NON-STRIPPING OF COWS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 223, 9 October 1940, Page 4

NON-STRIPPING OF COWS

Sir, —With many other dairy farmers, I am immensely interested in the new idea of tlve non-stripping of milking cows. What possibilities the idea opens up. Soon the" cows could be taught to. become used to being milked once a day—-say, beginning the milking operations at 8 o'clock a.m. What a pleasant time the farmer would have. He could take a run into town so frequently, or else sit on the sijUp of the pig pen and contemplate the porker grow into a baconer. There is the unlimited possibility. that later the cows could be induced, by a little use and persuasion', to allow the Sunday milking to stand over till the Monday. The farmer wculd then not have anything, to hinder him from joining a Golf Club .-.AS new strain of cows might be evolved. Just fancy a special sale advertised of a mild horned dairy, herd which required- to be milked only once every two days. Aver- i age year-ly butterfat production yield, 901bs in 360 days. The sharemilker of the pre-war days Avho got his running shoes because the cows Avent dry in three months, alleged-, ly through the cows not being properly stripped^"'would have a grievance against someone. .. Yours etc., C. COCKY.