THE MILKING MACHINE TESTED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 28, 7 June 1913, Page 3

THE MILKING MACHINE TESTED.

Mr Cuddie, during a discussion of the effect of the milking machine on the dairy produce manufactured in New Zealand, stated ito a meeting of the South Island Dairy Association at Duaedin on Wednesday afternoon that two months ago the Dairy Division of the Agricultural Department arranged for an inspection of the milking ! machines in use in every dairying district in New Zealand. Before the season ended, some 300 machines were inspected thoroughly, pulled to pieces, and the reports on their state had been sent to Wellington. Only. 23 per cent, of those machines were clean, 50 per cent, were absolutely bad, and in a very serious condition Indeed. There were over 4000 machines in use in New Zealand, and if the result of the tests so far as they had gone was any indication, then not less than half of them were absolutely bad in point of-cleanliness. Challenged by the meeting, Mr Cuddie described the condition of some of the machines as revealed by examination, first asking the Press not to ' publishi particulars, which, in one case, were revolting.