Cheraw Gazette And Pee Dee Farmer

MILKING.

In the morning the cows should be driven gently two or three times round the yard before milking; they will yield more for the exercise. We have seldom hired a good milker. Females are better than men, they have more patience. A good milker will obtain at least one quarter more cream than one that milks slowly. We have often proved this; we hired one summer a man from New Hampshire who had managed a farm several years. He was clever but extremely moderate; we then had four cows in milk, and discovered that our slow milker was fast drying up our cows: we concluded to give him our aid and let him milk only two; on the first trial he obtained the same quantity that we did. In one week we obtained one quart more than he at a milking; he said his cows were not equal to ours; we then shifted, and obtained, within nine days, more milk from his cows than he did from ours. This was wholly to be ascribed to his moderate milking, for he left none in the udder.

-Boston Cultivator.