MACHINE MILKIXG DOES XOT AFFECT MILK FLOW.* 



F. H. HALL. 



The dairy industry of today needs the milk- 

 Milking ing machine. In dairying, as in other lines of 

 machines merit farming, the labor problem is difficult of solu- 

 attention. tion ; and herd owners would welcome gladly 



an economical, efficient machine that would 

 enable them to milk their cows with fewer men or permit an in- 

 crease in the size of the herds without adding to the labor pay-roll. 

 Inventors and manufacturers realize this need and have tried 

 to meet it by putting on the market milkers of many makes and 

 types. Some of these machines have now reached an advanced 

 stage of mechanical perfection, so that they really milk cows 

 easily, rapidly and completely. But before any of these machines 

 can be pronounced an unqualified success it must receive long, 

 careful trial and be studied from different standpoints. 



In anv factorv a new machine, to secure at- 



Pure milk a prime tention, must promise economy in labor 



consideration. without material lowering of quality. In 



some cases the machine-made product may 

 not be quite so good as the hand-made article it replaces, but the 

 cost reduction be great enoug'h to more than counterbalance the 

 slight falling off in quality; and the machine is installed. In the 

 dairy, however, quality is the essential consideration. With the 

 present day demand for clean, sweet, healthful milk, any mechani- 

 cal device whose use increased the numbers of bacteria in the milk 

 produced would not be generally used however efficient and 

 economical it might be in milking the cows. This was a serious 



* A reprint of " Popular Edition" of Bulletin No. 353; see page 57 for the 



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