Show I HORSE TROUGH IS SANITARY Device Shown In Illustration Will ProvIde Provide Provide Pro Pro- vide Horse With Clean and Individual Fountain By 3 ii W. W FITZPATRI K In the Scientific Scientific American It has been found that the horse trough has proven a prolific means of carrying Infection Hundreds of ol horses have taken glanders and nd all sorts Borts of things via that means Not fat that the horses touch the Iron part of the trough and leave germs there but simply sImP Y that a a healthy horse drinks Immediately after a a. diseased one and gets the germs spume etc I left In the water by the other The Idea suggests Itself that the horse be given a hygienic drinking fountain foun fountain tam tain as Is provided for us humans We cant can't expect a horse to put his mouth over a little stream shooting In the air but the evice that is roughly sketched herein will do the trick of giving the horse an Individual drinking fountain A is a drinking fount of sufficient size to hold a normal normal nor nor- mal drink for a horse and set high or low as deemed best for checked or unchecked horses It Is set upon a standard G that serves as a waste pipe Inside of this this Is a supply pipe E and a stopped rod F. F HH are perforated perforated per per- drains around a fountain to carry off the water that is slopped over and D Is a little dog fount that simply catches the waste from the overflow above At some point near the fountain where a horse has to t Sanitary Ho Horse e Trough place his front feet In order to drink from the fountain would be a platform plat form device J 1 not unlike a scale plat pint form Normally the stopper C Is in position D and the fount Is dry By Bya a simple system of levels etc when a horse approaches to drink he is bound to get his front feet on J 1 that yields sufficiently to operate the mechanism but not enough to bother o or fuss a horse which closes down stopper C and opens the valve in E B and as long as he stands there that valve Is open and the water is running run ning Wh When n he leaves that position the water Is closed off orr the stopper l rises and the fount Is empty of any residue water Each horse gets a drink of fresh clean water and the tank is flushed after every drink The Tha saving of ot water over ever the continuous running tank is also o an item in its favor Plus lt Is an anti freez ing fountain The water valve can be as In most hydrants well below freezing freez freeze ing and a self drainer er and there being being be be- ing no water left In the tank it Is a fount that can be kept In operation all winter And It would be a simple enough matter t to so BO protect J that that mechanism wouldn't necessarily fill with water and freeze |