THE RIDD MILKER

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 296, 5 July 1933, Page 3

THE RIDD MILKER

Among the exhibits at this year's show is one that should prove interesting to dairyf armors; this is the Ridd Milking Machine with something entirely new in Teat Cups. The main feature of these new " rubber hand cup:-!" is the protected air circulation owing 1o the design of the mouthpiece. The air circulates right down past the teat, and proven;;, congestion besides cooling tho icat. The inflation is moulded to from the top of the teat down out not over the point of the teat. It milks by squeeze and -not by (-.action. It is easily adjusted to take up :i;uy slackness in the Clip, case. The small amount of strappings left prove that it is congenial to the cow. Another interesting feature is a Milk Detector over each bail. The Ridd Company, Ltd., has been in business for more than 30 years and all its resources and experience are concentrated on just one thing —the selling and servicing of a practical milker. Single minded devotion to its one job—the production of the most practical milker that can be built—has put the Ridd Company today in the strongest position it has ever held. Strongest in the excellence of its product—the Ridd Milker. Strongest in the confidence of the public. Strongest in stability which is the keystone of permanence in any business. That Mr. Ambrose Ridd, of Whipuku', Taranaki, N.Z., is undoubtedly the founder of the milking machine, no honest minded person who is conversant with the facts will for a moment deny. It must be remembered that, unlike all other machines, the milking machine has to operate on a live animal and therefore, the nervous system and the milk: producing system of the dairy cow had to be specially studied. for no machine which does not work hand in hand with Nature could possibly be considered.

After years of experimenting with the sucking type of teat cup, Mr. Ridd decided that it was not practical, and would lend to ru'in the milk yield of the dairy herd. He was more convinced of this than ever, when he destroyed three cows which had been milked for some four seasons by the sucking machine. Mr. Ridd had the udders and teats of these cows split open, and this disclosed the fact thai the membrane or lining of the milk duct, together with certain muscular tissue, had been broken down and destroyed by the harmful suction, and this meant that a few'generations of this sort of thing would eventually weaken the mammary system of the cow, which for generations the handmilker had been building up and strengthening. What the Company claims the Ridd Milker can do is borne out by facts:

(a) The Association record of a Ngarua herd of 116 cows which is milked with a G-cow Ridd Plant with Standard Cups, is a butterf.-u average of 3841 b per cow for 281 days' milking. This is the highest, for the Auckland territory, of a total of 120,000 cows under test. (b) In the April issue of the N.Z. Dairy Exporter and Farm Exporter the Veterinary Surgeon to North Taranaki Farmers' Union says: "It is essential that the farmers know that too great a vacuum or too high a pulsation speed can be fruitful causes of trouble. Other causes are milk stagnation which is due chiefly to incomplete milking, inexperience, lack of skill and incomplete stripping, in fact irritation due to too much stripping and too little milking." The vacuum recommended for the Ridd Milker is 12/13 inches and a pulsation speed of 35/38.