Fig. 1 — Rapid milking 

 techniques save the 

 dairy farmer much val- 

 uable time in doing his 

 chores. 



were removed at the end of four 

 minutes. All cows were hand strip- 

 ped and the stoppings weighed. 

 Twenty cows were well milked out 

 in four minutes, but eight were not 

 completely milked. The next day the 

 cows were rearranged so that the 

 eight problem cows could be milked 

 last. The machines were again re- 

 moved from 20 cows in four minutes 

 and the eight problem cows were then 

 given special attention in prepara- 

 tion. The machines were removed in 

 five minutes. Hand stripping reveal- 

 ed that all but three cows had milked 

 out satisfactorily; thus, in this string 

 of 28 "slow" milkers, there were 

 only three real problem cows. 



H. C. WOODWORTH, 



K. S. Morrow, F. E. Allen, 

 L. W. Slanetz, and 

 Earl Elliott 



The New Hampshire Silage Cart 

 Saves the Dairy Farmer's Time. The 

 New Hampshire silage cart illustra- 

 ted in Fig. 2 distributes silage or 

 chopped hay directly into the man- 



ger. This is done by means of a 

 wide belt in the bottom of the cart 

 which is turned by a hand crank as 

 the cart is pushed along in front 

 of the cows. A spindle on the inside 

 breaks up the tendency for silage or 

 hay to bridge over. It can be used 

 to shake the feed down to the moving 

 belt. The spindle also takes some 

 of the weight off the moving belt at 

 the bottom. 



The door at the side is swung in 

 and fastened when the cart is being 

 loaded. Just before the cart is un- 

 loaded the door is swung out. This 

 tends to release the weight and pres- 

 sure on the wide belt so that the 

 silage can be turned out easily. Ap- 

 proximately one minute is required 

 to unload sufficient silage or chopped 

 hay for 20 cows. 



This cart was made in connection 

 with a New Hampshire Agricultural 

 Experiment Station project under- 

 taken two years ago to study effici- 

 ency of chore practices in dairy 

 barns. The cart is an adaptation of 

 carts used by beef cattle feeders in 



