Museums
The Mower Museum
The mower museum is home to the largest collection of lawnmowers in the south east. A collection of over 50 mowers dating from 1800's. Added to this is a display of garden tools.
One of the most unusual mowers is a sit-on "swan-neck" which was manufactured in Maidstone.
The lawn mower was invented by Edward Budding in 1830. Budding worked in a cotton mill and he designed a machine to trim tufts off cloth, thinking laterally he decided that this could also be used to cut grass and replace the scythes and shears. Neither petrol or chain had been invented so Budding used wood and cast iron to produce a heavy cumbersome implement which only men were strong enough to handle.
Cows do not have teeth on their upper jaw. They wrap their tongues around grass and pull food into their mouths
A cow has 4 stomaches so that it can digest all the grass that it eats
Beef cattle are bigger bodied and shorter legged than Dairy Cows, who are bonier and have larger udders
A cow has to have a calf before she can produce milk