BRINE SOLUTION FOR MILKING MACHINES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 17, 2 March 1915, Page 3

BRINE SOLUTION FOR MILKING MACHINES.

In discussing matters relating to milking machines geueiaiiy with Dr R. S. Breed, of the Agricultural Station, Geneva, New York, during the course of the International Dairy Conference at Berne, he gave the New Zealand dairy produce inspector in London some information ab'out the work that has been cairied out at Geneva in respect to the treatment of the rubber parts of milking machines during the last few years. The method of treatment at the above station has been to hang up

the robber parts of the machine during the time between milkings, after washing in a 15 per cent solution* of salt to which is added about 4 ounces 'of calcium chloiide to each 10 gallons of brine. The chloride of lime is added to the brine about once a week. Dr Breed states that there is a brine solution as desciibed above at New York Experimental Station that has been in use for about four years and which is still in good condition. The practice is to occasionally draw oil the sediment from the bottom of the trough, after which the quantity drawn oil i- 1 replaced by fresh brino. The results of this experiment are regarded as being satisfactory, and milk that has been flowing through machine the parts of which have been so treated lias been found to contain, on an average, a bacterial count of -5000 per c.■.-. A pamphlet is to be published shortly giving publicity to the results of the experiments. MILKING PAILS OK BUCKETS Some experiments have also been carried out with regard to milk buckets, with the result that it has been proved that when milk has been milked into a pail that has been partly covered about two-thirds of the upper surface; the bacterial count of the milk is ouly about half that of milk which has been milked juto open pails.