Milk from Music.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5963, 24 July 1912, Page 1

Milk from Music.

Mi .lo.Mah GinnL, of Wisconsin, litis, anorilinjr to Ilu.- London iStnuilartl, discovered dial cows possess an ear tor music, and thai. alien tlicir uiiisical taste* arc catered for they respond |iy n marked increase- in" their milk yield. Mr Omit ivcenlU. urnvcil in London lo convey Ids rjued lidinys lo the. dairyiiii-n of Hrttnin. lie claims to lin\e carrh-d out e\|>oriinelils sli(Hiii). thai cows lo which music was played liaVe increased their milk .supply l, v one-lhiru. '• Thm is. not s.utiinenl," .said Mr liranl to a .Slaudaid repiv.-enialive, •' it is downright business. If 1 fret Itritisli farmers to listen hi mi! I mean to con vince lliom." A few aerienlturul e\ perls in llie lnil.il Stales are apparently already convinced. The idea arose out of the success which has attended iMrs Howie, of .Suiiiiv I'eak I/arm, Wanliol.R County, who for years has pla\ed the mandolin lo her cows al niilkin- tinio and ivapixl much comincn ial beuelit, Accordim; lo Mr Grunt, the best music lo pis, in a low .s( ft tune, which will soothe the LroLibh-d nerves of the cows, but it has also lie-n di-covered thiit th» >oiiiiu cows prefer lighter compo-i lioiis. All cows like to hear a wall/. They ie\cl in the wall/, but their milk (urns sour if they are treated to -a vulvar music-hall air. The weddinij march from " l.oheneriii " has he. n found to have a c.ood elVect on many e( ws. The violin, thi- mandobn and the harim mum a io the instrumeuls specially recommended, lixperiments have 1 a made with full orchestra-, bill the cows resented these nltoinpls at. over persuasion, a nd halted from the scene, Two Liislru.irj.-iHs are as much, as cows can stand, nul these must not bn 10,, hieh or i>o harsh in pilch. The ureal poim to

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