The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1962-04-05

The goth Century system of milking consists
of either a two-cow. four-coW a sX-cow milk
ing parlOr together with a Zero T-20 Vacuum
Refrigerated Bulk Milk Tank placed in milk
house according to Zero's carefully developed
plan.
Unfortunately dairymen are not paid in pro-
portion to the service they render. AS class,
they do not receive the income to which they are
entitled to maintain proper standard of living.
As result of this low pay rate, many dairymen
have gone and others now going out of bust
ness Those who remain increasing their
herds to produce more milk, in an effort to in
crease incomes But nothing is gained unless
milk can be produced with less labor and
at lower cost 1t is the purpose of this article to
present system through which lower cost of
milk production may be attained and regardless
of herd size. you have automation without
costly and complicated special pumps, gadgets,
etc.
The two-cow paror described herein is To-
Gated on the Laurel Run Farm operated by David
j, Beilcr, GrantSville, Md.
This is an attempt to present in concise
important and essential features of a
Revolutionary, New, Unique, Aircurtain, Cow
to Tank, Compact, Doube-Walled, milking parlor
arrangement which offers the MAXIMUM in
Sanitation Automation, Efficiency, Speed, Econo-
my, and Comfort, whereby the milk goes to the
refrigerated Zero tank the quickest and with less
turbulence while the milk is exposed to the least
amount of equipment of any paror system
All this is engineered into the system in the
right proportion to each component to do the
best possible JOY of milking and at MINI
MUM COST to the farmer of any milking system
yet devised by man.
For the housewife to receive high quality
milk products at reasonable prices efficiency
and sanitation of the milk plant operation must
start at the source of supply-the dairy farmer
and paror does just that, As to the
efficiency, our construction is rectangular in
shape 18 #. in. by 20 # milking area: holding
is concrete floored 20 by 50 # covered and
lighted As to durability, we have used concrete
blocks glazed tile, glass brick windows, electric
wiring is u. F. cable and conduit, water pipes
copper and the parlor stalls are steel 1t
takes only 100 watts to well light the milking
area one 40 watt fluorescent strip above each
udder door and 20 watt strip over the wash
vat We put color to work for the glazed tile
are yellow and the cement board ceiling is painted
light green and the steel stalls painted alumni
num- This is a combination of warm and cool
coors and makes the entire room sunshine
bright and is also the most compatible to human
behavior. The daryman doesn't stoOp or squat
nor carry and lift. He works in complete comfort
and cheerful surroundings and a comfortable
man does better job of milking.
The two mixer claws, metering devices bulk
tank and after milking clean up devices are all
operated by p h. p motor vacuum pump
which is located in the attic above the milk room
The washing cycle is controlled by the timer that
is located the end of the bulk tank and con-
trolls the washing for all the equipment. The only
time Dairyman Boiler has his hands wet is when
he washes the cows udders. The only thing left
for him to do in the cleanup is two minutes with
hose flushing out the stalls after milking. The
large reserve vacuum in tank gives more uniform
milking pulsaton. Ratio of IL at 81 per min
ute) Also by arrangement with two gauges,
vacuum regulators and valves there is high
vacuum ~ IN at the milking claw ana low
vacuum C13 in at the tank which pulls the milk.
BY using soft natural rubber small bore infla-
ton liners with split vacuum you get relief
from constant vacuum, claws won't crawl up,
which reduces irritation thus helping to prevent
maStitiS We do this with any mixer claw
on the market and only one vacuum
pump.
Strong support for our position that lower
vacuum is better for udder health comes from
the U. S. Dept of Ayr. in bulletin 992 published
in August, 1949.
The feed to COWS is gravity flow and there
isn't any dust, noise complicated mechanics
involved The feeding devices all in the
scaled stall with the except the hand crank.
A tWo-ton bulk feed bin is over each cows head
and the bin is filled by air suspension by the
custom feed grinder of the area
In the event of a power failure, this farmer
can pull his tractor up outside and hook up to
its exhaust manifold and battery to the outside
vacuum line d. c. wiring emergency system and
90 right on milking with plenty of light and
vacuum, to do his clean up.
With or without electric power there is lit
in milking position stand uddCr to udder over
pull chain type CRATE covered stump. Only one is
needed for the two cows Hand operated feed
crankS are at both ends (16 #. apart at the
cows head.
A shed the same width as the parlor, par
titioned off the center part holding area
and left alley down each side for the MIXED
cows to return to the feeding barn. The COWS are
brought into the milking parlor by a mechanical
squeeze gate which operates a battery and
generator that is hooked up the belt of the
vacuum pump motor When the COW comes
ing position This eliminates the pulling of ropes
and waiting for the cows to come down long
aisle before they reach the stalls Only when the
cows are back to back are their udders within