MILKING MACHINE HISTORY.
Tlie first milking machine is recorded lOOyears ago, since.when at least 100 different machines have appeared- In spite of Automatic releasers, and innumerable devices designed to Overcome the dangerous stress on the eows, every machine failed absolutely. It remained for Gillies, a Victorian farmer, to patent, five years ago, the principle of inletting air in like manner to the calf, and thus produced tho “Lawrence-Ken-nedy-Gillies,” the first successful milker. One machine having now proved successful wilL naturally produce -imitators, but past history proves their choice of success is one in 100. - ' :
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2086, 22 May 1907, Page 2
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94MILKING MACHINE HISTORY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2086, 22 May 1907, Page 2
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