To Make Cows Give Continuous Milk.

Manawatu Herald, 19 January 1893, Page 3

To Make Cows Give Continuous Milk.

The spaying of milch cows for the purpose of promoting milk production, raised as a question for discussion at the last meeting of the Council for Agricultural Education, will probably strike many as a somewhat novel and incongruous proposi. tion. In Switzerland, Denmark and other dairying countries spaying for milking purposes has always been and is largely practised. Not only in this so, but the practice has become a recognised institution, with certain well defined and clearly demonstrated results. In countries were the spaying operation is piac. tised a spayed cow or heifer goes on for several years giving milk con. tinuously. Not only so, but in addition to the increase in the quantity of milk, there is a very decided improvement in the quality, especially l^^ljhe fats which produce butter. It also transpires that the practice of cow spaying for milking purposes has been practised in Victoria by a limited number of dairymen, but probably the reason it has not attracted prominent attention, may be attributed to the fact that the dairying industry of the colony has only compartively recently assumed leading importance. Now, however, that butter production is promising to become one of the most important of wealth bringing industries, an important question of this kind deserves the most careful attention.