Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — Machina to Milk Cows. [ARTICLE]

Machina to Milk Cows.

A milking machine lias been invented in Scotland. It Is said to work perfectly. It is known as the “Thistle,” aud an English farm paper savs of it: “The most successful milking machine yet invented was recently shown at the Darlington fair, where it attracted more attention than any other novelty on exhibition. The machine has been so thoroughly tested by experts that It Is now considered to be almost perfect, and it lias given so much satisfaction as to warrant the erection of large works for the manufacture of tin- machinery, its construction is bused on the principle of suction produced by vacynui iu a teat cup, which, pressed against the teat of a cow. extracts the milk, which is carried off to a receiving pull. Willie the teat is drained of its milk air enters the cup. allowing the former pressure to relax, and the teat is again lilh*d with milk from the udder. Vacuum is once more created in tinteat cup, which again collapses, pressing out the milk into the tube, and it then pusses, to be received as before. The exhaustion is, of course, effected by means of an air pump, which cun be worked by tin- motive power most convenient.”