One morning, a few days after Paul and I had settled matters so very much to our own satisfaction, the boy who brought up the milkers fell sick, and Ben, who took his place, failed to find them.
Some of our deep milkers should be milked three times a day for a week or more after calving.
A large number of cows are utterly ruined every year by improper milking; irregular milking spoils a large number; noisy, loud talking and rough milkers help to spoil a good many more.
This condition is very common in heavy milkers following calving.
The Red Polled, or Norfolk Polled, is the only hornless breed of English cattle, and they are good milkers and fatteners.
The Devons are not generally deep milkers but the milk is richer than that of most other breeds, and some families, where proper care and attention have been given to this quality in breeding, yield largely.
They are worse milkers than the Devon, or than, perhaps, any other breed, for the Hereford grazier has neglected the female and paid the whole of his attention to the male.
Great milkers will yield considerable more by having it drawn three times per day.
Thus, all extraordinarymilkers would be raised, and all poor ones be slaughtered: this alone would improve the whole stock of the country twenty-five per cent.
Some bastards are good milkers until they get with calf, and then very soon dry up.
There are probably millions of cows now in the United States that are indifferent milkers from this very cause.
If the milk is clean, put into clean containers by careful milkersand is then kept cold until delivered, it will reach the consumers in good condition.
The milkers do not even touch the milk stools, carrying them strapped to their backs.
The best milkers which have been known in this country were grade Ayrshires, larger in size than the pure bloods, but still sufficiently high grades to give certain signs of their origin.
It is well known that certain signs or marks of great milkers are developed, only as the capacities of the animal herself are fully and completely developed by age.
These polled, or hornless cattle vary in color and qualities, but they are usually very good milkers when well kept, and many of them fatten well, and attain good weight.
Large milkers are very rarely cows that please the eye of any but a skillful judge.
Several animals, however, of the celebrated Patterson herd would have been remarkable as milkerseven among good milking stock.
Great milkers and great butter makers are not uncommon among them; but there is such a mixture of blood in their veins that there is no guarantee of their producing their like.
We are not aware of phenomenal milkers among the Holderness cattle, unless all can be called such, their chief characteristic being uniformity.
The cows give a good sized mess of milk--large milkers have appeared among them as among other breeds--and their milk is very rich.
The breed has its phenomenal cows, both as milkersand as butter makers.
This is a mistaken view; it is with sows as with cows, the most prolific milkers are those with well formed and soft udders which almost disappear when the lactation period has passed.
Mothers that are heavy milkers may be given a physic the second or third day following birth.
Heavy milkers should be given one-half pound of Glauber's salts a day or two before calving, and the dose repeated when the cow becomes fresh.
This is a disease peculiar to cows, especially heavy milkers that are in good condition.
I rode down one evening to see the droll performance, and getting there ahead of the milkers found the bare knoll of the pasture peopled with ground squirrels and owls.
Romulus, the collie, went up to the burrows and the old owls came swooping over his back screaming shrilly--the milkers told me that they often struck him so violently they nipped more than his hair!
I have collected all the scattered references in Jenner's writings to cowpox in the cow or in infected milkers in my Natural History of Cowpox and Vaccinal Syphilis.
Men milkers are well known to lack the delicate tact of women; and cowpox has been most common in the great dairying districts where men-milkers are employed.
As soon as cowpox was recommended, it was remarked as a strange thing that this disease, according to current accounts of it, was actually acquired by milkers time after time.
Jenner's colleagues are reported to have denied that cowpoxed milkers escaped natural smallpox any more than their fellows[1071].
The hands of the milkers must be thoroughly washed with soap and water, and carefully dried on a clean towel before milking.
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Facilities consisting of wash basins, soap and towel should be provided for the use of milkers before and during milking.
This was where our cattle ran, for, of course, we had a team of workers and a few milkers when we came.
Why, in the long days we had spent in the saddle tailing the milkers and searching after lost horses for many a night.
So she made the cruel milkers ashamed of themselves often.
Haynes was daily employed as one of the milkers at the farm, and the disease began to shew itself among the cows about ten days after he first assisted in washing the mare's heels.
Good milkers is scarce as gold eggs," he muttered.
He ain't done any talking to me, but from a word or two I picked up from one of the milkers I got a hunch he's been sent over by Trevors.
The milkers and farm hands receive thirty dollars per month and "found;" and good milkers are in constant demand.
Mr. Howard has been for years improving his herd; he prefers short-horns, and he saves every year the calves from the best milkers in all his herd, using also bulls from good milking strains.
If there are extraordinary milkers among the cows, or superior workers among the oxen, it is better to keep them as long as they maintain their full vigor.
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