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, A lCotw; .an'6l Her First Calf..
Ti:The common practice ofallowinp; a. cow
to suckle her -first calf is not a' wise or; pro- j
fitable one,1 and should be avoided. It, tends';
?to'injureher as a 'milker ever afterwards.!
Duncan's' Live Stock ^Magazine, dealing
with'th'e subject, says:— Cows i are largely
the creatures of habit, and with their nrst:
calf everything is new and strange to them,
and they readily 'submit.to'be milked, and'
think it all right ;. but suffer them to run
withd calf the first season: and a habit .is
established that they will hardly forget in;
a lifetime. If they ever after submitto be
.milked quietly it'is'evidently_ under protest. '
But there.ia agreater objection' than this— !
the calf riihning withrthe'c6ws draws the'
milk every hour or two, so that the milk'
vesselsare not distended with milk, though
the quantity secreted in a given time may
'be larger And yet this is the natural time
'to distend the milk ducks and expand, thei
udder to a good capacity for holding1
milk. When', with 'the next calf, you- re-:
'.quire the milk to be retained for 12 hours,;
the 'udder becomes hard and painful.'.and;
~the;Jmilk' leaks from the teats.'.or,' more'
likely,' nature accomodates the quantity ;of
the milk secreted to the' capacity to retain
:it,-'and the cow becomes permanently a
email milker. Much of the future character!
of the cow, therefore,5 depends on the treat-;
;jneht with her first calf. .' ... i
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