. The dairyman's manual; a practical treatise on the dairy. Dairying. MILKING AKD MILKING APPARATUS. 227 the end of the teat and rubbing it a minute ; this will dissolve the scale and cause its removal. Kicking cows make serious trouble in a dairy, but a good cow should never be discarded on this account, for the trouble may be cured. Kindness and patience, by which the confidence and affection of the cow are secured, often effect. Fig. 30.—TIE FOR KICKING COW. a permanent cure in cases where the fault has been pro- duced by cruelty and bad management. Sometimes kind- ness is not effective, as
. The dairyman's manual; a practical treatise on the dairy. Dairying. MILKING AKD MILKING APPARATUS. 227 the end of the teat and rubbing it a minute ; this will dissolve the scale and cause its removal. Kicking cows make serious trouble in a dairy, but a good cow should never be discarded on this account, for the trouble may be cured. Kindness and patience, by which the confidence and affection of the cow are secured, often effect. Fig. 30.—TIE FOR KICKING COW. a permanent cure in cases where the fault has been pro- duced by cruelty and bad management. Sometimes kind- ness is not effective, as where a cow is suffering from sore teats, when she cannot be blamed for kicking. Then it is necessary to tie the leg very simple manner. It is done by the use of a fastening common in Irish and Scotch dairies, and known as a spancel. It consists of a loop of cord about as thick as a common clothes-line, and abont twenty inches in length, having a cross stick fastened at one end. This is shown at figure 30. It is used as follows : One end is looped around one of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stewart, Henry. New York, Orange Judd
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