New Method Of Milking Cows On Revolving Platform
Although New Zealand farmers have adopted many strange and new methods of saving time in the milking shed none can hardly have approached the one which is to be tried out in Australia of milking cows on an automatically revolving platform. s Work on the site of the plant has begun, but it will take 18 months to complete the scheme. The revolving platform ? will accommodate 48 cows. It will complete a revolution in 12a- minutes, during which each cow will be washed, dried, and milked. After the cow has been milked, it will step off the platform and another will take its place. The milk will be automatically weighed and carried through vacuum pipes to the milk bottling room. At no time will it be handled or exposed to infection. About 1500 cows will pass through the revolving stalls daily. It is hoped that the new milking system, which has been modelled on an American scherfie, will reduce working hours and costs in the bulk milk industry.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 93, 3 February 1950, Page 4
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176New Method Of Milking Cows On Revolving Platform Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 93, 3 February 1950, Page 4
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