Alan Sharp, a dairy heritage researcher in New Zealand, needs your help! He is looking for people who might have information on families in the United States who were among the first to use elevated platform milking systems. Do you know of someone? Email Alan at herringbone@hnpl.net to share your information.

I am trying to locate people with knowledge, of the where abouts, of the pioneering families who had enough faith to experiment with the introduction of elevated platform milking systems. From a 1957 HOARD”S DAIRYMAN article I have been able to target a family in New York State and a family in Indiana, but America is a very big place and I require a whole lot more contacts, to put a human face and photos to the 60 + patents that I have been studying. Being 40 + years since the HERRINGBONE explosion of the 1960’s time is running out.

With the assistance of the Massey University Archives in New Zealand, and Steven Larson, Managing Editor of Hoards Dairyman, my DAIRYING HERITAGE research is well on the way to finding the first dairy farming families, in America, to experiment with my Father’s HERRINGBONE system of milking cows. The Massey 1955 HERRINGBONE, being the shed that gained international recognition, for the revolutionary milking system.