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Show FAST MILKING BY MACHINES Problem Is Long Way From Being Satisfactorily Sat-isfactorily Solved High Class of Help la Necessary. . The problem of milking by means of machines is still a long way from being be-ing solved, but we are much nearer the goal than five years ago, or even a year ago, says the Farm aud Fireside. Fire-side. The New York experiment station has announced the result of a milking machine experiment which covered a period of four years. The experiments show that, including the time required to get the machines ready and to wash them after milking, cows can be milked milk-ed by machine in 3.8G minutes to tha cow., as compared "with seven minutes for hVnd milking. A higher class of help is, however, necessary to milk by machinery. For dairies of less than fifteen cows the use of machines was considered unprofitable and not to be recommended. recommend-ed. The hundreds of applications filed In the United States patent office show the interest in machine milking. Present Pres-ent day developments Indicate that best results are obtained by the intermittent inter-mittent suction principle, but w look for the time when milking machine will be cheaper and simpler. Tha cream separator of today Is about one-fourth one-fourth ai large as one of equal capacity capaci-ty twenty years ago. A similar simplification sim-plification may be true with milking machines. |