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we had a big barn and stalls for 6 horses, we always had 2 or 3 of our own, so Dad rented Helz and Zerweck 2 stalls for a team of horses, we had to have a man to feed and clean them, they had to be fed at 4 o’clock in the morning, a driver would leave the brewery with a load of beer, get to our place about 6 o'clock change horses and go out to Springfield, Rosedale, Valley Stream, he would return about 2 o'clock in the afternoon and go back to the brewery with the horses he left in the morning, several times the man over slept and the horses were not fed in time so Dad made a machine to feed them. He built two hoppers on the second floor of the barn directly over the stalls of the brewery horses, he had a trap door under each hopper which led to the feed bins, to open the trap doors he had an alarm clock fastened to the side