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Almanac: The automatic cow milker

On November 13, 1930, the dairy industry experienced a genuine turn-around, for that was the day Walker Gordon, an experimental dairy farm in Plainsboro, N.J., inaugurated the "Rotolactor" - a rotating platform to mechanically milk cows. Jane Pauley reports.
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