AMUSING MILKING.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 511, 5 March 1920, Page 2

AMUSING MILKING.

A townsman aspiring to become &, farmer, who now lives not many miles from Pukekohe, has, by ludicrous experience come to the conclusion that the whole art of farming cannot be learned from books. Being desirous of taking up dairying in a modest way, he purchased a cow, presumably fot practice in milking. Next he sat down to mill(, ?i with the book beside him. The print- ™ ed page told him that he had to _ squeeze the teats in order to extract the fluid from which the lucrative butterfat was ultimately extracted, and for which handsome cheques were received by his more experienced brethren. So he squeezed hard and long, but the white, foaming juice failed to come out. In distress he sought the aid and of a neighbour, who found nojßfr ficulty in milking the cow.jjflßWi that's funny," quoth the me try again, and you tell me where I am wrong.' So he tried again, and squeezed agayv but with no better results. The real farmer then explained to him that he must squeeze and relax his fingers alternately. "Ah! Thats it," replied the new chum delightedly, but that d d book only tells me to squeeze, and does not say anything about relax- f inor! The embryo farmer now_ knows that both theory and practice are essential to efficiency.