THE "HARTNETT" MILKERS AT DOOKIE COLLEGE.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 279, 3 December 1907, Page 5

THE "HARTNETT" MILKERS AT DOOKIE COLLEGE.

The Government Dairy Expert, Mr B. Crowe, has now completed bis 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, and has been forwarded to Mr E. Gh Duffns, Secretary for the Council of Agricultural Education. Mr Crowe has also kindlysupplied Messrs Holdenson and Nielson, Victorian agents for the "Hartnett," Milking Machine, with a copy, whioh can be inspected at their office, £21 Flindersstreet, Melbourne, by those interested. The gist of the report is teat, 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 yield, than the cows returned under hand milking. According to this, a cow giving a return of J6B for 12 months' milk under hand milking would, when milked by the " Hartnett * milkers, return J69 10s, an extra profit of jei 108 per cow,beside» about 50 per cent, saving in working expenses. This is solid proof of the gteafr superiority of machine over haml-milking,. and shows the necessity for all up-to-date-farmers who wish to make a sucoesa of dairying to lay aside the old methodß and. drudgery of hand-milking and go in-.'for the more up to dite scientific methodfr-of machine milking.

Mr Crowe concludes Ms report with, the following:—"Aβ far as the comparison between hand and machine milking is concerned, the result has come out in favour of the machine.— lour obedient servant, (signed), Eobert Crowe,"

C. DablandCo.,Ltd., Palmerston North, Sole Agents, North Island.