed¬ 
ding. B. A. o. 
Colebrook, N. H. 
Protection from Flies. 
I have a horse that on account of an In¬ 
jury near the base of his spine is unable to 
switch his tail. Flies annoy him very 
much. Can you give a recipe that will 
keep them off? I do not wish to use any 
of the coal tar preparations. J. n. s. 
South Carolina. 
A French chemist has discovered a 
way to protect horses from flies. His 
invention consists in rubbing the 
horses, especially the parts most sub¬ 
jected to attack, with a little concentrat¬ 
ed oil of laurel. There is not the slight¬ 
est danger in its use, and the cost is 
small. Another excellent remedy is: 
Assafoetida one pound, vinegar half¬ 
pint, water one pint. If horses are well 
washed with this not a fly will settle 
upon them, as the assafoetida will drive 
them away. This drug has no deleter¬ 
ious qualities as an external applica¬ 
tion. Take common smartweed and 
make a strong decoction by boiling in 
water. When the infusion is cold apply 
to the legs, neck and other parts of the 
body with a brush or sponge. Neither 
flies nor insects will trouble them for 
24 hours. 
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may now have— free — 
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are. This is only following nature, for 
this is really only the way in which the 
calf milks the dam. But in common 
practice the calf is weaned and the cow 
is milked by hand before the habit has 
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this has had on the cows is lost by the 
non-continuance of it. In fact, my ex¬ 
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suck her, if it is only for a few weeks, 
and she is then milked by hand. A com¬ 
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should be, and is only worth her feeding 
when trained and when she has been 
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