Not So Sleepy

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 34, 7 March 1930, Page 25

Not So Sleepy

OF a herd of 500 Holstein and Jersey thoroughbreds pastured on a tract of 2200 acres to the north of San Fran. cisco, California, sone 260 cows are milked each day by electrically-driven ‘motors, in a spotless barn, where electric fans drive away the flies. The fresh milk is filtered into a receiving vat, from which it is electrically pumped ‘» + cooler, which quickly brings its temperature down to 36 degrees Fahrenheit. From this poiut it passes to the bottle filler. An elec-trically-driven conveyor brings bottles, previously clean and sterilised, to the filling machine at the rate of 800 quarts or 1400 half-pints per hour. As soon as filled each bottle is automatically capped and sealed, and rides along on another conveyor ty the packing room. Here the bottles are inspected, packed and iced for shipment to San Francisco and other centres. The ice is electrically produced, the washing and sterilising of bottles is expedited by electrical devices. and electrical machines chop and mix the food in balanced rations on which the cows depend, except for short periods of grazing. This. in brief, is the method by which certified milk is secured and put upon the market by the Sleepy Hollow Certified Milk Company.