MILKING MACHINES.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16812, 2 June 1926, Page 10

MILKING MACHINES.

THE “KNAPP” AT THE SHOW, Dairy farmers who visit the Waikato Winter Show should make a point of inspecting the “Knapp’’ Milking Machine, which is on a stand in the Main Annexe. In short, this machine provides the best means that human ingenuity can devise for securing a minimum cost in production. The “Knapp” affords to the milking Industry something very far' in advance of anything yet offered by its greatly increased efficiency, coupled with greatly decreased cost. The “Knapp” Milking Machine has no pulsator, no releaser, no vacuum tank, and no cumbersome vacuum pump. By tho “Knapp" the farmer, apart from the other points of efficiency with the machine, is able to determine readily the usefulness or otherwisa of any cow in the herd. Practical tests have shown that 28 cows can be milked by the “Knapp” at the Hush, of the season at ijd per day! A 4-cow plant can be worked by a 1 h.p. motor. It is essential for milking machinery to be taken down onee a week. There is no rust and no corroding with the “Knapp," in whiebi everything is made of gunmetal. Tho prices for the “Knapp” arc right I A 2-cow plant costs only £SS! Be surd j to inspeot the “Knapp" at tho Show.