THE MILKING MACHINE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1742, 6 May 1913, Page 8

THE MILKING MACHINE.

CLEANLINESS—OR THE SCRAP-HEAP. Referring yesterday to the erusado which is being conductcd in favour of abEoluto cleanliness where (lie milking,machino is used, a Tarauaki farmer urged that too much care could not be taken of tlio machines, and lie added, if the farmers canAoi. see this for themselves, no step on. tlio part of tlio Department of Agriculture could be too extreme to force cleanliness on the dairyman. prom a long personal use of machines, and a study of those used'on other farms, he had no hesitation in.saying that it would be l'ar better not to use a machino than to US6 one which was not kept perfectly clean. Tlio best place for a machino that was not kept clean was tlio scrapheap. A "licfc and a promise" was no good when looking after the machines, they must be systematically taken to pieces, and all tlio parts thoroughly cleansed. The best results ho had found were obtained when a man was "set apart to : attend to tho machines a lone. The man who had to attend to the machines had no time to do anything else, and if ho kept them thoroughly clean ho was fully earning his wages. "Personally," concluded the farmer in question, "1 have taken, an interest in tho machines for many- years, and whatever might be said about somo of the old styles, I havo never seen a good modern machine which was not <l success when it was properly looked after and cleaned. As I said before, however, if they are not kept thoroughly clean, the best place for them is tho scrap-heap."