. American dairying: a manual for butter and cheese makers. Dairying. 166 American Dairying, some cases the milk comes down very slowly, and occasionally it is not all drawn out by reason of hard milking. This may be overcome. It is occasioned by a too small hole in the end of the teat, which can be easily enlarged. The following illustration and man- ner of doing it, copied from a recent number of the N. Y. Tribune^ will sufficiently explain how: Make a small cone-shaped plug of ivory, bone or metal, or even hard wood, well oiled, as large as you can well insert in the end of the teat. By mak
. American dairying: a manual for butter and cheese makers. Dairying. 166 American Dairying, some cases the milk comes down very slowly, and occasionally it is not all drawn out by reason of hard milking. This may be overcome. It is occasioned by a too small hole in the end of the teat, which can be easily enlarged. The following illustration and man- ner of doing it, copied from a recent number of the N. Y. Tribune^ will sufficiently explain how: Make a small cone-shaped plug of ivory, bone or metal, or even hard wood, well oiled, as large as you can well insert in the end of the teat. By making a head on the large end of the cone, and just above the head a little contraction (as shown in the figure), the plug when inserted in the end of the teat will remain and keep the opening stretched till it will become sufficiently enlarged to milk as easily as you desire. It may be removed at each milking, and when the milking is done it may be inserted again, to remain till the next milking, and so on till the orifice becomes permanently enlarged to the right size. No harm will be done to the teat. To cultivate a habit of giving down rapidly and fully, fast and careful milking are necessary. Slow milkers seldom get all the milk, and the bag gets out of order in one way or another. Difficult milking is occasionally produced by a contraction of the orifice in the diaphragm which stretches over the top of the teat. The little cord which runs round the edge of the hole, contracts and knots up, closing the hole and making a hard bunch just at the upper end of the teat. Cases of this kind are more numerous than formerly, owing, I have no doubt, to feeding more corn meal and heating food than formerly before parturition. But sometimes it is brought on by too much pulling down on the teats when milking, especially where 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
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