| Show improvement MADE IN MILK MACHINES the present day milking machines machined are such an improvement over the old time machines that they may now be considered beyond the experimental stage at when liben first brat put on the market they naturally had bad a number of 0 serious imperfections these have been almost entirely overcome by the inventive ingenuity of 0 man so BO that today it may safely be said that the in most ost modern of them are a success the two chief stumbling blocks were keeping the machine clean and avoiding injury to the udder of the cow it Is true that in the hands of a careless operator they are still subject to criticism along these binea ines but it la Is the fault of the operator and not of the machine it will no doubt always require more IntellI intelligence geace and judgment to operate them than Is generally displayed by a large percentage of our hand it would be difficult to foretell what the future has in store tor for the dairyman m an with the milking machine to do hla his milking nevertheless the most difficult problem that of hired help should hould be at least partially solved if there Is any agy one drawback to dairy farming it la Is this one of keeping competent and reliable help all other irksome farm operations seem to have hava been benefited by mechanical invention but milking the most despised of them all seems either to have been neglected or to have been the more difficult to solve men hate the monotony and regularity of hand milk ing perhaps mechanical milking should prove more popular as a the amount of time and physical exertion eiert lon la Is greatly de decreased creased already a great many have been installed in some of our best beat dairies and success there Is being watched with much interest by farmer dairymen ff E dvorachek colorado agricultural college |
