Dairy cattle feeding and management

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...of milk and those that give small amounts. Where the milker is expected to weigh the milk and sample it, a smaller number of cows can be attended to in an hour. Professor Hegelund, of a Denmark agricultural college, has suggested a system of manipulation in milking which he claimed increased the milk yield over ordinary milking, a descriptionM of which is as follows: Description of the Hegelund Manipulation.--"First Manipulation.--The right quarters of the udder are pressed against each other (if udder is very large, only one quarter at a time is taken), with the left hand on the hind quarter and the right hand in front on the fore quarter, the thumbs being placed on the outside of the udder and the foref1ngers in the division between the two halves of the udder. The hands are now pressed toward each other and at the same time lifted toward the body of the cow. This pressing and lifting are repeated three times, the milk collected in the milk cistern is then milked out, and the manipulation repeated until no more milk is obtained in thh way, when the left quarters are treated in the same manner. "Second Manipulation.--The glands are pressed together from the side. The fore quarters are milked each by itself by placing one hand, with fingers spread, on the outside of the quarter and the other hand in the division between the right and left fore quarters; the hands are pressed against each other and the teat then milked. When no more milk is obtained by this manipulation, the hind quarters are milked by placing a hand on the outside of each quarter, likewise with f1ngers spread and turned upward, but with the thumb just in front of the hind quarter. The hands are lifted, and grasp into the gland from behind and from the side, after which they are lo...