The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-11-14
ANEW nILSING MACRISE.
MIIks Cows CheapIy and AGTantage0usIy
Ts Themselves and Mia Drinkers.
Ii Works.
London Times.

London Times.
On III. farm Of Haiuing Mainp,
on the estate Of the Duke of Port
land, for some months past new
milking machine, invented by Mr..
William Mnrchland, sanitary en-
gineer of Kilmarnoek, has been in
operation.
The apparatus, as installed at
Hainirg Mains, is Of very simple
character An ordinary iron pipe,
one inch In diameter, is carried
round the COW house at a conyeni-
ent 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 regulator to
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 connections Is fit
ted length OF India-rubber tub
ing, the other end being attached
to the nozzle near the top of the
milk pail, whic! is Of special con-
struction. The pail is cylindrical
in form, with a truncated conical
top. It's opening, which is four
inches wide, is closed by means OF
a thick glass disk, which rests in
side flush with the outer rim of
the pail, supported by a thick
rubber band, held in position 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 sol
itary nozzle is for attachment to
the long flexible tube from the
iron pipe; the other four are for
short lengths of tubing connected
in their turn with specially con
slructed teat cups, each of which
receives a teat Of the COW under
operation.
| The cups. like the pail, are made
of timed iron and each one is pro-
vided with tap or stop cock. The
milk pail has in addition to its
handle, a couple of hooks, by
means of which is suspended a lit
tie IN front of the cows udder,
broad band of girting being laid
across The animals lofns for that
purpose.
The moduS operandi is very sim
pie. When all is ready, the pump
is worked by a lad, and the air is
thus exhausted from the iron pipe.
The pail, with its cups attached, is
adjusted under the COW, the long
tube is joined to one of the connec-
tions overhead, the stop cock is
opened, and a partial vacuum is es-
tablished with the pail. Next one
of the cups is moistened and plac-
ed so as to embrace a teal the
stop cock Of the cup is then open
ed, the teat is thus brought under
the influence of The vacuum, and
the greater external atmospheric
pressure at once causes the milk to
begin to flow. After all four cups
have thus been adjusted, four Jets
OF milk can be seen flowing into
the can Immediately beneath the
glass cover. In from eight TO ten
minutes the COW is milked dry"
The animals submit very quietly
to this novel method OF milking,
and after the first time they appear
10 be scarcely conscious that they
are being deprived of their milk.
The apparatus, indeed, promises to
relieve COWS of much of the dis
tress, which, under existing cir
cumstances, seems inevitable. Its
use will avoid the excruciating
pain that animals with chapped or
swollen teats must necessarily suf-
fer when MIXED by hand. More
over, its employment will insure
much greater cleanliness in the
operation of milking, a benefit of
at least as much importance 10 the
consumer as TO the producer. One
attendant can conveniently keep
half q dozen cows going. When
the adjustment has heen made for
the sixth COW the first COW will
about have finished milking, and
her pail can be taken tor the sew
enth COW, and so on. To maintain
the vacuum a few strokes at the
pump occasionally are sufficient.