Faming.

Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 147, 29 November 1895, Page 2

Faming.

HOLDING UP THE MILK. Has the milker any remedy against wilfulness of the cow in holding up the milk ? Undoubtedly. All that is necessary is to refrain from excitiog the natural obstinacy of the animal by auy disturbing influence. Many persons have seen and noticed the sly, determined way in which the cow that has beeu ill-used —beaten, perhaps unjustly—looks back sideways at the the milker, and understands the hard words he is using, and expecting the well-known hard knocks Jihat follow the hard words. He knows by every action and the stolid determination of the set eye that she is refusing to " give down " her milk. But let a woman well-known for her tenderness to the cows, and apt to speak pet words and fondle the animal with a gentle touch, go to milk a cow and there will be no trouble. Or a good-natured man, who is ready with kind words and gentle touch to give the animal her due, and it will rarely or, never happen that there is trouble of this kind. There may be possibly, an exception with some iuexperienced heifers at first milking when she has been unwisely permitted to suckle the calf, and does not understand what is wanted off her. She must be taught by kind, gentle, and patient training this unfamiliar part of her business, and then she will not hold up her milk.