FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1921, Page 2

FARM AND DAIRY.

Our Waitoitoi correspondent writes:— ; As milk cooling is becoming more general every season, the following simple and inexpensive device for preventing cans from overflowing, invented by Mr. J. M. Kerr, of Brooklyn, may be of interest to dairy farmers: —A piece of half, round 3in. tinned spouting about 18in. long, and open at both ends, is suspended by wiring it on an even balance directly below the milk outlet at the bottom of the cooler. On the lower side of each end of this, and not more than an inch from the end, ia soldered a flat tin loop about half an inch long, which will just carry a piece of 'baling wire. From each of these loops at a right angle is hung a float made from a small oil can. to which is soldered a short piece of baling wire just sufficient to allow that, when the milk can is full, the float, with its wire attachment, will raise that end of the spout to rather more than level. This will turn the flow of milk from a full can at either end of the spout to an empty one at the other as required, provided that the float has been left hanging inside the empty can awaiting its turn to come into action as the other can fills. The danger of overflow is thus removed, as each full can has only to be replaced by an empty one by whoever is in charge.