Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-16
N|[K|NGBY MACHINERY
VIM. Paisley, of Taylor Town
ship, Is Milking His Cows
With a Patent Device
SAYS ITS A GREAT SUCCESS
Scarcity Of Hired Help and Large
Amount of Work to Be Done Made
Some Other System Than Milking
by Hand and Necessity-Mac hines
Expensive But Effective.

Do you milk COWS? And if you follow
the old fashioned way it is quite job
these days in harvesting and threshing
season, when field work lasts until
dark comes, then to go in and milk
half a dozen cows before quitting-at
least that is what William Paisley, Of
Taylor township thought, and his cows
were not six, but twenty-one.
He read in the T.-R. that a Mr.. So
lit, of GoldieId, had machine for
milking that was a success, and after
corresponding with him, and the man
ufactory, he has now installed on his
place complete outfit, so that this
part of his labor is over.
The machinery part is of the SIM
rlest kind and can be operated by a
hoy, woman or hired man. Located
some fifty, feet from Mr. Paisleys barn
is a house containing his gasoline en-
CINE. and here is installed the machine
which extracts the milk from the cows
in the barn. An inch and a half pipe
is laid from the engine house to the
barn, and after reaching the barn runs
along the top of the stanchion For
each COW a stop cock is inserted-When
the cows are driven in, a rubber pipe
is run from the stop cock to large
bucket. which is placed like any or
binary bucket under the cows udder.
Connected with the bucket Is another
short rubber hose from which extends
four nicked cups large enough to sur
round the teat and long enough so that
the teat is not touched and the suction
holds it tight to the udder This can
be done to any number of cows at the
same time. The more buckets used the
more cows that can be MIXED at once
When everything is in readiness, the
gasoline engine is started, and the sys-
ter from we'll with a double cylinder
pump. This is necessary in order to
hold the cups against the udder.
Mr.. Paisley uses four buckets, and
as the buckets cost about $50 each.
this is plenty for twenty-one cows. It
takes about three minutes after start
ing to get two gallons of milk from
COW. You can tell by the feeling Of the
udder when a COW is finished. When
thru, turn the stop cock, detach the
hose and go to another cow, attach,
turn stop cock and keep it up until
the herd is milked.
Mr.. Paisley has been using his ma
chine only a short time and says the
old cows don't make much fuss and
the heifers seem to like it.. When a
cow doesn't give down her milk freely,
it takes a little longer than three min
utes to get 1t, but as the machine keeps
at it she gives in, in a short time, and
after a few milkings gives right
up, or down, whichever way you put it.
In a few years the following adver-
tisement will be common: Wanted,
hired man. Good wages. Cows MIXED
by machine" While the machine is
a great help it has other features
which appeal to many, such as clean
illness, as no dirt from the udder gains
access to the bucket as 1t is closed
tight Then swearing should be re-
duced to a minimum, as there will be
no switching of cows tail in the
milkman's eye, and the dull thud Of
cows hoof against the hired man
will be lost A few years hence old
gray-haired men will sit around and
tell how, when they were farming they
used to get up in the morning before
day light and go out and milk by hand
fifteen cows before breakfast, while
the younger generation will look on
and smile.
One of the drawbacks about milk
ing machine is the cost. This particu-
lar machine, aside from the gasoline
engine costs $3.50, which will deter
many from purchasing, but men who
run dairies or milk a great number OF
cows can soon get back the cost. A
boy can drive the cows up from the
field. put them in the barn, and with
the help of an older brother sister or
his mother. cam milk the entire herd
and turn them out again in a short
time. With a hundred such machines
scattered in and around Marshalltown
herds will be increased, as it has al
WAYS been a problem to get some one
to milk the cows, and then we could
have what we have always needed
a good creamery.
GEORGE F. THAYER-