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Show LATEST FEEDER FOR CALVES Danish Woman Makes Improvement on Small Idea That Is Possible to Keep Clean. Anvone familiar with the, raining of .alvc known tlm dlttlcultitti In teaching teach-ing ttie calve to ill Ink. write J. M. Monrad of Denmark In Hoard's iHtlry-nian. iHtlry-nian. 1 iiut, having taught the calf to drink, ' the worry' over li tendency to drink too flint remains. "Il true, floating a little hay or straw In the milk may put , a brake on tld tendency, but in our, too bacteriology. wideawake (?) days, this plan necm oa at'racilve. In the latter part of the kImL'ii. last century, the LL-a of applying thejuiu- rlplo of tlm Infant's teed bottle wa firt BugKcstwl, I believe In Kngland (?) by Tucker, where un njiparatu was cold for th" purpone. It I lllu-traied lllu-traied In Sheldon's "Dairy Farmlug" , and consist of a solid, low cylindrical pull with a cover Inserted IiihIiL sev eral Inches down; in the center of this 1 a metal tube to which a rubber tube Is attached on the under side and a rubber liliple oil the uj.j.er side. Since then we have had many other, of which I mention the Small feeder (lSMi). a tin ran v, Ith Hat bnck. to bang on a wall with a tin ulpph) on which I the rubber litj'.le. Thl had the great advantage of only a short nipple to clean axid wa very coiiVi iiL-nt to tho calf, but had the drawback of baking milk; In 1V03 in Switzerland a wooden teat wa sug gested as being ealer to keep clean; In IS'Jl, Hoard's JJuiryiiiaa gave Calf Fdr. M premium the Spencer feeder, i Simple rubier tube to use In any pall ! J believe. In 1903. Dr. Ilea and O. II Manufacturing company returned t ihe nljiple and rubber tube but bac be arrangement Independent of th 1 fall, which Idea u elaborated It 1908 by IL Zapa and Plrochl of Italy i lut encumbered with valves, and nos ; Ml M. Spiled of Denmark returm , to the Small Idea aa follows: 1 ; On the pall bung on the wall Is a nip pie with a flat rim (see 1 In lllustra i tlon). attached to this by a closing , device and hinged similar to one o the kinds used on milk bottles (t J a un rl nipple with a flat rim (3 J to eorri.pond to the fixed nipple rln (1) and with a catch for the cloelnf : device (41, on thbj the rubber nlpjib ' (5) is placed. ! Iletween the two time 1 and 3 Ii placed a rubber dlajhragm (6) wit! I some small slits In It, so that whei closed It holds back the milk, bu . when th" (nlf suck the sill In th 1 rutdier ojien and let the milk through If thl jdan I a permanent stmcesi the objection to the "Small" sysien 1s done away with and we have at la I a calf feeder that I jwcslUo to ke" ' clean; but the question remain wh. th ' er In spite of all thl. It will be dom projicrly In everyday practlcn. And I cannot be denied that th re I a dan ger In utnlean feed-rs which may per haps after all be as gn at as that o the calves drinking too fast. |