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November 29, 1919 1 
This Holstein holds the 
WORLD’S BUTTER REC¬ 
ORD, 1504 lbs. butter in a 
year. Perfect health made 
her record possible. 
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Live Stock and Dairy 
Starting a Boy at Milking a Cow 
Will some of your subscribers who are 
old milkers give their advice on the above 
subject in language easily understood by 
a farm boy of 10 years? Also, what is 
the cause of numbness in a milker’s 
fingers, sometimes extending as far up the 
arms as .the elbow? E. M. 
New York. 
Fortunately, we have never had to have 
much "experience along this line. Most 
of the boys that we have had to do with 
have taught themselves by practicing ou 
some gentle bossy out in the barnyard 
when no one was looking. We did have 
one boy come to work for us who was 16 
years old, however, and who never had 
often need to be done by some older per¬ 
son for the first few days. Give the hoy 
a light pail that can be readily held be¬ 
tween the legs, or else provide a stool 
with a pail rest, and he sure that the 
stool is not too high for the boy. Explain 
that the proper side to milk from is the 
right side as the cow faces. There is 
quite a difference in practice as to which 
teats are milked together. Some prefer 
to milk first the two next the milker, and 
then the two on the opposite side. Most 
good milkers prefer to milk diagonally 
opposite teats at the same time—that is, . 
one rear teat with one front teat on op¬ 
posite sides of the udder. This method 
has the advantage of allowing more room 
for the hands, which may be needed when 
they become full sized. 
The final instructions should be to 
grasp the teats firmly with the full hand 
and squeeze hard with a slight downward 
Starting the Roy at the Milking Job 
milked a cow, but became a pretty good 
•milker. Perhaps we can do no better 
than to tell just how we handled him. 
Our first step was to select the cow. 
For our own protection, we picked out 
one cow that was over the best period of 
her production, because I feel sure that a 
green milker would check the flow of a 
cow that was doing the best of which she 
was capable. For the boy’s sake we se¬ 
lected a cow that was a fairly easy 
milker, not too easy. Wc didn’t want him 
to get any false notions of the job, and 
later pass up the hard milkers to the 
rest of us. Of course, the cow was gentle, 
and to insure her keeping so we saw to it 
that the hoy cut his fingernails down 
quite short. We thou sat him down to 
the cow and showed him liow to “hist 
back” her leg so as to get at the udder 
without its being in the way. We then 
had him grasp the rear teats fairly with 
his little fingers coming just about at the 
end, and had him close his hand slowly, 
beginning the tightening with his fore¬ 
fingers first, and shutting down with his 
little finger last. After lie practiced this 
a few times and got the idea, we showed 
him how to reach up on the teat and by a 
stroking motion of his thumb trap some 
milk to be squeezed out. We then left 
him to his own devices while we milked 
a couple of cows. We then had him stop. 
The next morning, the process was re¬ 
peated. This time, he got quite a little 
more milk, hut we found that he had 
abandoned the correct motion for the more 
effective one in his case of getting little 
squirts in about any way he could work it. 
He was anxious to make a showing in the 
pail. We promptly backed him up for 
this. The third milking, he milked his 
cow nearly dry. The fourth he started 
on a second one, and at the end of five 
days was up to four cows. From then on 
he steadily improved, because he had the 
right technique. At the end of a few 
weeks, or almost before we knew it, he 
was holding his own with the rest of us. 
ir. s. n. 
Teaching a hoy how to milk is much 
like teaching the baby how to walk. Make 
the milking job an easy one and he will 
soon learn. But like walking, milking 
should not be required at too young an 
age. If the work causes cramps in the 
hoy’s hands it is a sure sign that either 
the hands are not. strong enough or else 
that too much milking is being required. 
I have known a case wnere permanent 
injury, in the form of cramps, has re¬ 
sulted from too much milking at a young 
age. before the hands were strong enough 
for the work. 
In the first place then, don’t start the 
boy milking at too young an age. At 
about 12 years is usually early enough, 
although a little younger might be al¬ 
lowable if the hoy is strong and robust. 
The second important point is to pick 
out the easy milkers to start the hoy on, 
and do not let him milk over two cows 
daily at first. The final stripping will 
pull, squeezing and pulling first with one 
hand and then with the other. The 
squeezing and pulling should be kept up 
as rapidly as possible until all the milk 
is drawn that will come; then the thumb 
and forefinger process in stripping should 
be used until the last dro.p is gotten. 
If the cow is slow about “giving down” 
her milk the boy should be shown how to 
“start” the milk by rubbing the udder 
with the dry hands or with a soft cloth. 
This should certainly he done if the teats 
are cold. 
Nothing has been said about cleaning 
the udder before milking, as this is an¬ 
other matter. A dry cloth well used will 
often do this, but in the Winter season a 
moist cloth with warm water freely used, 
followed by vigorous rubbing with a dry 
cloth, will be necessary if the udder is 
very dirty. 
Always have the boy understand that 
clean milking, thorough milking and fast 
milking are the essential points for one 
to strive for if lie wants to become a good 
milker. The importance of the first can 
only be realized by knowing the value of 
general cleanliness and the added fact 
that the bad effects of dirt and tilth can¬ 
not be strained out of the milk. The sec¬ 
ond point moans getting all of the milk 
possible to get, and the last means getting 
it as rapidly as the strength of the hands 
will permit. Speed in milking can be 
acquired by developing strong hands with 
a firm grip, and by attending strictly to 
business when milking. c. s. I’nELrs. 
During the past four months dual-pur¬ 
pose Shorthorn bulls went to head herds 
owned by Miller ,T. Stupplobean. Claver- 
aek, N. Y.; R. II. Strong, Moretown. Yt.; 
E. A. Potter, Lake Geneva, Wis. ; Victor 
Hoskeer. Middlefield, Mass.; H. E. Toner 
Washingtonville, N. Y. Mtanv of these 
hulls went to head herds of grade IIol- 
steins. A tub of butter, manufactured 
from Shorthorn cream produced in this 
herd, scored 9(>iA per cent and took a 
gold and a silver medal at the recent Na¬ 
tional Dairy Show. 
The following Berkshires have been 
sold : Sow to G. R. Parks, Suffield. Conn.; 
trio to W. A. Wagner, Manchester. N. II.; 
bred sow to Fred B. McGuire, Shelton, 
Conn.; bred sow to George Iloose. Dalton, 
Mass.; two bred sows to Howard Willetts, 
New Marlboro, Mass.; boar to Archie 
May. Dalton, Mass.: sow to Arthur M. 
Cooley, Pittsfield. Mass.; bred sow to 
George A. Leavitt, Portsmouth, N. II.; 
sow to 1). T. Noonan, Lanesboro, Mass.; 
three sows to Frank Archibald. New York 
Gity ; two sows to Oren E. Parks, West- 
field. Mass.; sow to Earl L. Leonard, 
Barre, Yt. ; sow to Albert Phillips; two 
hoars to P. A. Spencer. Beckot, Mass.: 
sow to W. B. Farmer, Hampton Falls, 
N. TI. : two sows ot Edgar Gillette, West- 
field, Mass. Fliutstone Gem Fourth, a 
two-year-old bred sow was consigned to 
the Eastern Berkshire Congress Sale, 
Springfield, Mass., selling at the top price 
—$315. 
The farm will exhibit, at the coming 
International Live Stock Show, a carload 
of purebred Berkshire harrows believed to 
he the first carload of fat hogs to he con¬ 
signed to that show from Berkshire 
County or New England for some time. 
