THE DUPLEX LANCET PROBE.

Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 802, 12 November 1900, Page 2

THE DUPLEX LANCET PROBE.

The above is an ingenious instrument and should be of great to dairy men. It was exhibited at the late Clanduhinds show by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, who, I understand, are agents for tiie s-ule of it, and ic is now patented in the colonic-, America and Europe. The inventor is Mr John Hutchinson, of OraUi'u, VVuikato. Mr Hutchinson Ins been a very large milk supplier to the councries for many years, and often had to sell -or fatten a good milking cow for no other fault than that she was tough and hard to milk. So he set his mind to work to Hud out Borne remedy for the evil, and conceived the idea of a small probe enclosing lancets. So with the aid of a friend of his, (Mr Cttldcr. an engineer, residing in Auckland), the present instalment was perfected. Although it took several months of labour and many models had to be made and disregarded before the instrument was considered perfect, which it evidently is and can be sold at the low price of 12s Gd. It is small, only about three inches long, and very little thicker than a lead pencil, with a small probe at the end about an inch long in which the tiDy lancets are enclosed. When about to be used the probe should be dipped in milk and inserted in die teat, then at the will of the operator the tiny lancets protrude front the shield and the probe pulled sharply out, the effect being that the ligament at the end of the teat is sliuhtly nicked. There is little or no pain, and no bleeding to speak of. Particular attention should be tjiven to eltfining away any little scab that may form at the end of the teat at each milking afterwards, and in a couple of days it will be perfectly cleau. Numerous testimonials have been written testifying us to its efficacy, some of which have already appeared in print, but before writing this article I thought I would find out from some of the farmers who had used the instrument whether it was efficacious or not. Mr Coe, who is managing Mr Kusab's dairy, speaks highly of the results, saying it is a great savim* of labour, making the toughest cow easy to milk, and says that the instrument does all that is claimed for it. We certainly must congratulate Mr Hutchinson and his partner, Mr Caldwell, on the success of this useful invention.—(Ohaupo Correspondent).