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Court Manners in the Cow Barn
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Speak kindly to the gentle cow, and never,
never tease her;
Take off your hat; politely bow; do all you
can to please her.
Ba sure your hands have been washed clean;
be sure your nails are curried;
More milk is drawn from cow serene than
from the cow that's worried.
Mother Qooee'fl Modern Maxims for
Milkers.
-ICKING the cow has not been
good form for some time in
even moderately advanced
dairy circles," says the Chicago Her
ald, "though the ban upon it prob
ably originated more in practical than
humane considerations. Painful ex
perience warranted the conclusion
that the cow thus approached was far
more likely to kick the milker
through the side of the barn.
' "Of late years the cow-barn code
of manners and morals has developed
rapidly from the negative to the posi
tive style from 'thou shalt nots' to
'thou shalts.' It has been discovered
that the cow, long the poet's live
stock emblem of placidity, has nerves,
and should be soothed and not cen
sured when she is disinclined to 'give
down' her lacteal bounty.
"Not only pitchforks, milking
Btools, singletrees and fence stakes
have fallen into disrepute as cow per
Buaders, bad language Is also under
ban. The cow physiologists and psy
chologists of the agricultural colleges
seem to have conclusively demon
strated that the cow addressed in pro
fane, abusive or even harsh language
gives less milk for the same amount
of feed.
"Even the tone of voice is said to
make a difference. The ears of the
cow, though less mobile than the
mule's are still sensitive. They are
irritated by strident squeals and
rough gutturals. The milker who is
gifted by Nature or has acquired by
art the low, Bweet, soothing, 'drawing-room'
tone of cultured society is
averred to find bis reward in an in
creased yield of milk.
"Thus It has come to pass that the
up-to-date code of cow-barn manners
Includes many things not dreamed In
the cow philosophy of our grandfath
ers. Not only must the milker's
hands be clean, but the nails should
be manicured, that they may not
scratch or tickle. From the most up-to-date
dairies the curry-comb has
been banished as the Instrument of
the cow's matutinal massage. Its
place has been taken by the vacuum
cleaner.
"These statements are not humor
ous exaggerations. They are derived
from most serious monographs issued
from scientific experiment stations
and from the rules laid down for em
ployes by enterprising dairymen. A
current news item records that a
New Jersey dairyman has now pro
vided a professional manicure to see
that the milkers' nails are in order
before they begin to milk.
"In logical developments of these
advanced ideas we shall doubtless
hear next that It is no longer in order
to recite on entering the cow barn
the old nursery rhyme:
" 'Come, pretty cow, let down your
milk, and I will give you a gown of
silk.'
"These are realistic as well as sci
entific days in the dairy, and the cow
should accordingly be promised some
thing she could both use and enjoy.
Perhaps this might be substituted.
" 'Come, pretty cow, I need the
cash; for milk I'll give you a warm
bran mash.'
"Then, while milking, the milker
might recite soothing selections from
the poets in praise of the cow. The
Vedlc Hymns contain a large num
ber of such poems. They are com
mended to the attention of the mod
ern bucolic muse as sources of inspir
ation. Then when the operation is
concluded the milker might recite
Ann Taylor's lines:
" 'Thank you, pretty cow, that
made pleasant milk to soak my
bread,' etc.
"However, anyone who has ever
tried it must remain skeptical of the
possibility of teaching a calf to drink
without using language that would
not be admitted to a family news
paper. That's a task like driving
mules."
Why Discard the
Grade Stallion
THE horse breeders of Europe have
had good reasons for discarding
grade stallions from their breeding
operations and they should be gener
ally understood.
The chief reason is that until a
special type of horse has long been
bred pure In one direction, neither
stallions nor mares representing that
type possess the power of stamping
thejr character upon their offspring.
That power is termed "prepotency,"
and it -Is the power lacking in a ma
jority of low-grade stallions and in
sufficiently present in many high
grade horses.
Grade horses possess pure blood,
but not enough of it to endow them
with marked breed or individual pre
potency, while many home-bred stal
lions, graded up from native or
mixed-bred stock and possessed of
five or even more top-crosses of pure
blood, but not eligible to registry In
Stud books recognized by the Govern
ment, are not so certain of transmit
ting the characteristics of the breed
Of their pure-bred sires as are even
Comparatively short-bred, imported,
registered stallions.
The reason for this Is that the im
ported horses, and those bred In
America from Imported sires and
dams, spring from stock produced in
Countries where all of the horses
have, for many generations, been
practically purebred, though possibly
non-registered.
Breed prepotency Is well Illustrated
by the fact that a bull of any one of
the old-established hornless- breeds,
such as the Aberdeen-Angus, Gallo
way or Red Poll, has the power to be
get hornless offspring from some 90
per cent of his horned mates.
These hornless grade Polls, how
ever, do not possess like power, it
retained for breeding purposes, and
so well is this understood that, wher
ever hornless cattle are wanted, pure
bred polled bulls, rather than grade
polled bulls, are employed. So, too,
the purebred bull of special breed Is
(or should be) Invariably used to
produce cows for dairying, for each
purebred Ayrshire, Guernsey, Hol
Steln, or Jersey bull possesses strong
ly the breed prepotency to endow his
Offspring with the special capabilities
tor dairy purposes characterizing his
fcreed.
Id Scotland practically no unregis
tered stallions are known for 15
years. The reasons for non-use are
that it does not pay to breed from
such horses, their Btock being ineligi
ble to record and as a rule Inferior to
horses of approved breeding.
The uniform experience of breed
ers and owners of Clydesdales In Scot
land is that during the period of sys
tematic breeding with the guidance
of a pedigree record that is since
1878 the average quality of the
stock has increased in respect to uni
formity of type, soundness of feet and
limbs, and general wearing capacity.
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