FARM AND DAIRY
HOLDING UP THE MILK. Mr. John .Burroughs, the eminent naturalist, relates the following statement on this subject:—"Most farmers and country people think that the giving down or holding up of the milk by the cow is a voluntary act. In fact, they fancy that the udder is a vessel filled with milk, and that the cow releases or withholds it just as she chooses. But the udder is a manufactory; it is filled with blood, from which the milk is manufactured while you milk. This process is controlled by'the cow's nervous system; when she is excited or in any way disturbed, as by a stranger, or by taking away her calf, or any other cause, the process is arrested, and the milk will not flow. The nervous energy goes elsewhere. The wholi) process is involuntary as is digestion in man, and is disturbed or arrested in about the same way." And yet there are '"milkers" who are so certain that the cow holds up her milk because she wants to, that they proceed to punish her, tlms, as so often is the case in our dealing with cows, making a bad matter worse.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 187, 17 November 1910, Page 3
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196FARM AND DAIRY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 187, 17 November 1910, Page 3
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