Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-08-08
Cow Milking.Machincs.

The farmers Club of New York city
and the Elmra Farmers Club of E!mirs
are wrestling just now with the very gray
and important subject of COW milking-ma
chimes. The old-fashioned way Of gcttin;
out the milk by comprcssi < the teats witt
the hands is in danger Of being supercede'
by more modern device OF tubes ant
spouts. which draw out the fluid and con
vey it to any quarter desired In the same
manner that grain is conveyed from the
elevator to any spot in the building or out
side of it. The president of the Elmirs
club has been giving the machine thor
ough trial with decidedly poor success.
while the New York club, through DR..
Trimblc. one of its leading lights, has met
with just the opposite results.
The instrument consists of tour hollow
tubes (what is man to do when the COW
has five teats?) which are designed to be
inserted in the teats. a rubber hose is at
tached to IT,. bottom of each tube, and the
four joined together at the lower end. The
milk runs away from the COW and is con-
veyed by the rubber tubes to the pals, or
anywhere else, according TO the length of
the spouting. The cows. as reported the
New York Farmers Club by Mr.. Harry
Ssdgewick. of Connecticut, are So delight
ed with the arrangement ''that they immc-
diately close their eyes and seem 10 go to
sleep" A few moments only are given
them to indulge in this delicious reverie.
for the milk is quickly drawn away, and
the tubes removed from the COW. All that
is necessary for the mixer to do while the
operation is being conducted is to make
himself as comfortable as possible. He
can read the AvANT COURIER, or white.
or trade jack-knives, or do anything he
pIcases, SO long as he keeps his eye on the
conductor and sees that no sudden and
violent pressure flops the end Of the hose
out of the pail. The length OF this hose is
limited in the first machines to 4 few inch
es, but we see no reason why it may not
be Just as we'll extended from the barn to I
mik-room, and deliver its contents into the Z
milk-pans as to discharge it into the milk |
rail-all of which would save much anxi- I
ETY. and wear and tear on the part of tie q
mixer. v
If it were not for the adverse reports v
which have come to us from Elmira, we i
might recommend this invention to Mon b
tana farmers. But the folks down there "
may be as old fogyish as they were in Utica a
when Artemns Ward opened up with his II
''big moral show" He had his ''wax fig II
gers'' all nicely arranged for exhibition, Il
and was congratulating himself on the Z
profits. when fellow who II
rad paused before ''figger" Of Judas Is W
:ariot, suddenly threw off his coat and sail
ID into the image. knocking it incontinent- te
y. SO to speak, Into next week." Arte- n;
nus finally restrained him long enough to 81
hout into his ear and ask him ''what he OF
meant by such proceedings" and received W
n reply the answer between breaths, that tn
Judas Iscariot couldn't come Into Utica tn
md show himself with impunIty-not if TO
e knew it," III
Prejudice, you see. and this may be at sh
he bottom of the Elmila's Farmers Club. m:
nd the cow-milker prove success after Sa
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