Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-29
Milking Machine.

have often heard of milking machines
and wondered what they were like.
had pictured quite AN elaborate affair. witt
rubber caps to fit the leafs. with kind o.
suction that would draw the milk. some
thing rs IA calf does. When | receives
notice from Mr.. Lawrence that he ha,
sent me a milking machine and wished m,
TO test il. | wondered if he had prepaid ex
press charges. and whether instruction,
for using would accompany it. The MT
chine came. and 10! it was packed in Il box
two inches long. one wide, and II half incl
deep. opened the box and found fou,
silver tubes, about The diameter of "a small
straw and an inch and half long. Tn
upper end Was rounded So as to enter thu
teat easily, and on The opposite side Of tn,
tube were two holes for the milk to enter
There is an adjustable gauge ON the lube.
To prevent them from slipping too far int,
the teat. went to the barn, taking n,
watch along, and soon had four streams uI
milk pouring into the pail. | found i
quite difficult TO direct all the stream.
into the pail, and was obliged, with all til,
cows | tried, to hold my hands so rs t,
draw the teals together II little, or som,
va 'hN 'u''h "bulNi WdSlt. w IltupNer Iul
cow coughed, or stepped. or even moved
her head so rs to twist her body little
Some OF the streams would miss the pail
II took eleven minutes to milk the COW,
but she was MIXED perfectly clean.
mliKed the same COW by hand in fv,
minutes, and after Il number of trials
find that can easily milk two where tn,
machine will one. | think it would moi
be feasible to use the tubes where the
milking is done in lot or barnyard fol-
COW, however gentle, will somelim, .
run, and there would not only be II loss o.
milk but danger of losing The tubes.
WINE, rs the reader can see from the
foregoing. d" not consider the milking
tuops likely to come into general use, ye
l would recommend every dairyman t
have IL set of them. -Ohi0 Farmer.
Our readers probably noted the remark!
in our report last week of the Barton
meeting, concerning the use of the milk
ing tubes, and while we would by al
means discourage their general use il
milking, they have their proper place and ,
very valuable one it is, as we have presen
reason to know.
Last week while our cows were in The
stable one stepped on the teat of hcl
neighbor, and ours not being of the kint
described by man at the Barton meet
ing, that could have teat stepped on b,
another COW and show no mark of injury
outside or betray any soreness or tender
ness of the teat had the skin and hesl
taken off on one side for three quarters o
an inch from the end of the teat, leavn!
the muscles which form the milk tube ex
posed, raw and bloody. With such sore
milking in the ordinary way was simpl,
impossible, but happening to have smal
tube. the size of very large knttn.
needle we could, by using great care, in
serl it into The teat, when the milk wcul,
flow out with no pain to the COW, excep
that give in entering the tube. We shal
have no trouble now in saving that quarter
of her bag, and for such injuries am
many diseases and distractions in the bae
they arc Of great value, and one should b,
kept on hand in every neighborhood al
least, if not by every dairyman.