WELL-BALANCED UDDERS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1303, 5 December 1911, Page 10

WELL-BALANCED UDDERS.

■ -HOW TO PEKFECT THEM. Many cows, -garty ■ unbalanced, udders; that is .to s:»v. tho different quarters of the udt.'l'r vivid a differing quantity of milk., 'J'lio udfi'ers show this alsa'in their shape.- .Mr. I).' .U. Shontz relate in the ''Xational Stocl'tiiian" an intonating experience in this particular, and states how he balanced up tho udders of bis caws.:-r . "Cows' udders can be developed at anv age, or, rather, light iiuarters or sides of a cow's uddor can bo ,-nado to give an oven amount of milkwich the side opposite.. .This wro-havo.'pro-red'!to our satisfaction on several occasions. The process we rather blundered on several years, aw whon wo had a cow come fresh 'that had lone side ot' her udder much more developed than'thft btherraild had been giving more milk from this-side. Wo-let the calf snok the Sight side and milked tho other,f but- not- all out;, left- perhaps a pint or more ill each full teat. This we did three or -fbur times. After four or five days I tool; the calf off and was surprised, to find, the cow's udder even. "1 he only ■ difficulty in this process is to get tho calf to work on the right teats. If the calf begins to work on one side of a cow it vorv soon learns to take certain teats first. Bv this experience we could only say we thought we had discovered something, but after a few years we had a cow drop a dead calf. This one, not having any call, to interfere, wo could handle as we wished; She had the teats opposite diagonally much larger than the Mothers, perhaps' gave one-third or u half more. milk thau tho others. We treated her the samoivav. stripping the light teat?: quite -dry and leaving milk in the full teats. This udder .was also very well balanced up by the process and remains - so.• . ."Another cow fresh last spring ...was balanced also by the same usage. We think'the enlargement of certain quarters of u cow's udd'dr comes from > the-actiVity caused by the calf .first sucking on these quarters. The sucking, like the manipulation, brings more blood and : force to produce milk to tho parts so handled."