MILKING.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 90, 30 March 1876, Page 7

MILKING.

Cows should be milked regularly at the same stated hours, both of the morning and evening, and when a cowis so good a producer os to require milking three times a day, still the operation should be performed each day at the same hours. Any variation leads to disturbance in the secretive functions of the udder, and, if continued, soon diminishes even eventually stops the supply of milk. Each time the person milking should carefully extract the milk to the last drop ; not only does , any continued breach of this* rule lessen the secretion of the lacteal fluid, but by attending to the rule the very best of the milk is obtained. The" thinnest and poorest milk is the first yielded, and the richest is that which is extracted last from the udder. Although the fact is pretty generally known, yetf the following table prepared at the experimental farm of Grignon, in France —the. result of tests applied to milk obtained from separate cows, that of each being at -every milking drawn into five separate vessels in equal proportion — is of considerable value as indicating in ah unmistakeable manner the great difference between the comparative richness, of the milk obtained at different stages of the process of milking : — Tlie" first fifth container] 5 per cent of cream. The second •,, 8 „ The third „ 11 50 „ The fourth „ 15.5.) „ The fifth „ 17.50 „ It will thus be seen that if the milk obtained from eacli thoroughly milked cow were to be drawn in equal proportion into two pails afc each operation of milking, the first half cf the milk thus obtained in the first pail would contain but one-third of the cream, while the last half, i.e. that received in the second pail, would contain two- thirds of the entire yield of cream. This knowledge might advantageously be acted on by those who keep cows with the view of selling part of the milk, and converting part into butter. The first half of the milk obtained from the cows— which, though not so rich in cream as the latter half, would yet be quite rich enough for all cullinary purpose?, and even more wholesome for children than that richer in quality — could be sold, while the latter half containing by far the largest porticiTof the cream could be taken to the dairy. A correspondent writing to the North Otago Times says: — " Referring to My Pyko's remarks, re 'slops,' I would suggest that if a little straw or grass litter were put around the roots of fruit trees and bushes, and the . slops then poured over, the effect on the trees would be astonishing — the litter would prevent the soil being baked, and the slops would soak through at once." A farmer on the road between Charl- ' ton Worcester, Mass., having been terribly annoyed by drummers, pub up a sign " No Machines wanted here, got one." It was no go, the next drummer wanted to see the rhachine, "and perhaps he,d * fix up a trade." So-the farmer next put up: "Gog the small-pox here." That worked well- : for a little while, but one day there came along a drummer frighfully pitted with the small-pox, who smillingly said:" Seein' you've got .it. bad here, .they've put'me on this route." A. Virginia paper , describes a fence do"wii there which is made of such crooked -rails that "every time a pigcrawls through he comes out on the same" side'. ' '■'."'-.'. .■ . . ; • , ;, The. sharpers who infest the country preying*, upon the farmers, have concocted another new scheme for victimizing the people. ' They pretend. * to be -looking for stray animals. One .gets 'a' description 'of .a stray horse : taken up by a farmer, and claims the horse, giving" a" 'description of it as-, a '; -proof that he' owned and lost., it. Usually he states that he is a longdistance from home, -and proposes to sell the animal for much less than its value rather than be troubled to take it home. The farmer, unless unusually sharp, accepts the" proposition .'and pays the money, when the scoundrel '-decamp*/.