Machine Milking.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 December 1913, Page 3

Machine Milking.

ITS EFFECT ON THE FLOW OF MILK. The New York Agricultural Experimental Station has been making a study for the past four years of the elicet of hand and machine methods of milking on the flow of milk. On an average about eleven cows were milked by machine, and an equal number by hand. The total time required for preparing the machines, milking twelve cows, and washing the machines was/4. minutes per cow, and for'hand milking 7 minutes per cow. The influence of machine milking upon the flow of milk was found to be too small to be measured, even when other factors were eliminated as fully as. possible. There were also ofcservo'd no objectionable local effects upon the covrs,. or the flow of milk when the (lejsee of vacuum used was varied.% It was considered by the station officers that there is still room_ for improvement in milking machines but their success at the present time depends a -great deal upon the operator.