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Show ! FAST MILKING BY MACHINES Problem la Long Way From Being Satisfactorily Sat-isfactorily Solvsd High Claaa of Help la Necessary. a The problem of milking by meana ot machines Is still a long way from being be-ing solved, but we are much nearer tps goal than five years ago. or eves frtS. "yi toa ram ud Fire- Tbe New York experiment station baa announced the result of a milking machine experiment which covered a period of four yeara. The experiments show that. Including the time required to get the machlnea ready and to waab them after milking, cows can be milked milk-ed by machine In 3.83 minutes to tbe cow, aa compared with seven minutes for band milking. A higher claaa of help la, however, neceasary to milk by machinery. For dairies of leas than fifteen cows the use of machines waa conaldered unprofitable and not to be recommended. recommend-ed. Tbe bundreda of applications filed la the t'nlted Htates patent office show the Interest In machine milking. Present Pres-ent day developmenta Indicate that best results are obtained by the Intermittent Inter-mittent suction principle, but we look for the time when milking machines will be cheaper and simpler. Tha cream separator of today is about one-i one-i fourth aa large aa one of equal capacity capaci-ty twenty years ago. A almllar simplification sim-plification may be tnie with milking machlnea. i |