Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-07
MILKING COWS
BY HORSE POWER
Farmers Witness an Odd
Sight Near West Chester
PROCESS is INTERESTING
Sometimes Sukey Brindle Stands
Quietly and at Other Times
She Kicks

and o'clock, visiting farmers line
up in the barn in the Minshall Painter
farm, just this side of West Chester.
to see thirty COWS MIXED by horse
power.
Howard Fraim, whose dairy is one Of
the finest in the Brandywine valley
lives on the place, opposite POcopson|
station, and the work is done under his
direction. The inventor of the ma
chine, Daniel Klein, is there every day
or two, but the other men are learning
the system and can get along nicely
without his help.
Some COWS in the herd of thirty
eight can be MIXED entirely with the
machine Two are vicious and will not
stand it at all. Several are soon to go
dry. and it is not considered worth
while to break them in. Thirty-two
submit more or less gracefully, accord
4 ing to disposition.
THE man who best understands the
nature Of the COW, who will study the
temperament of the different animals
and treat the cases carefully, will pro-
duce best results" said the inventor
last evening, after he had tried n new
COW FOR the first time. big white HOl-
stein with hips nearly yard across.
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a little patience ON the part Of the man,
and can be MIXED the first time. In
two or three days almost any COW can
be broken in. The machine does not
hurt her, but the feeling is strange, and
she must become used to it"
You have noticed the wringer which
the laundress uses on washday. 1t has
a rubber roller. On the milking ma
chine is a rubber cup which looks like
a piece OF this roller, about six or seven
inches in length The cup fits over
the cows teat. -Four such cups fit over
the four teats. They are connected at
the bottom with a little section Of rub
Der hose a trifle thicker than lead
pencil.
Now. fit those rubber cups on the
teats, withdraw the air from the tube
and You will have a stream of milk
flowing. The principle is the same as
that by which the calf draws out his
breakfast
All you have to do is to place q
bucket at the end Of the tube and catcf
the milk as it flows out, causing sue
ton.
No. that is not all. There must be
some way to keep up the suction. Tina
is where the horse comes in.
The horse operates a power at TN
other end of the barn. The powe
moves an air-pump. The pump create
a vacuum in section of gaspipe reach
ing TO point near the end OF the TUBE
Now you've got it, all but the bucket
The bucket has lid which tits on Il
such a way as to be alright
The tube runs into the bucket at on
side of the lid and out at the other sid'
The milk stays in the bucket and tn
air goes on through the pipe.
When you begin milking set IN
bucket on the ground a little to on
side OF the cow, near her foreleg
When she kicks, she will not kick
over If she did the milk would No
spill ~,
At the end of the milking turn a ii
tie cock in the tube stop the air cur
rent and the cups will fall off or ca
be easily pulled Off
The man who does the milking mu
understand one or two things. /
must know his COW. He must kno
how to slip on the cups. He mu
know how and when to turn the Coz
and take the bucket away. 1t is esi
mated that a man can manage thr
buckets easily after the cows are u.s.
to the machine.
The signals are easy. When I
milk stops flowing, or the COW kicks,
a cup drops off. or anything else ha
mems, an electric light is turned on
little bulb Of two-candle power, t
size of your thumb. and a bell is ru
at the other end of the stable.
OUTSIDE MACHINERY.
The machinery outside Of the stall
consists of an air-pump which may
operated by any kind Of power, and
dynamo to furnish the electricity
the lights and bell. In this case
horsepower happened to be used
cause it was convenient A water 4
tor, gasoline engine or any other X
Of power would do as we'll Il is nee'
about an hour. morning and evenins
AS TO cost, the expense Of compl
outfit. when the machine is ready
the market, will be less than a farr
pays one hired man in cash for YET
vases. In three months It may
ready for sale, but there are impro