Object Details
- Book Title
- American homes and gardens.
- Caption
- The milking of ten to fifteen cows an hour with hydraulic apparatus.
- Educational Notes
- Dairy farming has been part of agriculture for thousands of years. This picture from the early 1900s shows the use of a hydraulic milking machine. Prior to the invention of this machine, farmers would have to milk cows by hand which was a much slower process. Using the hydraulic milking machine, a farmer could save a lot of time and energy. The hydraulic milking machine was attached to the udders of a cow, and a gas engine would power the machine. Milking by hand, a farmer could milk 10 to 15 cows each hour. However, as the photo shows, if a farmer used a hydraulic milking machine, they could oversee multiple milking machines at once. After one cow was milked, the machine could then be rotated to the next cow for milking. This allowed for maximum efficiency of the machine, and rather than milking only 10 to 15 cows per hour, the farmer could milk many more.
- 1911
- Publication Date
- 1905-1915
- Image ID
- SIL-americanhomesgar81911newy_0615_crop
- Catalog ID
- 182094
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Type
- Photographic prints
- Publication Place
- New York
- Publisher
- Munn and Co.
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- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Farm life
- Dairy cows
- Milking
- Farming
- Language
- English
- Record ID
- silgoi_68334
