The New Milking Machine.

Manawatu Herald, 16 January 1894, Page 2

The New Milking Machine.

Something more satisfactory about tbe milking machine Mr R. La ra hie, of Pihainu has shown us (ihe S ar) a letter he has received from Mr John Rennie, of Doyleston, Canterbury, from which we have been permitted to take the following extract : — " Now the milking machine is a success.it (the dairy) will be the biggest industry in the colony. I was at a trial of a milking machine at Reuben Withell's, which I considered a complete success. He has a machine fitted up for 10 cows. The air pump is driven by a water wheel, and the ten cows are all milked at the same time in 15 minutest with the greatest of ease. Withell's machine is much the same as the one you saw at Cunningham's, only there is a valve that closes as soon as the milk ceases to come. My word for it that they will never go back to the hand milking again any more than you would take the scythe in place of the reaper. Mr Watson is no new-fangled farmer, I and is about as critical a man as you

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slowly, with that subtle, growing sense, snch as you experience as you stand before the canvas of a master, the whole maje3feic panorama is unrolled before you. Suddenly there is an almost imperceptible thrill, someone announces thofc the wheel ha3 stopped, and as you look below you become aware that you have been lifted 250 feet into the air. Such is the description given in the j American edition of the kevieiv of Reviews. \

will meet in regard to milk or cows, and he has ordered a machine, §o you people with your water wheels need not hesitate a day. A lad can milk 40 cows an hour and not strain his wrists, and you Taranaki people are in for a good thing and an easy time in tho future." Mr Rennie will be known to old Canterbury people as a practical farmer, and also one of tho directors of the Agricultural College, and his testi mony is valuable. Mr Watson, too, is one of the most careful men to the colony with respect to cows and dairying.