The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1890-12-27
A NEW MILKING MACHINE.
Milks Cows Cheaply and Advantageously
to Themselves and Milk Dealers.

On the farm of Haining Mains, on the estate
of the Duke of Portland, for some months past
a new milking machine, invented by Mr.. Will
liam Murchland, Sanitary Engineer of Kilmar-
mock, 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
around the COW house at convenient height
above the shoulders of the cows. 1t communi-
Gates with hand pump, whereby the air is
drawn from the pipe q circular tank connected
with shallow well of water serving as a regu-
lator of the vacuum. From the iron pipe pro-
ject connections, one opposite the space between
every pair of animals, each connection being
furnished with a stop cock. To any one of
these connectionsis is fitted length of india rub
Der 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 thick glass
disk which rests inside, flush with the outer
rim of the pail, supported by thick rubber
band, held in place by aprojecting ledge under
is the nozzle which has heen fefeffedCo Is and oil
the opposite side are four similar nozzles. all of
which are like the small connections upon the
iron pipe. The solitary nozzle is for attach
ment 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 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 provided with a tap or stop cock. The milk
pail has. in addition to its handle couple of
hooks, by means of which it is suspended
little in front of the cows udder, broad band
of girthing being laid across the animals loins
for the purpose.
The modus operandi is very simple. When
all is ready the pump is worked by a lad, and
the air is thus exhausted from the 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 partial vacuum is established within the
pail. Next one of the cups is moistened and
placed so as to embrace teat; the stop cock of
the cupis then opened, 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 fow. After all
four cups have thus been adjusted, four jets of
milk can be seen flowing into the can immedi-
ately beneath the glass cover. In from eight
to ten minutes the COW is MIXED dry"
The animals submit very quietly to this novel
method of milking, and after the first time they
appear to be scarcely conscious that they are
being deprived of their milk. The apparatus,
indeed, promises to relieve cows of much of the
distress which, under existing circumstances,
seems inevitable Its use will obviate the ex-
cruciating pain that animals with chapped or
swollen teats must necessarily suffer when
milked by hand. Moreover its employment
will insure much greater cleanliness in the OPP
Grafton of milking, benefit of at least as much
importance to the consumer as 10 the producer.
One person can conveniently keep half dozen
COWS going. By the time the adjustment has
been made for the six cows the first COW will
about have finished milking, and her pail can
be taken for the seventh cow, and so on. To
maintain the vacuum few strokes at the pump
occasionally are sufficient.