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seemed highly advisable, especially as it is obvious that a satis- 

 factory machine would prove of great value to the industry, 

 that some scientific investigation should be made. 



The opportunity for such an investigation presented itself 

 last summer. The Lady Talbot Milk Institute, a charitable 

 organisation instituted for the special purpose of providing 

 infants with a pure milk supply from healthy, tuberculin tested 

 cows, has for the past two or three years secured its milk 

 from a farm where the milking is accomplished by the use of 

 the milking machine. This Institute expressed its desire to 

 have a comparative test of both methods made, the test to con- 

 tinue for the summer months, and offered every facility for 

 carrying out the tests. The farm being under the constant 

 supervision and immediate control of a Government dairy 

 supervisor the circumstances were such as to render possible 

 a complete comparative test of the two methods, the old and 

 the new, working side by side, and under the very best con- 

 ditions practicable. 



Farm and Herd. 



The following extracts from the report of the supervisor, Mr. 

 McAdam, as presented to the Institute, furnish a full ticcount of 

 the milking herd and the management thereof : — 



" The number of cows milked daily throughout the season 

 averaged 95, chiefly of the Ayrshire type, all having undergone 

 veterinary inspection and the tuberculin test at various times 

 since 20th December, 1910. They were kept in good condition, 

 well fed and groomed twice daily, stalled at nights, and during 

 the day turned out into an area of about 20 acres, leased in 

 connection with the farm as a run and exercise ground for the 

 cows. The cows were brought up into the bails clean, and in 

 a condition satisfactory for the supply of pure milk of the 

 standard required by the Board of Management for the In- 

 stitute." 



Food Supply. 



"The cows were fed mainly on fodder crops grown on the 

 farm, with the addition of bran and a limited quantity of 



