. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. CHAPTER V. Milking, Calving, and Calf-Hkaiuxg. Times and Places for Milking—Number of Meals per Day—Milking-Pails-Sore Teats—Milking-Machines—Hard Jlilking and its Cm-e -Rearing of Calves—Necessary to the Dairy-Farmer—Time of Calving—The Teat or the Pail—Improved Feeding-Pail —Early Feeding—Condimental Food—Killing Calves-Later Treatment of Stock Calves—Preven- '^ tion of Black-leg, or Quarter-evil-Early Maturity—Anti-sucking wm ODERN exigencies have very much upset mauy old
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. CHAPTER V. Milking, Calving, and Calf-Hkaiuxg. Times and Places for Milking—Number of Meals per Day—Milking-Pails-Sore Teats—Milking-Machines—Hard Jlilking and its Cm-e -Rearing of Calves—Necessary to the Dairy-Farmer—Time of Calving—The Teat or the Pail—Improved Feeding-Pail —Early Feeding—Condimental Food—Killing Calves-Later Treatment of Stock Calves—Preven- '^ tion of Black-leg, or Quarter-evil-Early Maturity—Anti-sucking wm ODERN exigencies have very much upset mauy old - fashioned methods ; and milking has shared in the chan:e which seems ^\0: J to have passed over all tilings : the hour—five in the morning and five in the evening —which used to be pretty uniform throughout the country, is now varied in different places to meet the needs of the milk trade. A given train has and the station is two or three miles milker therefore often sits down to his cow in the morning wliile the cold stars are still seen in the sky. Punching his hat well into her flank—a hat well covered with hairs, much battered and shiny with grease from the skin of the cow, and w^hich is kept for this one use, and lasts through mauy years—he tugs away lustily with hands and arms aud shoulders, first ou the fore teats and then ou the hind, the hands working alternately because it is easier so. Out of doors the milker is exposed to all sorts of weather. Storms of wind and rain contrive to be at their worst when tlie milking is half done. Very soon the soil is soaked with rain, in a day or two it is mud, and it sucks at one's boots. The three-legged stool, whose rade surface is roughly polished by use, sinks deeper and deeper into the mire. The gates, and the trees, and the old rails in the fence are dripping with wet, and the air is a vapour. The rain runs in streams from the back of the cow and pours ou the arms and thighs of the milker,
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