MAKING DAIRY FARMING FASHIONABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18542, 12 April 1930, Page 15 (Supplement)

MAKING DAIRY FARMING FASHIONABLE.

Writing in the column “A Casual Glance”, in “The Sydney Mail”, Hector Macquarrie makes the following observation: “I heard of an interesting invention the other day which should makes dairy farming more fashionable. A container is carefully strapped to the back of a cow, who must never be allowed to wander in paddocks with lowbranched trees. Rubber tubes pas 6 from the container to the udders, to which are attached milking machine cups. Two reinforced rubber pumps are fitted, one near the foreleg of the cow and the other near her jaws. As the cow walks, the leg-pump gently forces what milk there is into the container; but it automatically goes out of action when she reclines. Then the jaw pump takes its turn while the cow chews her cud. Seductive food is made ready for the cow at the hours of six (p.m. and a.m.), and left inside a small enclosure with a low arched entrance. A hook attached to the arch automatically grips the container and pours the milk into a greater container, the beginning of a pipe line leading to the separator. As the cow leaves the enclosure the container automatically drops into its place, and the useful circle continues.”