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Marion News-Tribune, 1910

Machine Not Complete Success

A successful milking machine, satisfactory in all points, should mean much to the dairy industry. At present the small quantity and poor quality of farm labor available in many sections make dairying there impracticable on a large scale, for with uncertain help, the farmer can keep only so many cows as he can handle alone when need arises. 

If a machine be perfected that will take the place of any considerable part of the necessary hand labor in caring for dairy stables, it will mark a long step in advance for dairying. The production of milk on many farms could then be raised from an incident to a business, and it is only as a business, carefully studied and properly managed, that dairying can be an economic success.

Machines are on the market that are at least mechanically successful -- that is, they do milk cows, but before the can be recommended without many qualifications, much more than this must be known.

The work must not only be done but to be considered successful, it must be done as well or better than it can be done by hand or more cheaply without decrease in quantity or lowering the quality of the milk and without immediate or remote ill effect upon the animals. 

The advent of these machines has placed on dairy investigators the duty of determining their good and bad points.

Indianapolis Star, 1910

Grind Your Grain

By  all means, grind grain for the dairy cow. She s a high-grade machine, and grain can be ground by gasoline engine or horsepower much cheaper than she can grind it for herself. She needs all her energy to produce the maximum of milk flow.

It is true for any animal at hard work that the grain should be fed in the most easily assimilated form, whether that animal be a dairy cow giving a large flow of milk or a horse at hard work.

Actual experiments indicated that grinding the grain results in an actual increase in the milk flow of something like 10 percent. It is a safe rule which Prof. Henry makes for dairy cows that wheat, rye, barley, kaffir corn and milo should always be ground, and that corn and oats should generally be ground. 

Democrat 4-27-1911

Dairies Graded Bad

Dairy conditions throughout the state have shown no improvement, according to the current report of the food and drug department of the State Board of Health. For March, the department reported inspections of 14 dairies, all of which were graded bad.

The department made a total of 1,075 inspections during the month and aside from the dairies, one establishment was graded bad. This was a restaurant. The entire list of hotels and restaurants show a high percentage of low grading, although considerable improvement was noted.

H.H. Barnard, state Food and Drug commissioner, will instruct the field men to give special attention to the dairies next month, under the amended Food and Drug Act, which gives the department added powers. The dairy situation is the most serious now confronting the department, says the Indianapolis News.