HARD MILKERS MADE EASY.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4470, 2 October 1909, Page 4

HARD MILKERS MADE EASY.

!fiß trouble which causes cows to be :nown as hard milkers (states an Lmerican authority) is due to an ablormal contraction of muscle at the eat. It oftentimes reduces the value f a cow, as no one wishes to purchase r own, what is termed a bad milker, f stock-owners knew how easily this rouble could be overcome, they would tever think of disposing of a hard lilker at a sacrifice. The mere fact hat the cow is a hard milker does not adicat9 that she is not a good milker; >ut owing to the fact that she is a ard milker, she is oftentimes negscted at milking time by a disgusted lilker, who leaves a large quantity a her udder that should have been rawn out. Stockmen who know how o handle such cases, usually buy valable cows, owing to the fact that aey are hard milkers, and by the use f the teat plug and treatment, cause hem to become splendid, easy milkers, hereby increasing their value many lore times than the cost of the treatlent. A milking tube should never e used in such cases, as there is too mch danger of infection, and the esults are not as good as from the se of the teat plug.

Mr Frank N. Meyer, of the United tates Department of Agriculture, has een travelling in search of plants bat might be valuable to the "Western rorld, and has spent three years in fiddle China and Northern Manhuria. Mr Owen Wilson describes is experiences. Mr Meyer has found walnut with a shell so thin that it ould be broken between the fingers s easily as that of a peanut; a seed>ss, sweet persimmon; great white tbbages, weighing as much as4olbs. id peaches weighing a pound apiece, [e has collected and sent home seeds r cuttings of 2000 different varieties £ plants and trees. He found that le priests were the best gardeners, nd that the temple gardens held the est fruit.