DO MILKING MACHINES RUIN THE COWS?

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 291, 3 September 1910, Page 3

DO MILKING MACHINES RUIN THE COWS?

Experienced users of milking machines agree that it takes fully two seasons close scrutiny before it can be conclusively determined that the machine has no injurious effect on the cow or her yield. Past history proves that many machines appeared to give good results for some months, but eventually the decreased yield and the permanently impaired function of milk secretion proved how misleading first impressions are. It is therefore gratifying to find that one machine at least bar, "overcome the difficulty of coupling the animate and the inanimate and can produce proof extending over a number of years. A recent report from Southland states that Mr Charles Milne, a' well-known and progressive dairy farmer of Edendalo, has had the gratifying result when giving up dairying of ; obtaining the very satisfactory price : of X 0 12s eu per head for hi-i mixed ; herd of 104 cows. Mr Milne installed the Lawrence-konnedy-Gillics milking machines in I'JO-1, and has used them ; constantly during the past six years. ' Facts and figures of this kind are the ! truest evidence of reliability. Further ! particulars from J. B. MacEwan and | Co., Ltd., Fort street, Auckland.*