Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-11-06
A NEW MILKING MACHINE.
Milks Cows cheaply and Easily by q
Simple Apparatus.


On the farm of Haining Mains, on the
estate of the Duke of Portland, for some
months past new milking machine, in
vented by Mr.. William Murchland, sani-
tary engineer of Kilmarnock, has been
in operation.
The apparatus, as installed at Haining
Mains, is of very simple character. An
ordinary iron pipe, one inch in diameter,
is carried round the COW house at con-
venient height above the shoulders OF
the cows. 1t communicates with hand
pump, whereby the air is drawn from
the pipe, circular tank connected with
shallow well of water serving as regu-
lator of the vacuum. From the iron pipe
project connections, one opposite the
space between every pair OF animals,
each connection being furnished with a
stop cock. To any one OF these connec-
tions is fitted length of India-rubber
tubing, the other end being attached to
a nozzle near the top of the milk pail,
which is of special construction. The
pail is cylindrical in form, with trun-
Gated conical top. Its opening, which is
four inches wide, is closed by means of a
thick glass disk, which rests inside flush
with the outer rim of the pail, supported
| by thick rubber band, held in place by
a projecting ledge underneath. On one
side of the shoulder of the pail is the
nozzle which has been referred to and on
the opposite side are four similar nozzles,
all of which are like the small connec-
tions upon the iron pipe. The solitary
nozzle is for attachment to the long tlexi-
BILE tube from the iron pipe; the other
| four are for short lengths of tubing con-
nected in their turn with specially con-
structed teat cups, each of which receives
teat of the cow under operation. The
cups, like the pail, are made of timed
iron, and each one is provided with a
tap or stop cock. The milk pail has, in
addition to its handle, a couple of hooks,
by means of which it is suspended little
in front of the cows udder, broad band
Of girting being laid across the animals
loins for the purpose.
The modus operandi is very simple,
When all is ready, the pump is worked
by lad, and the air is thus exhausted
from the iron pipe. Then a pail, witt
its cups attached, is adjusted under thu
COW, the long tube is joined to one of the
connections overhead, the stop cock il
opened, and partial vacuum is estab
lished within the pail. Next one of tht
cups is moistened and placed so as to EN-
brace teat; the stop cock of the cup II
then opened, the teat is thus brough
under the influence of the vacuum, anC
the greater external atmospheric pressure
at once causes the milk to fow Afte
all four cups have thus been adjusted
four Jets of milk can be seen flowing int
the can Immediately beneath the glas
cover. In from eight to ten minutes th'
COW is MIXED "dry."
The animals submit very quietly t.
this novel method of milking, and afte
the first time they appear to be scarcel.
conscious that they are being deprived o
their milk. The apparatus, indeed, prom
ises to relieve COWS of much of the dis
tress which, under existing circumstan
!. ces, seems inevitable. Its use viii
obviate the excruciating pain that AM
mails with chapped or swollen teats mus
necessarily suffer when MIXED by hand
Moreover, its employment will insur
much greater cleanliness in the operatio
of milking, a benefit of at least as muc
Importance to the consumer as to tn
producer. One attendant can conven
iently keep half dozen cows going B
the time the adjustment has been mad
!, for the sixth cow the first COW will abou
have finished milking, and her pail ca
10 aIyoy, for tho cavnnth cnw and so or
To maintain the vacuum few stroke
at the pump occasionally are sufficient
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