CLEAN MILKING

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17997, 16 April 1930, Page 6

CLEAN MILKING

STERILISING MACHINE PARTS. TE RAPA MAN’S DEVICE. IMPROVING QUALITY OF CREAM. Cleanliness in the dairy is the first essential to a high grade cream. Without cleanliness in every detail of production—from the cow itself until the finished product is ready for sale, u high-grade article cannot be manufactured. Where many dairymen fall down on the matter of cream quality, is by reason of their inability to properly cleanse their milking utensils. The pipes and fittings of the milking machine harbour untold millions of deleterious germs unless a thorough system of cleansing is adopted. The problem hitherto has been to get an efficient system. This is only possible by putitng Ihe live steam through every usable part of the machine. Hitherto no practical method of doing this has been found. A solution of the difficulty has now been provided by Mr. R. G. Carrie, of Te Rapa, who has perfected a system of carrying live steam, at a very small cost and little trouble, throughout the whole machine milking system. This is by means of a small concrete boiler, which requires little firing and generates steam in a comparatively short time. With the assistance of a number of patent couplings, he is able to send a steady jet of live steam through the pipes, cups, tubes and, in fact through every part of Ihe machine it is possible for vapour to penetrate. The result is that after a few' minutes the whole of the parts are thoroughly sterilised and left beautifully sweet and clean. In Mr. Carrie’s own case, his cream grade jumped up remarkably after the first application of his device. So convinced is he of its efficacy that he has demonstrated it to the perfect satisfaction of high dairy officials. Yesterday he gave a demonstration at the Frankton saleyards, where lie had erected a temporary plant. The cost of the appliance is cheap and if adopted on every, farm, would result in a remarkable improvement in the quality of our dairy produce. 306