The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-10-31
A NEW MILKING MACHINE.
Mfiks Cows dheapIy and Advantage
onsIy tOThemseIves and MIX
1t Works.

Drinkers 1t Works.
On the farm of Haining Mains, on the
estate Of the DIXIE of Portland, for some
months past q new milking machine, ill.,
vented by Mr.. William Murchlard, SAINT
airy engineer Of Kilmarnock, has been in
operation.
The apparatus, as installed at Haining
Mains, is ola very simple character. An
ordinary iron pipe, one inch in dia meter
is carried round the COW house at a con-
venient height above the shoulders of the
cows. lteommunicates with a hand d ump.
whereby the air is drawn from the pine a
circular tank connected with a shallow
well OF water serving as a regulator of the
vacuum. From the iron pipe project con-
nectIons, one opposite the space between
every pair of animals, each connection be.
ing furnished with a stop cock. To any
one OF these connections is fitted a length
oil lndla-rubber tubing the other being at
taehed TO a nozzle near the top of the milk
pail, which is of special construction. The
pail is cylindrical in form, with a truueated
cohical 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 a
thick rubber band, held in place bv a nro.
Jectlhg iedge underneath. On one side of
the shoulder of the pail is tue nozzle
which has been referred to and on the on.
poslte side are fonr similar ~nozzles, all of
which are like the small connections unon
the iron pipe. The solitary 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 constructed teat u each of
which receives a tear of the cow undar
operation. The cups. like the pail, are
made of timed iron, and each one is pro-
vlded 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
a little IN front of the cows udder, a broad
band OF girthing being laid across the an
imals loins for the purpose.
The modus operandi is very simnle
When all is ready, the pump is worked by
a lad, and the air is thus exhausted from
the iron pipe. Then a pail, with its cups
attached, is adjusted under the cow. the
long tube is joined to one OF the connections
overhead, the stop cock is opened. and a
partial vacuum is established within the
pau. Next one of the cGpA is moistened
ana placed SO as to embrace a teat. the stop
cock OF the cup is then opened, the teat is
TINS brought under the influence of the
vacuum, the greater external atmospheric
pressure at once causes the milk to begin
to iiow- After all four cups nave thus
been adjusted, four jets Of milk can be
seen flowing into the can Immediately be-
meath the glass cover. In from eight to
ten minutes the COW is MIXED dry"
n animals submit very quietly to this
novel method OF milking, and after the first
Tune they appear TO be scarcely conscious
that they are being deprived oil their milk.
HE apparatus. indeed, promises to relieve
COWS OF much OF the distress which, under
existing circumstances, seems inevitable.
lts use VIII obviate the excruciating pain
that animals with ehapped or swollen teats
must necessarily suffer when MIXED by
n Moreover, its employment will in
sure much crater cleanliness in the opera
tion OF milking, a benefit to the consumer
as we'll as TO the producer. One attendant
can conveniently keep half a dozen cows
going. BY the time the adjustments have
been made for the sixth COW the first COW
will aboat have finished milking, and her
pail can be taken for the seventh COW, and
so on. To maintain the vacuum a few
strokes at the pump occasionally are suf-
icient.-L0ndon Times.