A MILKING MACHINE

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2989, 10 September 1891, Page 4

A MILKING MACHINE

\.. a;;rieultuial writer uays ; Therein a luture fur uiilkiujr machines, uud their i.ii-'U'Mt I* ruO;,t probable in tho near future, if the right thiujr has not been already hit upon. 1 hud tbo opportunity of iuspeoUusr and watching tho working tif tiiii most recent invention in this lino, and to which a .silvor modal has been awarded by tho Royal Agricultural .Society of Mnghnd. There havo been many attempts to perfect such a contrivance, but hitherto 'hey havo not been successful, and have not unit wir.h the approval of eowkeepers and dairymen, tho objection being that they do not. properly *rrip the cows, and that they cause premature cessation of tho milk production. Tho mode of operation with this lew maehine is briefly this : Cowa' horns, with India-rubber cushions, are lixi'd on tho teats of the cows ; flexiblo pipes from these pass into another pipe, u hich is connected with uu air-tipbt milking pail. An air-pump, driveu by hand or power, creates a vacuum, and the milk is thus drawn from the cow into tho bucket, the passage of tho milk beintf ween through a narrow window. When the milk is all exlrac'ed from the udder tin' tubes fell off, and then the operator passes one tubo from teat to teat in order thoroughly to strip the cow, which is most important, as the richest, of the milk ciunes at tho close. The experiments wore on rows which were ninned to tho liovul ini ■>'n id of tnilkioaytnd they were not so unruly as nmrfit have hern expected. About nne end a half irallons of milk was taken fnun.i cow in six minutes, and it is stated flint, on a farm where tho implement has liee;i tested, the operation Pan be performed in live minutes, nnd the cows are perfectly docile. With one nf these machines a man can attend to tho milking nf ion cow. and an enprino of ono and a half hor-.e-poivor n nuflinient to drive tho the aii-pnmD. Bv hand power four'cows can he milked at one time. If this inai'hinn should prove to be effectual, it will be invaluable in largo diiirios, hs it is (lillicuit rr.r-a.'i-.ys fr> get milfeers.