On all the largest and most of the smaller farms all cows are milked by machinery. This process in the cleanest and quickest method, it ensures absolute cleanliness since the hand docs not touch the cow and the milk passes straight from the cow to the separator. Tt is also much easier on the cow than milking by hand. The machines will milk from two to 20 or more cows at one time though usually the number milked at once is from four to eight, The machines are fitted with sets of four suction tubes and the pul sations are so gentle and even that where cows are so tender they ea not be milked by hand th perfectly quiet under the of the machi The milk is into a nickel plated pipe which the entire length of the shed through a separating wall into the Milk tank and from there through the separator.
The cream is run into large metal containers with firmly attached covers whilst the skim milk is pumped away to a distance and there fed to the pigs.
It is strange to see this complete cleetrie apparatus far away from any house right out in an open field.
There is a hot water tank in the separator room and on the turning of a tap there rushes out boiling water which is also produced electrically. This is used for washing the tanks and other miskin verses when the operation Gfetainay wel Tnformd nie esnly "exacting, equipped with Nechnique. herewith ta evtielre Lentions of superiority, lite which und discredited
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