AN IDEAL DAIRY.

Waikato Independent, Volume XI, Issue 908, 31 May 1910, Page 5

AN IDEAL DAIRY.

WITH A KIDD MILKIN3 MACHINE.

The principle upon which the milking shed at the Broadmeadows dairy has been erected makes for the very best results from all points. r lhe floors are cf concrete, the shed spacious and well built, the drainage perfect and the system upon which the cows are bailed and released about the most effective that could be designed. As a result the managers of the dairy, Messrs Richmond and Holmes, are enabled to handle about seventy cows per hour without any great hustle, and as they have their own separating apparatus the/are in a position to secure the cream and return the skim milk to the calves and pigs in record time. Dairying under such conditions is robbed of all the drudgery that is usually associated with it, and it is probable that at no distant date the whole of the dairies in the Waikato will have arrived ac a stage similar to that of Broa.imeadows. The whole dairy is clean, cool and convenient, and is kept in such a thorough manner that it might be copied with advantage. During the pasc season the firm milked between seventy and eigh.y cows, but the herd will be 12u strong when the next year's operations, commence. Messrs Richmond and Holmes have installed a Ridd milking machine, and 13 that connection they have certainly wade no mistake. Un Friday last they put through seventy cows in an hour, ;.nd the machine worked perfectly throughout. The mechanism of the Ridd is remarkably simple—as a milker it gives just about perfect results.' All classes of cows were milked on i'Liday, from those in full profit to the "stripper" with another week to go before being paddocked until next season. An examination of the teats showed them to be in first-class order, and the cows never lifted a foot during ti.e process of milking. In answer to a question Mr Richmond expressed the opinion that it was impossible to find a taalt with the Ridd machine, and that lie would be pleased to allow any dairy farmer to look through the shed whilst the machine was working. "Every [ 'ow in the herd is milked well, and the shippings are not worth bothering about," he remarked. In a great number of instances throughout the Waikato the Ridd "teat cups" have been fitted to other makes of machines, with most gratifying results. The great point about "the Ridd cup, apart from its undoubted milking qualities, is the fact that when once attached to the teat it will not fall off until released by tne operator. During last season one hundred and fifty li:dd plants were installed, and at the present time no less than thirty orders ha/e been placed for plants for the coining season by Waikato dairy farmers, half of which will be located in territory surrounding Cambridge. , The Hamilton Hardware Company aro agents for the Ridd machine throughout the Waikato, and they are pushing business, knowing that they have something good to sell. Those intending to instal milking machines sn mid certainly make a point of calling upon them before definitely deciding.