Show new milk system on federal farm plan promises to reduce cost of production and aid records irn pared bf by the id list dirtat st a 4 l I 1 A new blat m of milking cow cows which promises to reduce the cost anil and liber labor of milk production facilitate the be keeping of records and produce a cleaner sleaner product Is being used at the united untied states D pertinent of agri culture dairy experiment farm at t beltsville ltd the new method as originated by a R it graves craves who ll 11 in charge of dairy cattle feeding breeding and investigations ta in taa bu reau of dair dairy Indu industry mike make up of system briefly the tile system consists of a aill milking king unit of sta standard iti make alle but instead of the usual port vort able recel bacle fur for the milk it 13 draft dran n into a station stationery try container towed located between two stalls and soine ahat hat above abose the cows cos the remita tie ie 14 of unbreakable clua and Is s sun us from a w m igi kellne ing ruhan mechanism lam its transparency makes the rate ie of milking visible to the th operator at all times both by tie tl e amount of milk in the ilia receptacle and by the res reg by it tie e scale when the tile milk ceases tu to how flow into tie receptacle the lie of ol rotor records the of the milking and opens a valve witch wl ich per mits the milk to be drawn from the bottom of the container through a sanitary cant tary pipe line to a large 14 vacuum tank in the dairy house bearby thus the tile milk reail react i 3 the dairy houe A without I 1 acing come in contact with the air bunian hands or any oilier other agency no milk I 1 Is s I 1 palled 1 on it tie e floor to attract files tiles I 1 in n f fact act nil no enlik Is in III ault except that lu in the vacuum tight glass receptacle sele of tl ie e mechanical equipment Is lashed e and easily by running cold water from the dalraj d iari house hack through jhb th klie tile line the glass receptacle an i out of I 1 the teat cups culls into the toils gut cutter ter this Is followed by hot wa ter tel and then soeum labor heu red aed ed A redact ln in tabor labor Is effected with this syleem in a number of mays ays llie milk Is draun to tl it e dairy house and anti there Is no han allne of buckets or other milking utensils SilL nor Is it necessary to strip 1 the 11 e cows cow to fenish milking the udder 1 Is mass massaged ged atille the teat cua culls are still bill I 1 in place and the transparency of the ho glass receptacle reap lacle permits the operator to be shen hen the cow la Is CIT ing no more milk one operator can handle three or four milking units milking three cr or four cows at the same sanie time tests of the bacterial content of the milk produced under this new made by the tile division of market milk investigations tons have ahon bome re marl ably low lount oer a fie months 1 erld the average bacterial content ns as taken talen from the tile class glass con tal ners was 3 aca acio per cubic centt meter and fruin ruin the vacuum tank 3 per cut culic lc centimeter on tour four days of 0 this period tie tl e milk was wits pal in the vacuum tank at delree dereel 4 for SO minutes the tile average lacter lal count of the raw milk in tie tl e tank bedfor pasteurization was TM 0 and after pasteurization end c cooling cling ling it was BO 55 per cubic renti read meter indicating a very high em lency for pasteurization under this system |