CATTLE FEED RACK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 246, 17 October 1928, Page 21

CATTLE FEED RACK.

A correspondent lias asked for a sketch of a cattle feeder for the paddock which will bold a fair amount, and keep the animals, in comfort daring cold winter nights, without waste of ladder. Fig" o 1 is designed of sawn timber. The fraan

is 6ft wide, Gft high, and Sft long, built on runners, to be easily moved about the yard. The pickets are Oft long, so that they project 18in to 20in above the top of the, franre. Th« p 'ket frame is open at the bottom about 18id, to let the hay down on to the A-shaped elevated divider in the centre of the floor, which helps to distribute it with n reach of the calves. The tight floor is boarded round with a rim of 4 x 2 to prevent Waste of the finer particles of grass., hay, or lucerne hay. It may be boarded up higher to make of the lower floor a feeding trough for grain or silage. Should a [cover be thought necessary, the end posts

may be made higher to carry the roof, the hay being then filled in through the 'gable ends. If the present top bar on the end posts were made to swing it Would facilitate filling the rack. Figure 12 shows a feed rack of a bush type for I feeding lucerne, etc., to sheep. It is Oft [long, 3ft to the top bar, and the ! slats are 4£w apart. In the sketch, for '"the sake of clearness, the open sparwork is shown only on one side and one end. [ Some dairy farmers do not like the overhead racks, and might prefer the bu&lr ; rack even for cows.—"The Australasian."

Big teams of good horses are doing a great deal to oust tractors in America, Canada, and to a great extent, in Australia. A writer in an American farm jonrnal is emphatic in his declaration I that tractor* pack and damage the toil, while horses fertilise and ~ benefit it,