| Show NEW MILKING MACHINE POPULAR IN SWEDEN simple contrivance that Is within reach of even smallest dairy farmer and easily put into place by ernest Ho ollett while in sweden some time since I 1 heard much of a new milking ma chine that was to be within the reach of even the smallest dairy farmer as regards cost and easy method of in on any arm I 1 had how ever to leave sweden without being able to see the machine during the past faw weeks my wife being again in sweden was through the courtesy of mr frykberg director of the manu factory where the milking machine was built allowed to see it at work the machine Is very simply built there is i ot the necessity to lay down plant to supply the motive power as this Is done entirely by band a great saving in primary installment in fact this has been reduced to a mini mum of expense the inviting indi ting machine proper Is suspended by means of two broad straps one just behind the eh over the loin ot the cow teats are milked simultaneously or the valves can be shut off to allow 0 milk ing cows that have lost one or more quarters it Is particularly clean in its stripping action the power re quiren if about one thirtieth horse power or a man can easily supply but I 1 energy the milking machine Is essentially a modern contrivance something 0 the kind seems to have been invented in america in about 1819 but no de ot it Is extant that we know of about the middle 0 last century several machines were constructed to milk cows but they do not appear to have met with much success and were neglected and forgotten many dairy farmers however hankered after a mechanical device 0 this jiing and experimentation went on for many years most ot those engaged in it had as their root idea a milk tube inserted into the teats of the cow and a of this kind was placed on the market the new swedish milking machine there Is the usual vacuum vessel tor holding the milk this was very easy detachment suction or rather in this case the result Is obtained by compression the teat being inserted in a cup like receptacle one side of which actuated by a piston allows the teat to fill and then presses it much after the method of the human fingers all four in 1878 this consisted ol 01 a tube having openings along its sides through which the milk entered bach teat was fitted with a tube and the tubes were kept together by a flexible band there Is no need fo describing it in detail because although milk could be extracted by its means it ft as not a really practical invention |
