AUTOMATIC COW-FEEDER

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16812, 2 June 1926, Page 10

AUTOMATIC COW-FEEDER

CHEAP AND EFFICIENT. BOON TO THE DAIRY FARMER. The fanner is always on tho alert for beneficial aids to his many ramifications, and a reminder is given that a call at a stand in the Root Section at the Waikato Winter Show tills year will amply repay him. This reward will come through an inspection of the Automatic Cow-feeder, which is the invention of Larking Bros., of Okato, New Plymouth. It may be stated at the outset that the New Zealand Cattle Cake and Oil Company thought so much of the invention that they gave over portion of their stand to the inventor of tho Automatic Cow-feeder for display purposes. The essential duty of this invention is the feeding of concentrated food to dairy cows, 'the invention has its efficiency of application in a run-through shed which contains the usual milking machine requisites. On opening the door the feed bucket automatically moves into the dummy, from which it automatically receives a charge of feed, which may bo from a double handfui upwards. Tho feed bucket then swings back Into the bail on Hie closing of ilic hail door. Tho Automatic Cow-feeder can he worked by hand with a hand attachment independent of tlie door. The invention is priced at between £5 and £0 for a factory machine, a figure which brings tho Automatio Cowfeeder within ready reach of the farmer. Tho inventor is hoping to make arrangements in tho near future with a firm to handle his patent. Tho patentee desires to intirnulo that ho is taking the names of persons desirous of becoming owners of these valuable contrivances.