Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . rd after a rest of three years, whileJosephines record is being made after doing her full duty as a dairycow in the University herd during the last 5i/2 years in raising fivecalves. Chief Josephine is now eight years old. She is of the breed calledHolstein, otherwise known as Friesian or Holland. She is only aboutthree gener
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . rd after a rest of three years, whileJosephines record is being made after doing her full duty as a dairycow in the University herd during the last 5i/2 years in raising fivecalves. Chief Josephine is now eight years old. She is of the breed calledHolstein, otherwise known as Friesian or Holland. She is only aboutthree generations removed from the rich lowlands of Dykes and Wind-mills in North Holland and Friesland, her ancestors having beenbrought to the United States about thirty-six years ago. In color, she is black and white like the rest of her breed, the whitepredominating in her particular case. Her udder is unusually large,being long and extending well behind. Her teats and milk-veins arevery large and prominent. HEGELUND METHOD OF MILKING. 773 Methods of Milking. Milking the cow is such a simple operation and one that occupies in theaggregate so much time, that it is easy to become careless about it and tolook upon the operation as one not requiring skill nor demanding scien-. Fig. 1.—First manipulation in the Hegelund method of milking. tific investigation. The feeding has received careful attention, both byinvestigators and farmers, until it is now probably correct to say that thecow in the hands of the progressives is more scientifically fed and nour-ished than most children. The ventilation and sanitation of stables has
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