WHAT A DAIRY!

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 240, 11 May 1933, Page 2

WHAT A DAIRY!

Described as the world's fanciest dairy by the New Yorker, a dairy fashioned in U.S.A. by 11. \V. .letters, president of the Walker Gordon Milk Supply Company. i.ilvm-Js vi.-5t..r: from various court; i. - in she world The cows me Constantly indoors, an ,| all fodder is ground, dehydrated, compressed and fed to them in pellet form. Some of the herd are fed irradiated yeast powders, and are so caused to produce a special milk containing eight limes the usual amount of Vitamin D. Three times daily each cow becomes a passenger on the Jeffers Rotolactor, a slow motion merry go round arrangement there to be bathed and milked. Specialists attend to her all along the line. One man does nothing but gently squirt water at 90deg F. on passing udders all day long. The milking platform moves at 1& feet per minute. There are 50 stalls; the cows stand facing in. Further on stands an udder dryer drawing sterilised towels from a tall glass case. He deftly accomplishes the 19 motions which efficiency studies have shown achieve maximum drying with manimum effort, and then throws the towel down a laundry chute. Next is the hip and tail washer. and beyond,him the dryer, who works with a hose that wafts warmed anon the cow's rear. Beyond, clad likewise all 'm white, are grooms aad masseurs, and after that a medical lnspccC The cows are now about a third of the way around and ready to be milked. Two men hook them into milking machines; three others farther along unhook them and complete the final 'phase of milking, the. "stripping" by hand, to obtain the last lew ounces of milk, which are discarded. Finally, there is a man who gently drives cow after cow onto a tiled runway back to her feeding stall.