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and summer. But the edicts of labor saving are against 

 this diet, as well as somewhat against the use of the 

 fresh scraps from the butchers' shops, and chandlers' 

 greaves, for the former must be chopped, and the latter 

 are pressed in cakes so solid as to need considerable 

 preparation before being used. The supplanting of the 

 village butcher* by the big packing house, moreover, 

 makes it impossible to get chandlers' scrap cake in many 

 localities, while the feasibility of feeding the packing 

 house tankage, which takes its place, has not as yet been 

 sufficiently demonstrated. For one thing, it is sold in a 

 perfectly dry state and finely ground, so that it keeps 

 well and can be fed with very little labor. 



