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Show MACHINE AND HAND MILKING Flow of Milk Not Appreciably De-cressed De-cressed by Use of Modern DevicesCheaper De-vicesCheaper and Cleaner. From experiments with milking machines ma-chines conducted for nine years by tho agricultural experiment farm of New South Wales, it was found that tho flow of milk is not appreciably do-creased do-creased when machine milking Is sub-stltutetd sub-stltutetd for hand milking, except in Isolated cases, and that the period of lactation is not shortened or subsequent subse-quent periods of lactation adversely affected In any way. Cows that had been mliked by machine continuously for five years apparently did not do- v Metal Pall Rest. crease In the annual yield of milk. The percentage ot solids In the milk remained the same as with hand milking, and the cows were no more subject to udder troubles. Machine milking was much cheaper and cleaner clean-er when the machines were properly cared for and run by a capable oper-a oper-a tor. The Illustration shows a metal frame on which milk palls can bo placed while In the stable to keep them out of tho dirt. |