According to an English paper, the village of Wittersham, East Kent, is quite deserted,' owing to the migration' of the agricultural population in consequence of the depression there. We (Waikato Times) saw in a gentleman's stockyard at Cambridge West, the other day, a most remarkable cow; remarkable for the fact that she is, what may be termed, “a self milker.” It appears that about eighteen months or two years ago this cow got caught in a barbed-wire fence, when one of her teats was split up the centre, nearly severing it in two. Since then the animal has keen milked constantly, but the milker only requires to milk three teats, instead o£ ; four, as the milk flows freely out of the onethat has been cut, as soon as he begins to draw the milk from the others
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 443, 5 February 1890, Page 6
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137Untitled Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 443, 5 February 1890, Page 6
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