CHAPTER XXI 



MILKING MACHINES 



The outraged cow went forth and joined 

 The herd among the greenery: 

 "What d'ye think they did just now? 



They milked me by machinery!" 

 —The Khan. 



rpHE ingenuity of man is such that the day will 

 -*■ shortly come when there will be a milking 

 machine that will do the work effectively, preserve 

 the quality of the milk, and not be too complicated 

 or expensive. Any machines we have seen tried 

 have not proved entirely successful. It seemed 

 impossible to keep the tubing perfectly clean, and 

 the milk became contaminated. There was more 

 or less trouble in the management of the machines. 

 As for their milking qualities, heifers not accus- 

 tomed to hand milking apparently did equally well 

 when milked by a machine. The old cows de- 

 creased in their milk-flow, and some objected to 

 the method and would not let down their milk 

 at all. 



When the machine is perfected it will be the 

 ideal way of taking the milk; when passing through 

 tubes into the covered pails the milk escapes con- 

 tact with unclean hands and atmospheric im- 



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