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MILKING MACHINES. 
PART II.—EFFECT UPON MILK YIELD. 
Se Ce a BRA CH. 
TABLE 36, 
HAND AND MacHINE MILKING. 



Yield of Milk in Successive Periods of 7 Days. 
' Period I Period II Penodsl il 
No. of Cows | Hand Milking | Machine Milking | Hand Milking 
rs 10 OO Zouk Fe 803.9 oles 
10 Shlat 834.1 836.6 
9 Ones 704.0 707.9 
+ 488.6 472.7 481.2 
fe 33 . 3050. 1 2814.7 2937 .0 



Milk yield .77 pound per cow per day less in Period IT. 

TABLE 36. —When milked by hand, thirty-three cows gave 
2993.5 pounds of milk in seven days. The yield of the same 
cows when milked with the machine was 2814.7 pounds in 
seven days. The yield from machine milking was 178.8 
pounds less in the seven days than from hand milking, or 
about (.77 pound) three-fourths pound less per cow per day. 
* All the cows in the herd, even those not milked with machines 
made a considerable shrinkage in milk yield. 
