Show milk system 0 on n federal farm plan promises to re reduce luce cost of production and aid records prepared by t the h e U united n 1 t ed s state t ares Donart department ment ot 0 f A g ra e u atu r u A new system ot of hilll nill ln wars which promises to reduce the cost and labor of milk production facilitate the keeping of records and produce 11 cleaner pro product prod dut iut Is being used sit at tin united states department of 0 agriculture dairy experiment tarm farm 0 beltsville md the new rai method ethod was originated by R R graves who is in charae of dairy entile cattle seeding feeding breeding and management investigations in the bu reau ot of dairy industry makeup make up of system briefly the system consists of a mechanical milking unit ot of standard make but instead of the usual portable receptacle for the milk it Is drawn into a stationary container to lo bated between two stalls and some what above the cows the cle Is ot of unbreakable glass und and la Is sus derided from froin a neigh weighing neighing ing mechanism its transparency makes the rate of milking visible to the operator tor at all times both by the amount of milk in the receptacle and by the weight rog reg by the scale when the milk ceases to flow into the receptacle the lie operator records the weight of tile milking and opens a valve which per mils the milk to be drawn from the bottom of the container through a sanitary pipe line to a largo large vacuum tank in tire the dairy bouse nearby thus the milk reaches the dairy house without having come in contact with the air human ban hands or any other contaminating agency no milk la Is spilled on the floor to attract flies in fa fact t no milk Is in sight except that to in the daou vacuum ati tight lit receptacle S u a the eal equipment Is accomplished quickly rind and easily by running cold writer water from the dairy house back bach through gil lie ile pipe line the glass receptacle rind out of the tent cupy cups into the kutter gutter this Is followed by liot hot wa ter and then steam labor reduced A reduction in labor Is ef ecter alth A ith tills system in a number tru rober ot of ways the milk Is drawn to the dairy howe houst automatically rind e Is no n 0 handling harl of buckets or other milking utensils nor Is it necessary to strip tile the cows to finish milking the udder is massaged chile the tha teat cups culis are still in place and the transparency of the glass receptacle permits tile the operator to see when the cow is riving no more milk one operator can handle three or four milking units I 1 milking king three or four cows at the same time tests of the bacterial content of the nille produced under this new system ninde made by tile the division of market milk investigations have shown some remarkably mar illar kably low counts over a five months period the average bacterial content as taken from the glass con gainers ta iners was per cubic centimeter and from the va vacuum cullin tank per cubic centimeter on four days of tills this period the wilk milk was pas in the vacuum tank at ll 11 i degrees for 2 SO 30 minutes the average bacterial count of the raw milk in the tank before pasteurization was vas and after pasteurization and cooling it was 55 per cubic centimeter indicating a very high edl clency tor for pasteurization under chiz tin s system |