Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-19
MILKING COWS
 BfY BY MACHINERY
 AB|G SUCCESS
Electrical Device On Large New
 Mexico Dairy Coaxes the
 Lacteal Fluid With Neatness and Dispatch.
lAlbuquerque Ioufnal.l


 There is 10 more ingenious modern mechanical '.evice now fn ise than the electrical sactim mixer vnici has been introduced into New Mexico by T. ]. Mathew, who is associated with Mir Martin Sehaadt in the manage ment of the new Mathew Jersey dairy -on the extension of North Fourth street A visit by Morning Journai representative to the dairy yesterday revealed the fact that this city nov has modern sanitary plant which compares favorably with the best con -cerns in the east That the mechani- cal milker Is an unqualified success. and from a sanitary point of view and especially far superior to milking by hand has been fully demonstrated here. It is worth any mans whiie to step into the plant about o'cIoek D. m. and see the novel spectacle of twenty-four sleek Jerseys carefully curried and with uddefs freshly wash ed, quietly feeding i'll two long rows in a dust-proof. cement-fioored spot less milking shed. while two rows oI big milk buckets are being rapidly and almost noiselessiy filled with no one in evidence save two attendants, dressed in spotless white uniforms, who adjust the milking machines anu remove the buckets as they are filled. Piping extends along each side of the building with valves to each staH to which the individual milking machines are attached by short rubber hose. A quadruple smaller hose extends from the bucket to the cows udder, to which it is easily and quickly attach ed. A strong pulsating suction, prc- duced by an electric air pump in an other building. draws the milk easily and rapidly into the closed paten, bucket which it enters through short glass tube.
 Two dozen cows are milked in hai1 an hour, 120 cows being milked in re- lays at this dairy. Toe cows are care fully curried and udders washed nl tho sanitary feeding sheds just be fore entering the milking sheds. Al ter they are milkej, the milking sheos are flushed out thoroug;iisl with-a hosss' and the greatest possible cleanliness thus secured. After use. the milking machines are washed ggith cold waIs, and brushes, then fiyIShed with hoI water, then with sal soda 50. I5iOEi. and are kept immersed in l'me wat CT while net in use. The buckets witn connecting apparatus are most ihgen ious coutrivances and the system was selected by Mir Mathew after care fu, inspection of the late7; dairyine methods in the e1sN The machines work so smoothl and naturally thas the cows g've no sign of uneasiness and are mucf. mcre ;fGctable than when mixed b- faGd The p.tent 1s owned by the BuTreIl-a.awrence-S nedy company.
 The rlil7 Is carried i.i the air light buckets up an outside stairway, dump ed into a receiver. which takes 1t into a hHge can near the ceeiiiae of the ce- Inent-f1oored milk room. Thence IL passes into tank which is coofeu by $ continuous stream of cold wat CT. The nilk thep ;Ins into another ta7k whence it flows into the bottles. The milk is not handed at all from thc tim. tbe milk brckets are enptiea. MIX is diverted to a separator from the cooling tank as desired, this dairy doing quite large cream business.
 When the bottles are returned tley are cleaned in boiling water with 3 revolving brush, Tinssd ard then su- perheated by jets ef steam which squirt inside the bottles. The clean ing is as near absolute as possible ana in fact the whole arrangement rep resents the perfection of sanitary sci cree as applied to aeirying. T.le pos s;hie bacteria content is reduced to the gery minimum and it Is difficult to see how further precautions could be devised
 The new plant rot including the stock. represents an outlay of over s1e.s6o.. said Mir Mathew last even ing. ~and we are not through yet 4 car of lumber has arrived for the construction of another milking shed, an additional feeding shed. and 2 shelter shed, besides other additions
 The whole plant covers about eigh' acres. there being at present beslue the main office and bottling building four feeding sheds one milking shea and other buildings, the whole outfit, including pastures for the cows, GOV eri.g eight acres of ground.
 n have been studying tae sanitary dairy proposition for great many wears in Albuquerque, said Mr. Mat hcw. land believe Mir. Schaadt and now have come as near achieving perfectly germ proof establishment here