{"id":109,"date":"2010-06-08T14:29:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T04:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/menangle.com.au\/?p=109"},"modified":"2012-05-02T12:41:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T02:41:04","slug":"rotolactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Rotolactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"rotalactor 1974\" src=\" http:\/\/www.menangle.com.au\/images\/Rotolactor%201974.jpg\" alt=\"rotolactor\" width=\"496\" height=\"496\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rotolactor 1974<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1952 Rotolactor, \u201cThe Rotary Milking Machine\u201d<\/span><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1980 was declared a National Tourist attraction by the Macarthur  District Gazette<\/li>\n<li>It was the second of this design and size in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Made from brick and stainless steel it had walls of glass letting in  natural night by day and lights for night milking.<\/li>\n<li>It was 24 metres in diameter and was capable of milking 2500 cows  twice a day.<\/li>\n<li>Each cow was milked in about 7 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>They entered and left at the same point and as they travelled around  being milked, they ate.<\/li>\n<li>It required a small staff of nine to operate milking 300 cows per  hour.<\/li>\n<li>It was an icon in Australia and significant in that it shows the  scale and development of dairying in Menangle.<\/li>\n<li>Tourists and school children visited weekdays and weekends to  experience the \u201cspecial milk\u201d and see the state of the art milking  process and production.<\/li>\n<li>Registered Trade Marks were \u2018Camden Vale\u2019, \u2018Cowpasture\u2019, \u2018Laurel\u2019,  and \u2018Milk with the golden cap\u2019, that were used to name produce from the  Dairy, Agriculture and Orchard producer, Camden Park Estate Company.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BHP state \u201cIt (The Menangle Area) provides the opportunity to   interpret the history of dairy farming and production in the region for a   period encompassing 150 years of development.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The Rotolactor operated until 1983.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1952 Rotolactor, \u201cThe Rotary Milking Machine\u201d In 1980 was declared a National Tourist attraction by the Macarthur District Gazette It was the second of this design and size in the world. Made from brick and stainless steel it had walls of glass letting in natural night by day and lights for night milking. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-menangle-rotolactor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}