MILKING MACHINES

Hawera Star, Volume L, 20 December 1930, Page 7

MILKING MACHINES

SOME USEFUL HINTS. In warm weather farmers sometimes find difficulty in keeping the sterilising solution for the teat cups and tubes of their milking plant up to standard (says the “Napier Telegraph.”) A cheap and effective means for overcoming this obstacle will be found in a home-made preparation of salt bleaching powder or chloride of lime. This has been proved satisfactory , by agricultural experiment stations in America, which give the following directions for making up the solution : Mix the contents of a 12o&.- can of bleaching powder with one gallon of waiter in a small covered crock. At first enough water should he added to make a paste, and then the rest of the water added. The clear solution remaining after the mixture has been thoroughly stirred is the part to he used, and is known as' hypochlorite. One quart of this stock solution is then added to a strong brine made by placing 501 h of salt in a. 20-gallon crock filled with clean water to within six or 8i«. of the top. This hypochlorite and salt mixture is then ready to receive the milking machine tubes and teat cups between milkings. One pint of the hypochlorite should be added twice a week during the Summer, it is said, as the original water level and salt as needed. The entire solution should he renewed at once if dirt gets in; otherwise it niav he used as long as it remains clean.