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VOL. LXI; 5 PU3LIC bTnT?AT?V | INDIANAPOLIS, NOVEMBER 24, 1906. NO. 47 MILKINQ MACHINESr" ~^ The Scarcity of Labor and Milking; Drudgery Soon to be Overcome. We are doubtless ou the eve of as great er greater advance in the dairy industry as that -which has marked its improvement in the adoption of cream separators. The milking machine, indeed, goes deeper into this problem than the separator does, for it is demonstrated already by their use that they secure absolutely pure milk, by avoiding contact of the milk with the air, dust and dirt of the dairy barn in milking, as we have before described in our articles on the milking machines in use. These machines now provide a quality of milk much higher and freer from bacteria than fixed by the hygiene and health rules requiring standard milk. With, a wider knowledge of advantages of the milking machines we shall soon have both absolutely pure milk, and freedom from hand-milking drudgery which has deterred so many from going into the dairy business, and made labor shy in dairy work. We give herewith another illustration of one of the milking machines heretofore alluded to in our columns, which is in use in munr dairies. It should be said in this connection that the highly nervous organization of a dairy cow is rarely appreciated as it should be. Ignorance of the sensitiveness of her nature causes farmers producing milk for the market much annoyance and loss every year. This element of loss is caused principally by the shrinkage in the flow of milk resulting from harsh treatment or sudden change in condition or handling. Slight changes in feed or care easily manifest themselves, which will result in a contraction of all the milk glands where an expansion is desired. In the natural process of removing the milk from the udder of the cow the conditions are in every way opposite to hand milking. Few people think of this when milking a cow though this may cause her to hold up her milk. The fault is not in the cow, but with the person doing the milking, who has in some way irritated the nerves that control the milk glands and thereby stopped the flow of milk. The expression that a cow "holds up" her milk, is therefore obviously erroneous, as more often it is caused by the milker, and not the cow. When a calf sucks its mother it takes but a part from one quarter at one time moving from one quarter to another a number of times at each meal. In hand milking two quarters are drawn at once the contact with the teat being eintirely different from the natural process making it necessary for the man to "break the cow in," or better to teach her to milk by hand, not only with her first calf, but often with subsequent freshening. People have become so accustomed to this "breaking in" process that they think little or nothing of it. It is a part of the routine of dairying, taking more or less time according to tho disposition of the cows. In the designing of a machine for milking cows to take the place of the hand process the manufacturers are obviously confronted with a difficult problem, very . much resembling the one which puzzled the first man who attempted to get milk from the cow for his use. It. undoubtedly discouraged him when he tried to imitate the calf, and after long thinking nnd laborious effort he succeeded in "breaking in" the cow, and in the hard task of educating himself to milk by hand. And y no one can milk successfully by hand without several months of practice, and even then there is a wide difference in milkers, aud far too many of them are and always will be poor hand milkers. So far is this true that the dairyman who wants to keep up the daily average of his cows avoids changing milkers as much as possible, for he knows that to change milkers will reduce the flow of milk very materially. He also knows that it is extremely difficult to bring the cows back to the original quantity. Of course he anathemizes the milker, but, as is always the case, the anathema returns on his own head, his men have felt the in- The process is artificial because all four quarters are simultaneously relieved, making it necessary for four distinct bunches of nerves to operate at once, where nature had provided that but one set should operate at a time, because the glands in a cow must be called upon to secrete the milk in a fraction of the time nature has provided, and because the teat- cups no matter of what material made are entirely different from the mouth of a calf. The apparatus as made when attached and ready for use has a soothing effect upon, the nerves of the udder, and the method of attaching to the cow such as cows wants a practical machine reducing the cost of production and enabling him to produce a better quality of milk which v/ill bring a higher price. Hand and Power Milking Machine. justice of the criticism knowing that it was owing as much to the sensitive nature of the cow, as to their fault, and we find less nnd less men willing to undertake the job of milking, ami endure the everlasting work twice a day with no change or let up. The most serious question confronting dairymen today is the question of good milkers. How many boys have left the farm on account of the milking? Bad stable conditions, unsanitary handling of milk, is the constant question of state and municipal legislation to correct. The source of milk supply when seen by consumers has often reduced sales. Milk is the only perfect feed, building up and restoring all parts of the body alike, and in these latter years this fact is better appreciated than ever before, but the quality and condition -of the milk has checked consumption and held the price down. To mitigate the present evils in the production of pure milk the milking machine can do more than all other agencies combined, as a properly constructed machine doubles and quadruples a man's capacity to milk, and the milk itself is pure and clean. Milk drawn with the machine will keep twice as long, nnd its bacteriological content is so low that practically all of the present trouble in handling pure milk is removed. Henc3 in the designing of a milking n< ichine the following principles are laid down, and absolutely carried out in its construction. Natural processes are imitated as closely as human ingenuity can devise. Machine milking is an artificial process, hence the cow must necessarily be "broken in" kindly, gently and deliberately. not only prevents the cow from kicking or moving about, but being in the least uneasy. Excessive suction is avoided. The attachment to the cow, or the teat-cups fit all cows. It is impossible to injure the teats or udder of the cow by the use of the apparatus as we noted it in use recently. The apparatus is constructed powerful enough to milk the hardest milker, and gentle enough so that it will not irritate the most sensitive or easiest milker. The machine is easily and quickly removed from one cow to another, and the teat-cups easily and quickly detached from the machine for cleansing. All parts of the aparntus which come in contact with the milk nre so constructed as that they can be easily aud thoroughly cleaned without taking apart, for no matter how well made any machine is an inexperienced person will often find difficulty in putting it back together in as good shape as an expert would, to say nothing of the time consumed in taking apart and assembling it. All parts are so simple as to be inexpensive and readily taken apart and assembled, and made so durable that with good care they will last for a number of years wihout any part wearing out, as it is a recognized axiom that all farm machinery should be so simple that if repairs or new parts are needed a farmer can do the work himself without the aid of a mechanic. All parts of the machine are made in duplicate so they can be easily replaced. The small dairyman with 10 or 15 cows, or the large dairyman with 50 or more The Paanimv of the Buffalo Editors Indiana Farmer: Spending nearly three years in California, on the 3d day of December, 1860, at 9 o'clock in the morning four other men and myself took passage on the Butter- field Stage and mail coach at San Francisco for St. Louis, Mo. Each of us had to put up. $200 in gold for our passage, and feed ourselves on the way; total, $260. The most of the way our fare was bread, coffee, bacon and beaus, with a change to deer, antelope, buffalo and o'possum. The route was from Sau Francisco to Los Angeles, through Arizona, aud New Mexico, to El Paso, Texas, over what then was called the Stake plains, by way of Ft. Belknap, and through the Cherokee, Creek and Choctaw nations to Ft. Smith, Arkansas to Van Buren, Springfield, and to Sedalia, Mo. There we left the stage coach and came by railroad to St. Louis. We arrived at Sedalia at 5 o'clock in the evening, and at 11 o'clock that night, Christinas eve, we were at the Planter's Hotel in St. Louis. We traveled by stage 135 miles every 24 hours, only stopping long enough to eat three meals each 24 hours, and to change horses. Now as to the buffalo. I read an article but a few days ago, in the Louisville Courier Journal, in regard to Ihe buffalo of the plains of Teams and up to Colorado, wherein the writer made an estimate of the number that these plains were capable of sustaining at that time; the estimate being based upon the number of stock raised there at present. His estimate was 40,000,000. Now, from what I saw one day on the plains of Texas I am not disposed to criticize his estimate as too great. We drove among the buffalo one morning at 8 o'clock, and drove through buffalo until 4 o'clock in the evening, making about 44 miles of buffalo, and just as far as the eye could see across the plains in all directions the earth was spotted with them. I have never made an. estimate of the number that I saw that day; I just give the sight as I saw it and let the other fellow make the calculation. Four years ago, last August and September, I took a trip of 52 days to the West, by way of Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Salt Lake, Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and back to Sacramento, Portland. Senttle and Spokane, over the Northern I'acific, to Chicago. What a change 42 years has made in that region I was once familiar with. Our western country has developed so much faster than the east. And yet there is room for many more to seek homes there. Richard Devenish. Washington Co. Ater the regular farm work is done this fall it wouldn't be a bad idea to go into the orchard and remove the dead; and blighted limbs from the trees; and a dressing of good barnyard manure around the trees will help to bring a better crop next season. It is claimed by experienced horticulturists that plum trees yielding an inferior quality of fruit can be benefited by a severe cutting back of the long branches, thus making them head in near the body of the tree.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1906, v. 61, no. 47 (Nov. 24) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA6147 |
Date of Original | 1906 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Title | Page 1 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
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Transcript | VOL. LXI; 5 PU3LIC bTnT?AT?V | INDIANAPOLIS, NOVEMBER 24, 1906. NO. 47 MILKINQ MACHINESr" ~^ The Scarcity of Labor and Milking; Drudgery Soon to be Overcome. We are doubtless ou the eve of as great er greater advance in the dairy industry as that -which has marked its improvement in the adoption of cream separators. The milking machine, indeed, goes deeper into this problem than the separator does, for it is demonstrated already by their use that they secure absolutely pure milk, by avoiding contact of the milk with the air, dust and dirt of the dairy barn in milking, as we have before described in our articles on the milking machines in use. These machines now provide a quality of milk much higher and freer from bacteria than fixed by the hygiene and health rules requiring standard milk. With, a wider knowledge of advantages of the milking machines we shall soon have both absolutely pure milk, and freedom from hand-milking drudgery which has deterred so many from going into the dairy business, and made labor shy in dairy work. We give herewith another illustration of one of the milking machines heretofore alluded to in our columns, which is in use in munr dairies. It should be said in this connection that the highly nervous organization of a dairy cow is rarely appreciated as it should be. Ignorance of the sensitiveness of her nature causes farmers producing milk for the market much annoyance and loss every year. This element of loss is caused principally by the shrinkage in the flow of milk resulting from harsh treatment or sudden change in condition or handling. Slight changes in feed or care easily manifest themselves, which will result in a contraction of all the milk glands where an expansion is desired. In the natural process of removing the milk from the udder of the cow the conditions are in every way opposite to hand milking. Few people think of this when milking a cow though this may cause her to hold up her milk. The fault is not in the cow, but with the person doing the milking, who has in some way irritated the nerves that control the milk glands and thereby stopped the flow of milk. The expression that a cow "holds up" her milk, is therefore obviously erroneous, as more often it is caused by the milker, and not the cow. When a calf sucks its mother it takes but a part from one quarter at one time moving from one quarter to another a number of times at each meal. In hand milking two quarters are drawn at once the contact with the teat being eintirely different from the natural process making it necessary for the man to "break the cow in," or better to teach her to milk by hand, not only with her first calf, but often with subsequent freshening. People have become so accustomed to this "breaking in" process that they think little or nothing of it. It is a part of the routine of dairying, taking more or less time according to tho disposition of the cows. In the designing of a machine for milking cows to take the place of the hand process the manufacturers are obviously confronted with a difficult problem, very . much resembling the one which puzzled the first man who attempted to get milk from the cow for his use. It. undoubtedly discouraged him when he tried to imitate the calf, and after long thinking nnd laborious effort he succeeded in "breaking in" the cow, and in the hard task of educating himself to milk by hand. And y no one can milk successfully by hand without several months of practice, and even then there is a wide difference in milkers, aud far too many of them are and always will be poor hand milkers. So far is this true that the dairyman who wants to keep up the daily average of his cows avoids changing milkers as much as possible, for he knows that to change milkers will reduce the flow of milk very materially. He also knows that it is extremely difficult to bring the cows back to the original quantity. Of course he anathemizes the milker, but, as is always the case, the anathema returns on his own head, his men have felt the in- The process is artificial because all four quarters are simultaneously relieved, making it necessary for four distinct bunches of nerves to operate at once, where nature had provided that but one set should operate at a time, because the glands in a cow must be called upon to secrete the milk in a fraction of the time nature has provided, and because the teat- cups no matter of what material made are entirely different from the mouth of a calf. The apparatus as made when attached and ready for use has a soothing effect upon, the nerves of the udder, and the method of attaching to the cow such as cows wants a practical machine reducing the cost of production and enabling him to produce a better quality of milk which v/ill bring a higher price. Hand and Power Milking Machine. justice of the criticism knowing that it was owing as much to the sensitive nature of the cow, as to their fault, and we find less nnd less men willing to undertake the job of milking, ami endure the everlasting work twice a day with no change or let up. The most serious question confronting dairymen today is the question of good milkers. How many boys have left the farm on account of the milking? Bad stable conditions, unsanitary handling of milk, is the constant question of state and municipal legislation to correct. The source of milk supply when seen by consumers has often reduced sales. Milk is the only perfect feed, building up and restoring all parts of the body alike, and in these latter years this fact is better appreciated than ever before, but the quality and condition -of the milk has checked consumption and held the price down. To mitigate the present evils in the production of pure milk the milking machine can do more than all other agencies combined, as a properly constructed machine doubles and quadruples a man's capacity to milk, and the milk itself is pure and clean. Milk drawn with the machine will keep twice as long, nnd its bacteriological content is so low that practically all of the present trouble in handling pure milk is removed. Henc3 in the designing of a milking n< ichine the following principles are laid down, and absolutely carried out in its construction. Natural processes are imitated as closely as human ingenuity can devise. Machine milking is an artificial process, hence the cow must necessarily be "broken in" kindly, gently and deliberately. not only prevents the cow from kicking or moving about, but being in the least uneasy. Excessive suction is avoided. The attachment to the cow, or the teat-cups fit all cows. It is impossible to injure the teats or udder of the cow by the use of the apparatus as we noted it in use recently. The apparatus is constructed powerful enough to milk the hardest milker, and gentle enough so that it will not irritate the most sensitive or easiest milker. The machine is easily and quickly removed from one cow to another, and the teat-cups easily and quickly detached from the machine for cleansing. All parts of the aparntus which come in contact with the milk nre so constructed as that they can be easily aud thoroughly cleaned without taking apart, for no matter how well made any machine is an inexperienced person will often find difficulty in putting it back together in as good shape as an expert would, to say nothing of the time consumed in taking apart and assembling it. All parts are so simple as to be inexpensive and readily taken apart and assembled, and made so durable that with good care they will last for a number of years wihout any part wearing out, as it is a recognized axiom that all farm machinery should be so simple that if repairs or new parts are needed a farmer can do the work himself without the aid of a mechanic. All parts of the machine are made in duplicate so they can be easily replaced. The small dairyman with 10 or 15 cows, or the large dairyman with 50 or more The Paanimv of the Buffalo Editors Indiana Farmer: Spending nearly three years in California, on the 3d day of December, 1860, at 9 o'clock in the morning four other men and myself took passage on the Butter- field Stage and mail coach at San Francisco for St. Louis, Mo. Each of us had to put up. $200 in gold for our passage, and feed ourselves on the way; total, $260. The most of the way our fare was bread, coffee, bacon and beaus, with a change to deer, antelope, buffalo and o'possum. The route was from Sau Francisco to Los Angeles, through Arizona, aud New Mexico, to El Paso, Texas, over what then was called the Stake plains, by way of Ft. Belknap, and through the Cherokee, Creek and Choctaw nations to Ft. Smith, Arkansas to Van Buren, Springfield, and to Sedalia, Mo. There we left the stage coach and came by railroad to St. Louis. We arrived at Sedalia at 5 o'clock in the evening, and at 11 o'clock that night, Christinas eve, we were at the Planter's Hotel in St. Louis. We traveled by stage 135 miles every 24 hours, only stopping long enough to eat three meals each 24 hours, and to change horses. Now as to the buffalo. I read an article but a few days ago, in the Louisville Courier Journal, in regard to Ihe buffalo of the plains of Teams and up to Colorado, wherein the writer made an estimate of the number that these plains were capable of sustaining at that time; the estimate being based upon the number of stock raised there at present. His estimate was 40,000,000. Now, from what I saw one day on the plains of Texas I am not disposed to criticize his estimate as too great. We drove among the buffalo one morning at 8 o'clock, and drove through buffalo until 4 o'clock in the evening, making about 44 miles of buffalo, and just as far as the eye could see across the plains in all directions the earth was spotted with them. I have never made an. estimate of the number that I saw that day; I just give the sight as I saw it and let the other fellow make the calculation. Four years ago, last August and September, I took a trip of 52 days to the West, by way of Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Salt Lake, Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and back to Sacramento, Portland. Senttle and Spokane, over the Northern I'acific, to Chicago. What a change 42 years has made in that region I was once familiar with. Our western country has developed so much faster than the east. And yet there is room for many more to seek homes there. Richard Devenish. Washington Co. Ater the regular farm work is done this fall it wouldn't be a bad idea to go into the orchard and remove the dead; and blighted limbs from the trees; and a dressing of good barnyard manure around the trees will help to bring a better crop next season. It is claimed by experienced horticulturists that plum trees yielding an inferior quality of fruit can be benefited by a severe cutting back of the long branches, thus making them head in near the body of the tree. |
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