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MILKING MACHINES THAT DO MILK. 
Milking machines that actually milk 
have not been much in evidence in north¬ 
eastern Ohio until recently. In some 
way the cow and the machine did not. 
get on very familiar terms, and the 
former never mistook the other to the 
extent of adopting it as her calf, and 
that is the relation that must exist be¬ 
tween the cow and milker, whether a 
combination pump, or a human. Many 
kinds of machines were introduced, but 
their days were few and not to be de¬ 
sired. Still the call for a simple, effec¬ 
tual milking machine was not lessened, 
for the labor drought increased, and good 
milkers became less and less in number. 
Many dairies were cut down in numbers 
until the actual farm family could per¬ 
form the labor. The trouble seemed to 
be with all of the machines, too much 
mechanism, tubing, failure to get the 
regular pulsating pull in extracting the 
milk, and in some way not milking out 
the cow anywhere “clean,” necessitating 
much hand milking to complete the opera¬ 
tion, which meant cows getting “fin¬ 
icky,” half giving down their milk, and 
later disgust with the whole thing, and 
returning to hand milking. 
With the advent into public view of 
the Geauga County, O., Breeding Com¬ 
munity, with its cows that were actually 
giving from 10 to 14 tons each of milk 
per year, came the introduction of a yet 
later milking machine, so simple in con¬ 
struction and dispensing with so much 
mechanism, that they have become very 
common hereabouts with both large and 
small dairies, regardless of “community” 
ownership, and on much inquiry I find 
they are giving satisfaction, and none 
has been given up or returned. As said 
by a neighbor the other day, with his 
50 big Holstein cows, after six months’ 
trial: “I shall not go back to hand 
milking. It milks better than we can! 
The little engine broke a part two weeks 
ago, and we had to hand-milk three days, 
and the cows shrank 90 pounds, and 
when machine milking was started again, 
the cows came back to the old notch in 
five milkings!” 
The other afternoon I went across to 
see neighbor Cooley milk his 30 head of 
Ilolsteins. lie has had this machine 
nearly a year, and one man now does the 
milking, instead of three milkers. It so 
happened that all were gone away except 
an 18-year-old boy, who said “They won’t 
be home till late, but I do the milking,” 
and soon he had the cows in their stalls, 
and the meal sprinkled. Then he got out 
four milking machines, started the en¬ 
gine, set the pails, attached the machines 
each just four milking cups, with eight 
inches of tubing to reach the pail, then a 
connection that worked the little pump 
at the base of the teat cups, and 
instantly the milk began to flow into the 
open cup in regular pulsations, then 
hand-like reaching up onto the udder 
for another stream. This boy was now 
milking four cows at a time. As fast 
as a cow was milked he put the machine 
at work on the next cow, took the milk 
to the cooler, and so on until the two 
long stables of cows were milked. No 
hand stripping was done. Not a cow 
resented the innovation or lifted a foot, 
only to “hist” over to have the machine 
attached. When he came to a hard milk¬ 
ing cow, the boy put a smaller-orificed 
ring into the cup, and the operation of 
milk drawing was perfect. One big cow 
that gives about 00 pounds of milk a day, 
and milks so hard that it takes 20 
minutes of hand milking to get it, was 
as cleanly milked in seven with the ma¬ 
chine. “You see,” said the boy, “if you 
milk a hard cow with the common-sized 
ring, it pulls the teat down into the cup 
so far that it cuts off the flow. It can’t 
do that with the smaller ring.” Some 
young heifers were milked without show 
of uneasiness, and an old “kicker,” 
bought cheap because she did kick hard 
and much, has never raised her foot 
when milked with the machine, and 
that from the start. The boy had now 
milked the herd in less than 50 minutes, 
and cooled the milk ready to bottle. 
“IIow much milk have you left in the 
udders, do you suppose?” Well, strip¬ 
ping the herd, the first cows now having 
been milked over 50 minutes, showed 
about nine pounds, a result that would 
have followed hand mHRlng. “Oh yes,” 
continued the boy, “now and then a cow 
gets balky, but she will be all right the 
next time, and gives down as well as 
ever.” 
Then the engine was stopped, and the 
milking cups and short connecting tubes 
taken to the pump and water forced 
through them, and then well rinsed, then 
thrown, cups and all, into a small bucket 
of weak brine for the night. Next day 
they would be given a more thorough 
washing, and then returned to the brine 
bath. “You see,” said the boy, “we have 
a six horse-power gas engine. It wants 
a steady motion, one that does not vary, 
and the little engine would run fast and 
slow. That’s part of the secret in ma¬ 
chine milking, a steady pull. Then this 
engine runs the farm water works pump, 
the silage cutter and farm machinery, be¬ 
sides the generator and milking ma¬ 
chines, and we don’t have to crowd it 
to get power.” Then he disconnected 
the long milking shaft rod from the en¬ 
gine, and touched a switch, and instantly 
the barn was ablaze with 15 electric light 
bulbs. 
“Didn’t you notice this generator?” 
said the boy. “When I was milking, the 
engine was turning this generator, send¬ 
ing ‘juice’ up into the storage battery, 
and we light up the whole place, house 
and all.” 
Well, what had we to say? Here was 
a boy milking 30 cows alone, and doing 
it week after week, and not a complaint. 
We went home, and began to call up the 
others, who had like machines. Every¬ 
one was satisfied and would not have 
them taken out under any consideration. 
“IIow does your milk stand in the 
market as to germs, and such like 
jcopardizers of the public health?” 
“No complaints from the health board.” 
“What criticism have you got to enter 
against the milker?” 
“None, only that I ought to have had 
it 10 years ago. It needs to be rightly 
managed and kept in working order, the 
same as any mechanism, but it is rare 
to have a working part go wrong.” 
Ohio. JOHN GOULD. 
“When I was once in danger from a 
lion,” said an old African explorer, “I 
tried sitting down and staring at him, 
as I had po weapons.” “How did it 
work?” asked his companion. “Perfect¬ 
ly ! The lion did not offer to touch me.” 
“Strange! IIow do you account for it?” 
“Well, sometimes I have thought it was 
because I sat down on a high branch of 
a very tall tree.”—Melbourne Australa¬ 
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