Milking machine
devised in the next thirty years, with the foot operated
Mehring machine being, perhaps, the ultimate in pre-
pulsator suction milkers.
• Two cows could be milked at the same time, using this
machine, with the operator sitting on it's bench, between
the cows, and working the foot levers to provide vacuum.
• The Mehring foot power machine was still marketed well
into the 20th century and many were sold. A fine example
was recently noted at one of the Brimfield shows, priced at
$400.
Pulsator
• The pulsator was first introduced in the "Thistle"
milker, using a steam driven vacuum pump.
While the Thistle machine presented problems
of sanitation, it proved an efficient milker.
• In Hoard's Dairyman, in 1898, a reviewer of the
Thistle machine demonstrated at the Hamburg
Exposition faulted the machine for its
intermittent flow, as observed in the glass tube
leading to the milk vessel. That reviewer was Dr.
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