THE "HARTNETT" MILKERS AT DOOKIE COLLEGE.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 280, 4 December 1907, Page 4

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, and 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 " Hartnett," Milking Machine, with a copy, which ran be inspected at their office, 521 Flindersetreet, Melbourne, by those interested. The gist of the report is toat, in 1906, tbe 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 JBB for 12 months' milk under hand milking* would, when milked by the "Hartnett' milkers, return £9 10s, an extra profit of JBIIOB per cow, besides about 50 per cent, saving ia working expensos. This is solid proof of the great superiority of machine over hand-milking, and shows the necessity for all up-to-date fanners 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 dite 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.—iour obedient servant, (signed), Robebt Crowe." C. Dahl and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, Sole Agents, North Island.