A Scientific Cow

Northland Age, Volume 28, Issue 14, 3 February 1928, Page 6

A Scientific Cow

The following extract from a recent issue ot the “Dominion” may be ot interest to our dairying friends A “cow” that gives new milk, skimmed milk, malted milk, cream, truft-flavoured milk, and ice cream to order: that never kicks or flicks its tail in the milkman’s eye ; that is never seasick, never dry, and that can be milked as well by a marine engineer in mid-Atlantic as by a milkman, is the remarkable “animal” taken on board the African and Eastern Trade Corporation’s steamer Nigerian before she sailed from Liverpool recently, This wonderful cow requires neither exercise nor grass, and she delivers milk of any degree of creai ilness and at any temperature to order: There are several of these automatic cows on ocean linns today. They are fed largely with dried milk and butter produced on Waikato pastures (says an exchange). All the “milkmaid” has to do is to give the machine —for such this wonderful invention is—a feed of milk powder, fresh butter, and a drink ot water, press a button and the cow does i the rest. The milk is as rich and I fresh as that from any dairy cow and no amount of rolling 011 the part of the ship will sour it or churn it into butter.