Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1913 — URGES KINDNESS TO COWS [ARTICLE]

URGES KINDNESS TO COWS

Wisconsin' Man Writes a Series of Injunctions to Dairymen and to Milkers.

Madison, Wis. —"Speak to a cow as you would to a lady”—the motto of an early Wisconsin dairyman—ls also the message of Malcolm H. Gardner of Delavan, Wis., superintendent of the Advanced Registry HolsteinFriesian Association of America, who was one of the speakers at the annual meetings of Wisconsin live stock breeders’ associations here. “If a person desires to Install a music box In his stable," runs the Gardner philosophy, “It may be that it will work all right, but the less of singing, whistling and loud talking there is the better it will be. Indeed, talking of all kinds except the low spoken, soothing words of the milker to the cow, should be prohibited. No man who hates milking and dislikes cows can make any great success; there must tm sympthy between the cow and the milker. Motherhood and milk production go together. Treat the cow like*a mother. Be kind; it will pSy, and pay big.” The “personal equation.” according to Mr. Gardner, represented by the regard the cow has for her attendant ‘gives hand milking an advantage ovef the machine. There is usually a vast difference In results, he says, the milker who gets the cow into position by pushing the leg of the stopl Into her flank and then kicks her on the shin to make her step back and the man who gains the same ends with patience and gentleness. “Who can blame the cow for wanting to kick the first man?” he says.