The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-19
The Mechanical Cow Mixer

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thought OF those dissatisfied people
that sell those machines What a loss
IL has been to them. not only money.
but the disappointment OF not having
a machine they were satisfied with.
Now then the conditions in different
localities may have a great deal to do
with the machine not giving satisfac-
ton. A man may be situated SO that
he has all the efficient help that he
needs in his dairy. so that he does not
care to take care of a machine.
was amused at a little incident that
happened to me last winter, presume
the gentleman Is In the house here
today that asked the question. He
asked me IL would advise installing a
milking machine IL he had all the good
reliable steady mixers he needed and
they could be depended upon asked
where he would be able to procure such
help. WHY" be said, II have a fun
force at present and have a. big stack
OF applications, several inches high on
my desk now from young men asking
for positions" To say was surprised
would put IL mild. / did not know
what to say as II was a condition I
4 ~. Il
finally asked him how long he had
lived in North Dakota and he toIs me
two months. or course that settled fl,
but noticed in the leading dairy paper
either In June or July, the same gem
tlemans ad wanting barn men on the
dairy farm. so think he has the game
trouble that the rest OF us have.
Now the milking machine Is a new
departure and has been in use but a
short time and there In a chance for
an Improvement. We will take the
seif-binder for instance, I think II was
In the year Of 1876 they run the ex-
cursion from this city out TO the Del
rymple farm. They had seventeen self
binders in operation in one field. II
was the first public demonstration that
has been made in this part Of the
country. They were all in the field
when we arrived. and we stayed there
two hours watching the machine. and
do not think that i'm that two hours
there were more than six OF the sev
enteen running at the same time. They
had five or six expert operators mount
ed on quarter horses. two saddle bags
full Of tools and extras, and I tell Won
gentlemen, IL there was anyone in the
world who worked IL was those experts
TO keep those binders going. Did the
farmers condemn the machines? No.
they pronounced them a success.
The milking machine may be con-
| demned, gentlemen, but 1t Is the .onlv
thing to make large dairies practical
In North Dakota. You cannot get the
help that is needed to milk a large
bunch OF cows. You take the average
man that works on the farm, he does
| not like TO milk cows and if you COM
| pei him to against his will he Is not
! going to give you satisfactory, work
He will get the COWS to kicking and
kick the milk over, get the cows teats
sore SO that YOU may lose by IL. That
is why say you get more milk and
more cream with the mechanical milk
err than by hand milking, especially
where you depend on that kind of help
/ had several kickers in my bunch
when he started the milking machine
but they are all over IL now. Cows
| take to the machine kindly and seem
to enjoy 1T. 1t will milk an easy-milk-
Ing COW quicker and a hard-milkfng
cow easier than by hand, and for
breaking in young heifers to milk IL is
certainly a capital thing.
II any OF you have tried to break
in a young heifer when she first fresh
ems you know what a slow tedious Job
1t is. The machine is very durable
We have had it in operation nearly
four years, and had scarcely no new
pieces except the rubber mouth pieces.
which get large SO we have to renew
them from time to time
We are using the BurrelI Lawrence
& Kennedy cow-milker, which is made
in New York. We have three machines
and run them with a three horsepower
gasoline engine. 1t cost us just $500
TO install the plant without the engine.
The same engine runs the milking ma
chine that runs the cream separator.
churn and pumps all the water for the
stock. 1t is located $50 feet from the
barn. Now the milking machine makes
milking q different proposition. You
do not dread the work so much, when
you know you have a machine to take
off the bulk of the work, you have n
different feeling. We go over the
cows and strip them to see if the ma
chine has done complete job.
IL you have more milking than you
can do yourself, my advice is. 20 in
stall mixer and you win have some
help that you can depend upon every
day In the year.