What are Dairy Farmers Doing to Maintain Farm Income?

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28701, 26 September 1958, Page 5 (Supplement)

What are Dairy Farmers Doing to Maintain Farm Income?

New Zealand dairy farmers are deeply disturbed by the low prices that will be paid for butterfat and are seeking ways and means to maintain farm income.

Although farm spending must now be more carefully controlled than before, all farmers who take the long tern* view realize that efficient time saving equipment is indispensable if they are to diversify their farming activity.

Opinions will differ from one district to another as to what form diversification should take, but there can be no doubt, that in every case time saved in the cow-shed can be put to profitable use elsewhere. More than ever before the advantages of fast, efficient milking are vital to dairy farmers’ prosperity. In many sheas as much as an hour a day is being saved in milking time by the use of MacExyan pulsomatic milking machines. This is an hour a day to devote to other revenue making activities cropping, irrigating, cultivating. There are many features which have made the Mac Ewan milker first choice of farmers who have time saving uppermost in mind. Fast flow milking is the result of proper designing and attention to detail in manufacture.

Mac Ewan Super Vacuum Pumps run more efficiently, provide more generous reserves of vacuum and have been proved against other types in Ruakura tests.

Mac Ewan pulsators have made, mechanical drives obsolete and by using a clean, air driven system unaffected by weather and by wear have eliminated stoppages, breakdowns and adjustments. The means of adjusting pulsator speeds—if so desired are still retained, of course, but once set by the user Mac Ewan pulsators remain constant and accurate in operation. For herringbone sheds no other system is so suitable. The elimination of drive shafts and pulleys simplifies layout, removes apparatus dangerous to the operator and eliminates oil slicks dangerous to animals. Simple cleaning of polished stainless steel surfaces no less than the features of pneumatic operation has made the Mac Ewan milker a popular

choice with dairymen. Possibly no milking machine development of recent years has earned more approval than the revolutionary design of the Mac Ewan releaser and the use of polished stainless steel in its construction.

However, to produce a fine milker is not in itself enough to warrant the confidence of the dairy farming industry. Honest advice and efficient service are also necessary. Mac Ewan field representatives are equipped with air-flow meters designed by Ruakura for the special purpose of testing milking machine efficiency. Their plant testing service costs nothing, nut under today’s conditions can mean much to the farmer anxious to cut down shed time for other urgent jobs.

Whatever plans may be made by my farmer for maintaining income—-

whether it be by time saving in the shed to permit other activities, oi by increasing butterfat production—the service and advice of the "man from MacEwans” is available in that distr