Show the proper way to milk drawing tho the milk from tho the cow is ia an ave everyday job we might say a twice a day ay job the operation looks simple enough and is quite easy for one who understands it none othera should ever milk a cow for it is important that the milking should be done rightly rapidly and without hurting the cow or producing any sense of uneasiness many good could not tell you it if raked asked how they milk they do it from habit babit acquired by early and long wg practice all and without thought as 13 to how bow they doit do it but a good milbur opens it his hand and grasps a portion portion of thet the udder pressing the m milk I 1 k down i nto into the teat and when his thumb and forefinger come to clero the teat pro per begins they aro are tightly clasped so 0 o as to prevent a return of the milk to the tha udder then quickly follow the second thi third r d end fourth fingers each pressing the milk downward until the whole hand band is 1 3 closed and the milk is expelled this is the proper way to grasp gras and squeeze tho the teat some mil milk with the thumb and linger stripping the milk out oat by letting the teat draw through b between 0 o tween them this may be done with gitil easy milking short tested cows but is by no means a method to be commended it pulls alls too much on the teat and is liam liable to hurt a sensitive cow there is no need of pulling the teats at all as many do ao the gentle rubbing pressure at first made on the udder being sufficient to fill the teak teat which should be emptied by a gentle squeeze as just described ascribed this does not hurt the cow unless the nails bo be driven into the skin which should by all means be avoided or tho the teat is sore in ia which case it should be carefully moistened and timbered limbered with ointment before beginning to milk A good careful ca refal kind rapid rod thorough is a va valuable anable hand band in a dairy mans service prairie farmer |