HARD-MILKING COWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1305, 7 December 1911, Page 8

HARD-MILKING COWS.

A REMEDY, I'hora is an element of doubt as to Tlicthor or not hard-milking . cows. can ue treated so . as. to Ret their milk more li'toly, saj's a Canadian writer. Veterinarians disagree as to the. advisability, ol' treating .=1 icli cows. A prominent Wisconsin veterinarian, Dr. ))avid . Robert.-, is quite, certain that it is worth while to. _ treat' the.' difficult milkers, and Jie writes upon the subject as follows:— -Many a valuable cow and-heifer have been 1 sold, at'a sacritiob by the- owner ow. iiio- to tho fact- that they were hard milkers.. . Tho- cause of hard milking cows is so littlo understood by tho average stockman that the disposal at such animals is accounted for in that way,- but if stockmen P.?."'. v ens ? 13 to overcome hard milking in both cows and heifers,- l am sure that 110 animal would be disposed of for the lack of treatment.

CAUSES OF HARD MILKERS. Hard milking is duo to an abnormal contraction of tho sphinctcr musclo# rcgulatiiig the stream of milk from the point ot the teat. On the other hand a cow 10.-iiii'' her milk is due to a relaxation of an abnormal expansion of the sphincter muscle at tho point of tho teat. ■ Many ,a. valuable, hard milking cowhas been ruined owing to tho fact that the milker has been compelled to use a milking tube and by tho uso of tho milkiihj tuba the cow* ha-s become infected oitentimes losing one or more quarters. It is not advisable to'use a milking tube it one can possibly get along without it. THE REMEDY. UlO proper method of handling or overcoming hard milking in cows or heifers is by the use of a teat plug. Tho teats should be washed with a germ-killer solution and the teat plug-dipped in the same solution, then dipped in a litle healing ointment and passed into' the point of tho teat. The .teat plug being self retaining should be permitted to remain in the teats from one. milking to another. This will positively ovorcome hard milking in cows and. heifers.

This sa.tne treatment is exceedinslv valuable m the treatment nf sore teats whore the sore is.at the point of the teat where it interferes with milking. '