Feeds Chickens By Phone

DES MOINES, Ia. - Henry Myers, superintendent of the Waseca telephone system, keeps chickens and feeds them by telephone.

This is how it is done: He has a box in the chicken house with a drop door in the bottom. In this he places corn, screenings, etc. The catch that holds the door in place is a sensitive affair and is connected with the telephone system.

When 4 p.m. arrives, Myers sticks in a plug and presses a button like the operator does when she rings a number. The catch on the feed box moves back, the door drops the feed falls to the floor and the chickens eat.

--The Alaska Citizen, Fairbanks, Alaska, May 8, 1911, page 3.