562 



] fliirual of AgricuUurc 



[lo Sept., 1909. 



The milking and feeding slieds are separate as shown in the illustra- 

 tions on pages 559 and 560. The roofs are so constructed as to allow 

 the morning sun to ha\e full play intO' them. In both cases the floor.s 

 are well bricked and impervious with a sufficient fall to carry off the 

 drainage. The milking shed contains 12 double bails, each bail being 

 6 ft. 6 in. in width, thus allowing 24 cows to be bailed up at one time. 



When the first batch is milked a door is opened at the head of the 

 bail, through which the cows move directlv across a small passage into 

 the feeding shed, exactly the same size as the milking shed. Another 

 batch of 24 cows is bailed up in the milking shed, and by the time this 

 batch, is milked, the original 24 have had their feed, and are passed out 

 through the door at the head of the bail, into the paddock. The second 

 batch then occupies the feeding shed until a third batch is milked and 

 rt-ndv to he fed. 



8. THE MILKING SUED, WITH L.K.G. MACHINES IN OPERATION. 



When tho photo<;rai)li was taken, the three bo.vs in the foreground were uiideruniny ;i fortniuht's 

 iastruction in cleanliness iind sanitation l>y Mr. W, II. Clowes, Dairx Sniierviso:-, who is standing'- in the 

 baekj;rQund. 



The advantages of a separate feeding shed are manv. In the iirst 

 place, it enables a large number of cows to be milked in a comparati\elv 

 small shed, as there is continuity of operations, one batch after another 

 being milked and fed without any inconvenience. Another advantage is 

 that the cows are less excited when milked without being fed, and let 

 down their milk better. A further great advantage in con- 

 nexion witli the main object of a pure and wholesome milk supply, is that 

 there is no smell to taint the milk, .\\m\ consequentlv nothing to attract 

 flies in the milking shed, as the flies follow the feed. The bins in the 

 feeding shed are so constructed that the cows cannot waste their food. 



Water is laid on at different points throughout the two sheds, and the 

 sv.stem of cleaning and construction is such that there is an entire ab.sence 

 of the obnoxious odours present in the large m.ijority of milking sheds in 

 general use. The cows droj^pings are removed after each shed is milked- 



