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August 9, 1920

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 2 older comments, and then…
• Stuart said:

  Very docile and obliging cows. Try milking an untethered cow - usually, they just walk on leaving you and pail behind.

• Swordscookie said:

  Excellent photo but I suspect it was a bit staged? As Stu says milking in a field is likely to leave you sitting on your rear as the cow walks off looking for greener grass. It does show a few changes from present day farms though, such as the horns on the cows, you'd never see them today.

• Wiblick said:

  I think I see a spancel on the back left leg of the cow, hidden by the bucket on the other side, fettering would have made the staging of the photo a bit easier.

• Stuart said:

  Wiblick Well spotted. Never noticed it before!

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Stuart Me either! So thanks to Wiblick for spotting this...

Eight maids a'milking (one little maid)

from State Library of Queensland

• spelio said:

  Skinny cow during a drought or the Depression!

Eight maids a' milking (just one lovely maiden)

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Modern dairying would be impossible without milking machines. But it took a century after the first such machines were invented before they were widely adopted in Australia. For millennia, humans had milked cows and other animals by hand. In the 19th century, as mechanisation began to change agricultural practices, people started to apply their minds to the milking operation. The first milking machines were patented in 1838, says the Australian Bureau of Statistics. But, they add, it wasn’t until the late 1930s that milking by machine became the norm in Australia. It wasn’t through want of trying. Both overseas and in this country, numerous machines were tried and patents applied for. Many new patents were subsequently applied for using vacuum suction and, in 1895, the pulsator milking machine was invented. In 1897, Robert Kennedy and William Lawrence, an engineer from Glasgow, produced the Lawrence Kennedy milking machine which, in 1903, was improved by a Victorian dairy farmer, Mr A Gillies. The resulting LKG machine was widely used in Australia, although most dairy farmers continued to milk by hand until the 1930s. Source: australianfoodtimeline.com.au/milking-machines-in-australia/