MILKING COWS CLEAN.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2054, 23 September 1880, Page 4

MILKING COWS CLEAN.

A correspondent of the "Agricultural Gazette" gives the following useful advice npon this subject:—" The policy of milking clean, immediately after calving, every cow—but especially those suspected of a tendency to milk fever—is being advocated and attaoked in your columns. "Will you let mesay that I think each party considers the action from a different point of view ? It fa quite certain that to strip a cow to the last drop obtainable is the right way to develop her milking Eowers ; but it does not follow that it is the est way to spare an overwrought nervous system. I have had about 100 cows calve here in the lust twenty years, and I have had but two eaaes of milk fever, and have saved both. Both, too, were oases of cows coming strangers on the place to calve. My man always milks clean, and gives the oow the milk to drink. We always clothe her up with a cosmo rug to stimulate skin action, and are very careful about draughts. But I quite believe that obtaining tho very last drop may exhaust, and not relieve, some highly-strained organisations, and that leaving the udder soft and pliable, but not exhausted, may be found a prudent practice with a very sensitive subject. Secreting milk is a drain on vital force, and not a relief in all cases."