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Show THE MII.MMJ MAUini:. In i:urotesn countries the milkmaid hatbeeufora longtime thofivorite theme of bucollo larda and rural vcree-makira. vcree-makira. Wo are all familiar with the disaster which lefell "Kilty of Colrr-alne" Colrr-alne" when alio alumbhd and brokt. her i llcher wattling the plain Willi Ha laileal contt nta. That charming little ditty, ''Where are ou golntr, my nrttty fair inild." la nut entlrelv un known, nor are ievor.ll other ballads of aslmlUrklnd. lint all this poetry and sentiment about tho cunK milkmaid aud her cow are about to be knocked on the head. An Icouoclaatlo ricotchuiauhaa Invented a milking macbluc, and with one stroke of hla proaalc mechanical genius hat reduced the old poetlo pro-ts pro-ts of milking to im humdrum ar-rauKtment, ar-rauKtment, ll(rt ittno aa hoMIng a bucket of water from an ordinary well. Tho machine baa been Introduied lu thla couatry, The first ouo as ro- telvedat theChlcago custom-hous a f w da) i tijo. Tlmtaparlly la said to be thirty cows an hour, it la con-atruiled con-atruiled on the vacuum principle, anil when appllej tho milk flowa In a con-tlnttoua con-tlnttoua stream. Ithaa been lu ute In BcolhuJ for some time, aud Is ntld to b quite effective. Its price lu that country Is )U but Ihe dullts placed on It amount to $11, banco tho rlce litre can not bo less than $100. ltslutroduotlou In this country ill not disturb the pocleao much as In the old. Here tho milking Is more ur leas In the bauds of the sterner sex. Hut II will be effective In Ita way, for though It will have no poetry to displace, dis-place, It will almllsti lomethlng at prouounced In the way of pertplrallon, not to speak of profanity, and, after all, America nuy be fjreallj Indebted lothat blutTold Highlander for his Invention. |
