The Rotolactor

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I remember visiting the Rotolactor in action when I was a kid in the 1960s. There was a glassed-in booth where you could look down on the merry-go-round of milked cows, and there was a machine there where you could get chocolate milk. The Rotolactor I recall had fewer stalls than the ones in these photos.
I’ve seen the grave of Elsie/You’ll Do Lobelia, before it was moved.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/rotolactor-milks-50-cows-in-12-minutes/

http://walkergordononline.com/history.asp

To my surprise, my internet search turned up a copycat in New South Wales, Australia, which apparently was copied from the one in New Jersey, and still exists!

http://www.camdenparkhouse.com.au/rotolactor.htm

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Thank you for sharing these! Since I work for an ag school and we recently installed a state-of-the-art milking parlor (which does NOT rotate!), I find these absolutely fascinating.

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But won’t the cows get dizzy? And don’t they get tired of eating chocolate to make all that chocolate milk every day??

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I remember as a child being dragged off to see it. I would have been about 6 or 7, I suppose. I recall that it was a stinking hot day, probably during the January school holidays some time.