| Show A NEW MILKING MACHINE milka cows advantageously to themselves and MU drinkers london oa on the farm of 0 raining haining maine on the estate of 0 the duke of portland for some past a new now milking r machine ns chine invented by mr william bland sanitary engineer of kilmarnock bag has been in operation the apparatus as installed at I 1 lain ing mains Is of a vey vesy simple character te r an ordinary iron pipe on one 0 loch inch in diameter is carried round the coir cow LOUBO house at a convenient height beight above the tle shoulders of the cows it communicates muni cates with a hy by the sirls air is drawn from the pipe a circular tank connected with a shallow well of 0 water serving as a regulator of the vacuum prom abe iron pipe project connections one opposite the space pace between every pair ot of animals each ach connection being famished furnished with a stop cock to any one of these connections is fitted a le length nath of india rubber t tubing u bin g I 1 ile other end being att attached t a ched to a nozzle 1 near the top of th the e milk pail which is of special construction st the pail is cylindrical in form with a truncated conical top its opening which is four inches wide is closed by means of a thick glass glaes disk which rests inside flash with the outer rim ot of the pail supported by a thick rubber band held a projecting ledge underneath th on n one side of the shoulder I 1 of f the pail is the nozzle which has been referred rel erred t to and on the opposite bi side do are four similar es all 0 of L which are like the email small connections upon n t the ibe iron pipe the solitary nozzle le is for attachment to the tho long fixable tube from the iron pipe pip abe other othir tour four are of short lengths of tubo tube ing connected in their turn with specially constructed teat cups each of which receives a teat of the cow under operation the cups like the pails are made of tinned capsar iron on and each one is provided with a tap or ato stop p cock the milk pail pill has in addition to its bandler band lea couple of books by y means of which it is suspended a little atle in front of the cows udder a broad band of girting being laid across the animals loins for the purpose the modus operand operandi is very ampie when all is ready the pump I 1 is worked b by a lad and ad the air 1 is in thus e exhausted 1 austed from the iron pipe then a pail with its ita cups attached is adjusted under the coar cow tb abe aanen long tube is joined to one of the co connections overhead the ie stop cock Is opened and a partial 1 vacuum is established within the pail next one of the cups is moistened and placed so as to a teat test the stop cock of the cup is then opened the teat is thus brought under the influence influence of brok the vacuum and nd the greater external I 1 atmospheric pressure at once causes the milk to begin to flow after all four cups have thus been adjusted I 1 tour 0 ur jets ps of milk can be seen flowing into the can immediately beneath t he glass cover in from eight to ten min minutes tea the cow is milked idov dry the animals submit very quietly to this novel method of milking and after the first time they appear to be scarcely conscious that they frebe are being deprived of their milk the apparatus pa ratus indeed pro promises to relie relieve ve cows of much c of the distress which under existing circumstances seems inevitable its use will obviate the i excruciating pain that animals with chapped or swollen teats most feces badly suffer when milked b by y hand moreover its amplo employment ment will insure much greater cleanliness cleanliness if in the 0 operation ion of milking a benefit of at least as much importance I 1 mp ortance to the consumer as to the producer one attendant can conveniently keep bait halt a dozen cows going by th abe time the adjustment has beon been made for the 1 th cow the first cow will about have finished milking and her pail can ba be taken for the seventh cowand soon BO oo 00 to maintain vacuum a strokes artlie at the pump occasionally are sufficient clent |
