THE "HARTNETT" MILKERS AT DOOKIE COLLEGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8453, 2 December 1907, Page 5

THE "HARTNETT" MILKERS AT DOOKIE COLLEGE.

The Government Dairy Expert, Mr R Crowe, has now completed his calculations of returns from cows, both hand and machine milked, at Dookie College, Melbourne, Victoria, for the year 1905-6. The report is a voluminous one, ivpd has been forwarded to Mr E. G. Duffus, Secretary for the Council, of Agricultural Education. Mr Crowe has also kindly supplied Messrs Holdenson and Nielson, Victorian agents for the "Hartnet," Milking Machine, with a copy, which can be inspected at their office, 621 Flinders Street, Melbourne, by " those / interested. The gist of the report is that, in 1906, the cows milked by the "Hartnett" machine gave an average of 12.6 per cent, better milk yield, with 11.91 per cent, better .butter fat yiold, than the cows returned under hand milking. According to this, a cow giving a return of £8 for 12 months' milk under hand milking would, when milked by the "Hartnfett ,l milkers; return £9 10s, an extra profit of £1 10s per cow, besides about 50 per cent, saving in 'working expenses. This is solid proof of the great superiority of machine over hand milking, and shows the necessity ' for all up-to-date farmers who' wish to make a success of dairying to lay aside the old methods and drudgery of hand-milking and go in for the more up-to-date scientific methods of machine milking. Mr Crowe concludes his report with the following:—"As far as the comparison between hand and machine milking is concerned, the result has come out in favour of the machine. —Your obedient servant (signed) Robert Cbowe." C. Dahl and Co., Ltd., . Palmerston N., Sole Agents, North Island.—Advt.